Effect of sodium borohydride on growth process of controlled flower-like nanostructured Cu2O/CuO films and their hydrophobic property

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 388-396

  Fan, Guoli ^a   Li, Feng ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Architecture; CuO film; Hydrophobicity; Nanostructure

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; BUILDING UNITS; CUO FILM; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLOWER-LIKE; GROWTH MECHANISMS; GROWTH PROCESS; HYDROPHOBIC PROPERTIES; NANORIBBONS; NANOSTRUCTURED CU; SODIUM BOROHYDRIDES; SODIUM LAURATE; SPECIAL SURFACES; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; SURFACE MODIFICATION;

ARCHITECTURE; FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOBELTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SODIUM; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

HYDROPHOBICITY;

CHRYSANTHEMUM; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE;

EID: 79651471413     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.12.090     Document Type: Article

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