Ceramic hollow spheres and their applications

Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 474-479

  Cochran, Joe K ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

D:t diameter to wall thickness ratio; PZT PbZrTiOx

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002547816     PISSN: 13590286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0286(98)80010-7     Document Type: Article

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