Layer-by-layer fabrication of an anatase titania multilayer with gradual sponge-like morphology

Colloid and Polymer Science

Volumn 290, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-126

  Perlich, Jan ^a,b   Memesa, Mine ^c   Diethert, Alexander ^a   Metwalli, Ezzeldin ^a   Wang, Weinan ^a   Roth, Stephan V ^b   Gutmann, Jochen S ^c,d   Müller Buschbaum, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatase titania; GISAXS; Gradual multilayer; Sol gel; Thin film

Indexed keywords

ANATASE TITANIA; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; GI-SAXS; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; HIERARCHICAL ORDER; LAYER BY LAYER; LAYER-BY-LAYER APPROACHES; LAYER-BY-LAYER FABRICATION; MULTI-LAYER SYSTEM; POROUS TITANIA; REAL-SPACE; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SOL GEL SOLUTIONS; THIN POLYMERS; TITANIA THIN FILMS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CALCINATION; FABRICATION; FILM PREPARATION; MULTILAYERS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; THIN FILMS;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANATASE TITANIA NANOSTRUCTURE; COPOLYMER; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOMATERIAL; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; POLYSTYRENE POLYETHYLENE OXIDE COPOLYMER; SILICON; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CALCINATION; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; EFFECTIVE MASS DENSITY; FILM; FILM THICKNESS; GRADUAL MULTILAYER SYSTEM; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL ANGLE X RAY SCATTERING; MORPHOLOGY; NANOFABRICATION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOL GEL PROCESS; SPIN COATING; SPONGE LIKE MORPHOLOGY; THICKNESS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; YONEDA MAXIMUM;

EID: 84857627114     PISSN: 0303402X     EISSN: 14351536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00396-011-2529-2     Document Type: Article

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