Surfactant-assisted fabrication of free-standing inorganic sheets covering an array of micrometre-sized holes

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 686-691

  Jin, Jian ^a   Wakayama, Yutaka ^a   Peng, Xinsheng ^a   Ichinose, Izumi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; ELECTRON BEAMS; MICROMETERS; SPUTTERING; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

DRIED-FOAM-FILM (DFF); INORGANIC MEMBRANES; INORGANIC SHEETS; SURFACTANT BILAYERS; THERMAL DEPOSITION;

INORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34548398447     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1980     Document Type: Article

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