Toughening of nanoporous glasses using porogen residuals

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 464-469

  Maidenberg, Daniel A ^a   Volksen, Willi ^b   Miller, Robert D ^b   Dauskardt, Reinhold H ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FRACTURE; GLASS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; THIN FILMS; TOUGHENING; X RAY SCATTERING;

DIELECTRIC LAYERS; FRACTURE ENERGY; NANOMETERS; NANOSCALE PORES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

GLASS; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; POROSITY; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GLASS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; POLYMERS; POROSITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X-RAYS;

EID: 3042719546     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1153     Document Type: Article

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