A synthetic strategy for carbon nanospheres impregnated with highly monodispersed metal nanoparticles

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Yang, Tianyu ^a   Ling, Huajuan ^b   Lamonier, Jean François ^c   Jaroniec, Mietek ^d   Huang, Jun ^b   Monteiro, Michael J ^a   Liu, Jian ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST SELECTIVITY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GOLD; HYDROGENATION; IRIDIUM; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSPHERES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; PRECIOUS METALS; RUTHENIUM; SILVER; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

BIMETALLIC NANOPARTICLES; CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES; CORE SHELL PARTICLES; HOMOGENEOUS DISPERSIONS; HYDROGENATION REACTIONS; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; N-DOPED MESOPOROUS CARBONS; SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84973917520     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2015.145     Document Type: Article

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