Coherent kinetic control over crystal orientation in macroscopic ensembles of polymer nanorods and nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Steinhart, Martin ^a,b   Göring, Petra ^a,b   Dernaika, Haissam ^a,b   Prabhukaran, Munusamy ^a,b   Gösele, Ulrich ^a,b   Hempel, Elke ^b   Thurn Albrecht, Thomas ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC THEORY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTUBES; NUCLEATION; POROUS MATERIALS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COHERENT KINETIC CONTROL; POLYMER NANORODS; POLYMER NANOTUBES; POROUS TEMPLATES;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

NANOMATERIAL; NANOTUBE; POLYMER; POLYVINYL DERIVATIVE; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; POLYMERS; POLYVINYLS;

EID: 33745924995     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.027801     Document Type: Article

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