Block Copolymer-Templated BiFeO3 Nanoarchitectures Composed of Phase-Pure Crystallites Intermingled with a Continuous Mesoporosity: Effective Visible-Light Photocatalysts?

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 414-424

  Reitz, Christian ^a   Suchomski, Christian ^a   Weidmann, Christoph ^a   Brezesinski, Torsten ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

mesoporous; multiferroic; nanocrystalline; photocatalysis; Self assembly; thin films

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954847211     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0096-y     Document Type: Article

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