Inherent Size Effects on XANES of nanometer metal clusters: Size-selected platinum clusters on silica

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 361-374

  Dai, Yang ^a   Gorey, Timothy J ^a   Anderson, Scott L ^a   Lee, Sungsik ^b   Lee, Sungwon ^b   Seifert, Soenke ^b   Winans, Randall E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PLATINUM; SILICA; WAVE FUNCTIONS; X RAY ABSORPTION; X RAY ABSORPTION NEAR EDGE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY SCATTERING;

CLUSTER SIZES; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; LOW ENERGY ION SCATTERING; METAL CLUSTER; OXIDATION STATE; PLATINUM CLUSTERS; SMALL CLUSTERS; X-RAY ABSORPTION NEAR-EDGE STRUCTURE;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

EID: 85020188210     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b10167     Document Type: Article

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