Plasma etching to enhance visibility of nanoparticles in nanocomposites

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1581-1586

  Shivakumar, Kunigal ^a,c   Lingaiah, Shivalingappa ^a   Sadler, Robert ^a   Rafailovich, Miriam ^b   Si, Mayu ^b   Sokolov, Jonathan ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c 205 Fort IRC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; MIXING; PLASMA ETCHING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUALIZATION;

INORGANIC PLATELETS; MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT; NANOFILLERS; NANOPARTICLES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 28844483453     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-1929     Document Type: Conference Paper

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