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the study of the benzotriazole inhibition of acid copper corrosion. Spectrochim. Acta A 50(11),
2019–2026 (1994)
17. T. Kravchuk, L. Vattuone, L. Burkholder, W.T. Tysoe, M. Rocca, Ethylene decomposition at
undercoordinated sites on Cu(410). J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130(38), 12552–12553 (2008)
18. A.S. Foster, T. Trevethan, A.L. Shluger, Structure and diffusion of intrinsic defects, adsorbed
hydrogen, and water molecules at the surface of alkali-earth fluorides calculated using density
functional theory. Phys. Rev. B 80(11), 115421 (2009)
19. O. Seitz, A. Vilan, H. Cohen, C. Chan, J. Hwang, A. Kahn, D. Cahen, Effect of doping on
electronic transport through molecular monolayer junctions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129(24),
7494–7495 (2007)
20. Q.S. Wei, K. Tajima, Y.J. Tong, S. Ye, K. Hashimoto, Surface-segregated monolayers: a new
type of ordered monolayer for surface modification of organic semiconductors. J. Am. Chem.
Soc. 131(48), 17597–17604 (2009)
21. J. Lee, J. Lee, T. Tanaka, H. Mori, In situ atomic-scale observation of melting point suppression
in nanometer-sized gold particles. Nanotechnology 20(47), 475706 (2009)
22. L.-M. Wang, Y. Tian, R. Liu, W. Wang, A “universal” criterion for metallic glass formation.
Appl. Phys. Lett. 100(26), 261913 (2012)
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24. L.K. Pan, C.Q. Sun, T.P. Chen, S. Li, C.M. Li, B.K. Tay, Dielectric suppression of nanosolid
silicon. Nanotechnology 15(12), 1802–1806 (2004)
25. S. Veprek, M.G.J. Veprek-Heijman, The formation and role of interfaces in superhard ncMenN/a-Si 3 N 4 nanocomposites. Surf. Coat. Technol. 201(13), 6064–6070 (2007)
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(2010)
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size effect in alpha-Al 2 O 3 (0001). Philos. Mag. Lett. 87(6), 409–415 (2007)
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superhard carbon: C-centered orthorhombic C 8 . Phys. Rev. Lett. 107(21), 215502 (2011)
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strength and debye temperature of PbS nanocrystals. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5(21), 3688–3693
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30. Y.B. Zhang, T.T. Tang, C. Girit, Z. Hao, M.C. Martin, A. Zettl, M.F. Crommie, Y.R. Shen, F.
Wang, Direct observation of a widely tunable bandgap in bilayer graphene. Nature 459(7248),
820–823 (2009)
31. Y.G. Nie, J.S. Pan, W.T. Zheng, J. Zhou, C.Q. Sun, Atomic scale purification of Re surface
kink states with and without oxygen chemisorption. J. Phys. Chem. C 115(15), 7450–7455
(2011)