Anodic growth of large-diameter multipodal TiO2 nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7421-7430

  Mohammadpour, Arash ^a   Waghmare, Prashant R ^a   Mitra, Sushanta K ^a   Shankar, Karthik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

capillary forces; dynamic contact angle; nanofluidics; nanopores; self organization; surface tension; tapered nanotubes; tetrapods

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FORCE; DYNAMIC CONTACT ANGLE; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; TAPERED NANOTUBES; TETRAPODS;

CONTACT ANGLE; ELECTROLYTES; GLYCOLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOFLUIDICS; NANOTUBES; ROLLING RESISTANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANOPORES;

EID: 78650753323     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1026214     Document Type: Article

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