One-step fabrication of thermally stable TiO 2/SiO 2 nanocomposite microspheres by evaporation-induced self-assembly

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 11343-11353

  Bahadur, J ^a   Sen, D ^a   Mazumder, S ^a   Sastry, P U ^a   Paul, B ^a   Bhatt, H ^a   Singh, S G ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING TIME; COMPOSITE GRAINS; COMPOSITE MICROSPHERES; CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; EVAPORATION-INDUCED SELF-ASSEMBLY; HIERARCHICAL MORPHOLOGY; HIGH SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; PLAUSIBLE MECHANISMS; SILICA MATRIX; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; TEMPORAL STABILITY; THERMALLY STABLE; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC; TIO; TITANIA NANOPARTICLES;

COALESCENCE; EVAPORATION; MICROSPHERES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84864690405     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la3022886     Document Type: Article

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