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Controlling structure and morphology of CoPt nanoparticles through dynamical or static coalescence effects

J Penuelas1, P Andreazza, C Andreazza-Vignolle

  • 1Centre de Recherche sur la Matière Divisée, UMR 6619 Université d'Orléans & CNRS, 1 bis, rue de la Férollerie, 45071 Orléans Cedex, France.

Physical Review Letters
|June 4, 2008
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