Three-dimensional controlled growth of monodisperse sub-50 nm heterogeneous nanocrystals

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Liu, Deming ^a   Xu, Xiaoxue ^a,b   Du, Yi ^c   Qin, Xian ^d   Zhang, Yuhai ^e   Ma, Chenshuo ^a   Wen, Shihui ^a,b   Ren, Wei ^a,b   Goldys, Ewa M ^a   Piper, James A ^a   Dou, Shixue ^c   Liu, Xiaogang ^d,e   Jin, Dayong ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANION; LANTHANIDE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOSHELL; OLEIC ACID;

ANION; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISPERSION; GROWTH REGULATION; MOLECULE; NANOFABRICATION; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84954148297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10254     Document Type: Article

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