Elastic membranes of close-packed nanoparticle arrays

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 656-660

  Mueggenburg, Klara E ^a   Lin, Xiao Min ^b   Goldsmith, Rodney H ^a   Jaeger, Heinrich M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; ELASTICITY; MICROMETERS; MONOLAYERS; NANOCRYSTALS; POLYMERS; SUPERLATTICES; TENSILE STRESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FORCE MICROSCOPY; INORGANIC PARTICLES; ORGANIC SPACERS; ULTRATHIN MEMBRANES;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 34548398014     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1965     Document Type: Article

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