Borosilicate nanoparticles prepared by exothermic phase separation

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 589-594

  Parashar, Virendra K ^a   Orhan, Jean Baptiste ^a   Sayah, Abdeljalil ^a   Cantoni, Marco ^a   Gijs, Martin A M ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; MICROFILTRATION; NANOMETALS; NANOPARTICLES; PHASE SEPARATION; SILICA; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

BINARY OXIDES; CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICALS; CHEMICAL FILTRATION; CONTRAST AGENT; LIFE-SCIENCES; MONO-DISPERSE; OPTICAL CONTRAST; PHOTONIC BANDGAP DEVICES;

BOROSILICATE GLASS;

BORON; NANOPARTICLE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTRAST; FILTRATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 53549110785     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2008.262     Document Type: Article

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