Periodically ordered nanoscale islands and mesoporous films composed of nanocrystalline multimetallic oxides

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 787-792

  Grosso, David ^a   Boissiere, Cedric ^a   Smarsly, Bernd ^b   Brezesinski, Torsten ^b   Pinna, Nicola ^b   Albouy, Pierre A ^c   Amenitsch, Heinz ^d   Antonietti, Markus ^b   Sanchez, Clement ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

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Indexed keywords

OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDES;

EID: 15744367661     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1206     Document Type: Article

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