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Nature Materials 6, 716 - 718 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat2008

Nanoparticle crystallinity: Is perfect better?

Gregory V. Hartland1

  1. Gregory V. Hartland is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
    e-mail: ghartlan@nd.edu


A synthetic method of producing metal nanoparticles of chosen crystallinity can help us understand how crystal defects affect their physical and chemical properties.

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