Direct drawing of suspended filamentary micro- and nanostructures from liquid polymers

Nano Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1931-1937

  Harfenist, Steven A ^a   Cambron, Scott D ^a   Nelson, Eric W ^a   Berry, Scott M ^a   Isham, Alex W ^a   Crain, Mark M ^a   Walsh, Kevin M ^a   Keynton, Robert S ^a   Cohn, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAWING (FORMING); GEOMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MICROOPTICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

FIBER BRIDGES; MICROOPTICAL DEVICES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SOLVATED POLYMERS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEVICE; FIBER; GEOMETRY; LIQUID; OPTICS; SOLID; SOLVATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 7544237248     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl048919u     Document Type: Article

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