Fan, Z., Bosman, M., Huang, Z., Chen, Y., Ling, C., Wu, L., Akimov, Y. A., Laskowski, R., Chen, B., Ercius, P., Zhang, J., Qi, X., Goh, M. H., Ge, Y., Zhang, Z., Niu, W., Wang, J., Zheng, H., & Zhang, H. (2020). Heterophase fcc-2H-fcc gold nanorods. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 3293. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17068-w
Fan, Zhanxi ; Bosman, Michel ; Huang, Zhiqi et al. / Heterophase fcc-2H-fcc gold nanorods. In: Nature Communications. 2020 ; Vol. 11, No. 1.
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Fan Z, Bosman M, Huang Z, Chen Y, Ling C, Wu L et al. Heterophase fcc-2H-fcc gold nanorods. Nature Communications. 2020 Dec 1;11(1):3293. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17068-w