Effect of microgravity on the crystallization of a selfassembling layered material

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6645, 1997, Pages 857-860

  Ahari, Homayoun ^a   Bedard, Robert L ^b   Bowes, Carol L ^a   Coombs, Neil ^c   Dag, Ömer ^a   Jiang, Tong ^a   Ozin, Geoffrey A ^a   Petrov, Srebri ^a   Sokolov, Igor ^a   Verma, Atul ^a   Vovk, Gregory ^a   Young, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UOP LLC   (United States)

^c Imagetek Analytical Imaging   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFIDE; TIN;

CRYSTALLINITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICROGRAVITY; SULPHIDE;

ARTICLE; COVALENT BOND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; HYDROGEN BOND; MATERIAL STATE; MICROGRAVITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0030986544     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42213     Document Type: Article

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