Reversibly erasable nanoporous anti-reflection coatings from polyelectrolyte multilayers

Nature Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-63

  Hiller, Jeri'ann ^a   Mendelsohn, Jonas D ^a   Rubner, Michael F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; COATINGS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PH EFFECTS; POLYELECTROLYTES; POLYMERS; POROUS MATERIALS;

AQUEOUS-BASED PROCESS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0013006269     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat719     Document Type: Article

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