Exotic supported CoPt nanostructures: From clusters to wires

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-115

  Barcaro, Giovanni ^a   Ferrando, Riccardo ^b   Fortunelli, Alessandro ^a   Rossi, Giulia ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nanoparticles and nanostructures

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; NANOPARTICLES; WIRE;

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; EXOTIC PHASIS; GASPHASE; INTERFACIAL SEGREGATION; MANY-BODY; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; MGO(1 0 0); PECULIAR MORPHOLOGY; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SMALL SIZE;

COBALT;

EID: 85013944524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz900076m     Document Type: Article

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