Influence of surfactant concentration on the surface morphology of hollow silica microspheres and its explanation

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 766-771

  Liu, Shiquan ^a   Wei, Meiying ^a   Cool, Pegie ^b   Van Oers, Cynthia ^b   Rao, Jiancun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

electron microscopy; hollow silica microsphere; surface morphology; surfactant

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054909561     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927611000572     Document Type: Article

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