Chemical reduction of three-dimensional silica micro-assemblies into microporous silicon replicas

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7132, 2007, Pages 172-175

  Bao, Zhihao ^a   Weatherspoon, Michael R ^a   Shian, Samuel ^a   Cai, Ye ^a   Graham, Phillip D ^a   Allan, Shawn M ^a   Ahmad, Gul ^a   Dickerson, Matthew B ^a   Church, Benjamin C ^a   Kang, Zhitao ^a   Abernathy III, Harry W ^a   Summers, Christopher J ^a   Liu, Meilin ^a   Sandhage, Kenneth H ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM OXIDE; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOMATERIAL; NITRIC OXIDE; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; LOW TEMPERATURE; LUMINESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITRIC OXIDE; REDUCTION; SILICA; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIATOM; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; IMPEDANCE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MELTING POINT; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SYNTHESIS;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 33947099047     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05570     Document Type: Article

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