Shape-memory nanoparticles from inherently non-spherical polymer colloids

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 486-490

  Yang, Zhongqiang ^a   Huck, Wilhelm T S ^a   Clarke, Stuart M ^a   Tajbakhsh, Ali R ^b   Terentjev, Eugene M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EMULSIONS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLTEN MATERIALS; POLYMERS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SURFACE TENSION;

INORGANIC MATERIALS; ISOTROPIC PHASES; MECHANICAL ENERGY; NANOPARTICLES;

COLLOIDS;

ETHER DERIVATIVE; MICROSPHERE; NANOTUBE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ETHERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSPHERES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS;

EID: 20144377381     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1389     Document Type: Article

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