Toward Ending the Guessing Game: Study of the Formation of Nanostructures Using in Situ Liquid Transmission Electron Microscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 5051-5061

  Ngo, Thao ^a   Yang, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUCLEATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

II-VI SEMICONDUCTOR; MONODISPERSED PARTICLES; NON-AQUEOUS SYNTHESIS; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REAL-TIME RECORDING; SELECTED EXAMPLES; VIABLE SOLUTIONS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84952672864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02210     Document Type: Article

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