Positronium annihilation study of porosity in silica xerogels prepared by a sol-gel process

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1625-1627

  Wakabayashi, Yuki ^a   Ito, Kenji ^a,c   Li, Hong Ling ^a   Ujihira, Yusuke ^a   Kamitani, Kazuya ^b   Inoue, Hiroyuki ^b   Makishima, Akio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; GELS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POROSITY; SALTS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SORPTION;

POSITRONIUM ANNIHILATION; SILICA XEROGELS; SOL-GEL PROCESS; STRUCTURAL CHANGES;

SILICA;

EID: 0142008220     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2003.tb03529.x     Document Type: Article

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