Silica replication of the hierarchical structure of wood with nanometer precision

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1193-1202

  Van Opdenbosch, Daniel ^a   Fritz Popovski, Gerhard ^b   Paris, Oskar ^b   Zollfrank, Cordt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biomimetic; Cellular; Nanostructure

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR; DEPOSITED MATERIALS; FIBRILLAR STRUCTURES; FUNCTIONALIZED; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; LENGTH SCALE; LIGNIN MATRIX; MALEIC ACID ANHYDRIDE; NANOMETER PRECISION; ORGANIC TEMPLATES; PROCESSING STEPS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SODIUM CHLORITE; SPRUCE WOOD; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; TETRA-ETHYL-ORTHO-SILICATE; WOOD CELL WALLS;

BIOMIMETICS; CALCINATION; CELLULOSE; ETHANOL; SILICA; SODIUM; X RAY SCATTERING;

WOOD;

CALCINATION; CELLULOSE; ETHANOL; SILICA; SODIUM; WOOD;

EID: 79959441241     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.98     Document Type: Article

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