A silica sol-gel design strategy for nanostructured metallic materials

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 460-467

  Warren, Scott C ^a,b,c   Perkins, Matthew R ^a   Adams, Ashley M ^b   Kamperman, Marleen ^a   Burns, Andrew A ^a   Arora, Hitesh ^a   Herz, Erik ^a   Suteewong, Teeraporn ^a   Sai, Hiroaki ^a   Li, Zihui ^a,b   Werner, Jörg ^a,b   Song, Juho ^a   Werner Zwanziger, Ulrike ^d   Zwanziger, Josef W ^d   Grätzel, Michael ^c   Disalvo, Francis J ^b   Wiesner, Ulrich ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRON EMISSION; FUEL CELLS; METALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; POROUS MATERIALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILICA; SOL-GELS; SOLVENTS;

BLOCK COPOLYMER SELF-ASSEMBLY; COLLOIDAL CRYSTAL TEMPLATING; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; MACROSCOPIC STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED METALLIC MATERIALS; POROUS NANOCOMPOSITES; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

SOL-GEL PROCESS;

EID: 84862796301     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3274     Document Type: Article

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