Measuring porosity at the nanoscale by quantitative electron tomography

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5014-5019

  Biermans, E ^a   Molina, L ^a   Batenburg, K J ^a   Bals, S ^a   Van Tendeloo, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

discrete tomography; electron tomography; Porous materials; quantitative

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION; DISCRETE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; NANO SCALE; NANO-VOIDS; QUANTITATIVE; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TOMOGRAPHY METHODS;

ALGEBRA; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POROUS MATERIALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ZIRCONIUM;

POROSITY;

EID: 78650104179     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl103172r     Document Type: Article

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