A combination of hard and soft templating for the fabrication of silica hollow microcoils with nanostructured walls

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rodriguez Abreu, Carlos ^a   Vilanova, Neus ^b   Solans, Conxita ^b   Ujihara, Masaki ^c   Imae, Toyoko ^c   López Quintela, Arturo ^d   Motojima, Seiji ^e  

^a INTERNATIONAL IBERIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED CHEMISTRY OF CATALONIA IQAC CSIC   (Spain)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^e TOYOTA PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYES; MICELLES; PORE SIZE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; X RAY SCATTERING; ADSORPTION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

CARBON MICROCOILS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HEXAGONAL ARRAYS; MESOPOROUS WALLS; NITROGEN SORPTION; PREFERENTIAL ADSORPTION; SOFT-TEMPLATING; SURFACTANT MICELLES; AMPHIPHILIC DYE; FUNCTIONALIZED; HARD TEMPLATES; MICROCOILS; NANO-STRUCTURED; SHAPE AND SIZE; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SOFT TEMPLATE; TEMPLATING;

SILICA;

EID: 84255167457     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-330     Document Type: Article

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