Composite mesostructures by nano-confinement

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 816-822

  Wu, Yiying ^a   Cheng, Guosheng ^a   Katsov, Kirill ^a   Sides, Scott W ^b   Wang, Jianfang ^a   Tang, Jing ^a   Fredrickson, Glenn H ^a,b   Moskovits, Martin ^a   Stucky, Galen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COPOLYMERS; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICA; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; THIN FILMS;

INTERFACIAL INTERACTIONS; MESOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; SYMMETRY BREAKING;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 8344240498     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1230     Document Type: Article

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