Effect of Surface Structure on Shape Transformations of Gold Nanorods
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Yanting Wang, S. Teitel, and Christoph Dellago Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation and Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East Room 2020, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0850, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, and Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria (Dated: May 15, 2006)
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