Freely suspended nanocomposite membranes as highly sensitive sensors

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 721-728

  Jiang, Chaoyang ^a   Markutsya, Sergiy ^a   Pikus, Yuri ^a   Tsukruk, Vladimir V ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FABRICATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROMACHINING; MICROSENSORS; POLYELECTROLYTES; REMOTE SENSING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FLEXURAL RIGIDITY; IMAGING ARRAYS; MINIATURIZATION; THERMAL SENSORS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

GOLD; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

GOLD; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 5444274152     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1212     Document Type: Article

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