Elaborate architecture of the hierarchical hen's eggshell

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-179

  Zhou, Jie ^a,b   Wang, Shutao ^a   Nie, Fuqiang ^a   Feng, Lin ^c   Zhu, Guangshan ^d   Jiang, Lei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eggshell; gas conduction; hierarchy; morphology; porous calcium carbonate

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551580340     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-010-0067-8     Document Type: Article

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