Research Article

Ostwald Ripening of Platinum Nanoparticles Confined in a Carbon Nanotube/Silica-Templated Cylindrical Space

Figure 1

TEM image of a representative CNT coated with Pt nanoparticles homogeneously distributed on their surface (inset: scheme of the process employed to drive first the PAH and later the Pt NPs to the surface of CNTs).
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