Stability Criteria of Fullerene-like Nanoparticles: Comparing V2O5 to Layered Metal Dichalcogenides and Dihalides
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
2.1. NIF-V2O5 characteristics and formation mechanism
2.2. Post-reaction treatment
2.3. Comparison of seaming in IF and INT
3. Experimental Section
3.1. Laser ablation
3.2. Post-reaction treatment
3.3. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Supplementary File 1Acknowledgements
References and Notes
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Levi, R.; Bar-Sadan, M.; Albu-Yaron, A.; Popovitz-Biro, R.; Houben, L.; Prior, Y.; Tenne, R. Stability Criteria of Fullerene-like Nanoparticles: Comparing V2O5 to Layered Metal Dichalcogenides and Dihalides. Materials 2010, 3, 4428-4445. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma3084428
Levi R, Bar-Sadan M, Albu-Yaron A, Popovitz-Biro R, Houben L, Prior Y, Tenne R. Stability Criteria of Fullerene-like Nanoparticles: Comparing V2O5 to Layered Metal Dichalcogenides and Dihalides. Materials. 2010; 3(8):4428-4445. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma3084428
Chicago/Turabian StyleLevi, Roi, Maya Bar-Sadan, Ana Albu-Yaron, Ronit Popovitz-Biro, Lothar Houben, Yehiam Prior, and Reshef Tenne. 2010. "Stability Criteria of Fullerene-like Nanoparticles: Comparing V2O5 to Layered Metal Dichalcogenides and Dihalides" Materials 3, no. 8: 4428-4445. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma3084428