Catalytic nanomotors: Fabrication, mechanism, and applications

Frontiers of Materials Science in China

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-39

  Gibbs, John ^a   Zhao, Yiping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bubble propulsion; catalysis; glancing angle deposition (GLAD); nanomotors; self electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952728007     PISSN: 16737377     EISSN: 16737482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11706-011-0120-x     Document Type: Review

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