In situ microscopy of the self-assembly of branched nanocrystals in solution

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Sutter, Eli ^a   Sutter, Peter ^a   Tkachenko, Alexei V ^b   Krahne, Roman ^c   De Graaf, Joost ^d   Arciniegas, Milena ^c   Manna, Liberato ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOMER; NANOCRYSTAL;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NUCLEATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REAL TIME; SOLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ENTROPY; FORCE; GROWTH; IMAGING; MODEL; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

EID: 84962708686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11213     Document Type: Article

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