Hollow nanoparticles of WS2 as potential solid-state lubricants

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6635, 1997, Pages 791-793

  Rapoport, L ^a   Bilik, Yu ^a   Feldman, Y ^b   Homyonfer, M ^b   Cohen, S R ^b   Tenne, R ^b  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUBRICATING AGENT; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030912590     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42910     Document Type: Article

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