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Journal of Nanotechnology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 469834, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/469834
Research Article

Effect of Lithium Ions on Copper Nanoparticle Size, Shape, and Distribution

Kyung-Deok Jang,1 Ada Ortega,2 Justin Ucol,2 Hao Du,3 and Nam-Soo Kim2

1KEN Research Center, SeoKyeong University, Seoul 136-704, Republic of Korea
2Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West and University Avenue, El Paso, TX 79968-0520, USA
3National Engineering Laboratory for Hydrometallurgical Cleaner Production Technology, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Received 7 December 2011; Revised 8 March 2012; Accepted 7 June 2012

Academic Editor: Kyoung Moon

Copyright © 2012 Kyung-Deok Jang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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