Ordered ceramic microstructures from butterfly bio-template

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2298-2300

  Li, Bo ^a   Zhou, Ji ^a   Zong, Ruilong ^a   Fu, Ming ^a   Bai, Yang ^a   Li, Longtu ^a   Li, Qi ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC PRECURSOR; ORDERED LEAD LANTHANUM ZIRCONATE TITANATE (PLZT); SUBMICROMETER DIMENSION EFFECT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL-ORDERED MICROSTRUCTURES;

ENERGY GAP; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROMETERS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SOL-GELS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33745315243     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2006.00978.x     Document Type: Article

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