Linking experiment and theory for three-dimensional networked binary metal nanoparticle-triblock terpolymer superstructures

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Li, Zihui ^a   Hur, Kahyun ^b   Sai, Hiroaki ^b   Higuchi, Takeshi ^c   Takahara, Atsushi ^c   Jinnai, Hiroshi ^c   Gruner, Sol M ^a,b   Wiesner, Ulrich ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY METAL NANOPARTICLE; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GOLD; NANOPARTICLE; PLATINUM; POLYMETHACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; TERPENE;

CATALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GOLD; NANOPARTICLE; PLATINUM; POLYMER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHIRALITY; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMERIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; GOLD; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOPARTICLES; PLATINUM; POLYMETHACRYLIC ACIDS; POLYSTYRENES; TERPENES;

EID: 84946737780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4247     Document Type: Article

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