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Hydrogen‐Induced Reversible Insulator–Metal Transition in a Palladium Nanosphere Sensor
Author(s) -
Zou Jianli,
Iyer K. Swaminathan,
Raston Colin L.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201001003
Subject(s) - palladium , hydrostatic pressure , hydrogen , nanotechnology , insulator (electricity) , ambient pressure , materials science , metal , chemical physics , computer science , chemistry , optoelectronics , physics , catalysis , organic chemistry , thermodynamics
A reversible insulator‐metal transition occurs in a self organized three‐dimensional palladium nanosphere without the use of an external hydrostatic pressure, involving the absorption of molecular hydrogen at ambient pressure, which is a new paradigm in hydrogen sensing.