Hydrothermal conversion and sol-gel coating of Red Sea coral

Key Engineering Materials

Volumn 240-242, Issue , 2003, Pages 43-46

  Innes, J K ^a   Vago, R ^b   Ben Nissan, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coral; Hydrothermal; Hydroxyapatite; Sol gel

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; HYDROXYAPATITE; MORPHOLOGY; PORE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CORALS;

SOL-GELS;

EID: 0037250689     PISSN: 10139826     EISSN: 16629795     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.240-242.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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