Ultrasmall Cu3N Nanoparticles: Surfactant-Free Solution-Phase Synthesis, Nitridation Mechanism, and Application for Lithium Storage

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 8282-8288

  Deshmukh, Rupali ^a   Zeng, Guobo ^a   Tervoort, Elena ^a   Staniuk, Malwina ^a   Wood, David ^a,b   Niederberger, Markus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ANODES; BYPRODUCTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CHEMICAL PATHWAYS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRIES (GC-MS); LITHIUM STORAGES; MATERIALS SYNTHESIS; ONE-STEP REACTIONS; ORGANIC REACTION; REACTION MECHANISM; REACTION PATHWAYS;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84951741056     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03444     Document Type: Article

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