Not too big, not too small: The appropriate scale

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 77-83

  Stoneham, A Marshall ^a   Harding, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; QUANTUM THEORY; TEXTURES;

ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

DNA; POLYMER;

AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BONE; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LASER; POROSITY; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BONE AND BONES; CERAMICS; DNA; HUMANS; LASERS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMERS; POROSITY;

EID: 0037313781     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat804     Document Type: Review

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