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Fabrication, Densification, and Replica Molding of 3D Carbon Nanotube Microstructures
Published on: July 2, 2012
Synthesis of square gadolinium-oxide nanoplates
1Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. cao@chem.ufl.edu
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|June 17, 2004
Abstract:
In this paper, we report a colloidal synthesis of high-quality, square, plate-shaped Gd2O3 nanocrystals. These nanoplates are single crystalline with a thickness of the Gd2O3 unit-cell edge length, approaching the lower limit of crystal growth.
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