The surface structure of silver-coated gold nanocrystals and its influence on shape control

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Padmos, J Daniel ^a   Personick, Michelle L ^b   Tang, Qing ^c   Duchesne, Paul N ^a   Jiang, De En ^c   Mirkin, Chad A ^b   Zhang, Peng ^a,d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; GOLD; NANOCRYSTAL; SILVER; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GOLD; SHAPE; SILVER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL BINDING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ADSORPTION; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR MODEL;

ADSORPTION; CHLORIDES; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SILVER;

EID: 84946031412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8664     Document Type: Article

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