Low-frequency Raman scattering of bioinspired self-assembled diphenylalanine nanotubes/microtubes

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5119-5126

  Wu, Xinglong ^a   Xiong, Shijie ^a   Wang, Minjie ^a   Shen, Jiancang ^a   Chu, Paul K ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; BIO-INSPIRED; BUILDING BLOCKES; COUPLED VIBRATIONS; CRYSTALLINE NANOSTRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; DOUBLE PEAK; ENERGY SEPARATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; LOW FREQUENCY REGIONS; LOW-FREQUENCY RAMAN SCATTERING; NANO CHANNELS; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SUB-PEAKS; SUBNANOMETERS; VIBRATIONAL COUPLINGS;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; DIPHENYLALANINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NANOTUBE; PHENYLALANINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROTUBULES; NANOTUBES; PHENYLALANINE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84857511566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005119     Document Type: Article

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