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Synthesis and Catalytic Performance of Gold Intercalated in the Walls of Mesoporous Silica
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Effect of composition on the catalytic properties of mixed-ligand-coated gold nanoparticles
Anirban Ghosh1, Soubir Basak, Benjamin H Wunsch
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|July 12, 2011
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