Exploration of fractal nature of WO3 nanowire aggregates

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 327-336

  Kozan, Mehmet ^a   Pinar Menguc M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Fractal dimension; Porod regime; Size parameter; Static light scattering

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ASPECT RATIO; FRACTAL DIMENSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NUMERICAL METHODS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

ANALYTICAL METHODS; FRACTAL THEORY; STATIC LIGHT SCATTERING;

NANOWIRES;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 35549000030     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.08.020     Document Type: Article

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