Hard and Transparent Films Formed by Nanocellulose-TiO2 Nanoparticle Hybrids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Schütz, Christina ^a,b   Sort, Jordi ^c   Bacsik, Zoltán ^a   Oliynyk, Vitaliy ^a   Pellicer, Eva ^c   Fall, Andreas ^b   Wågberg, Lars ^b   Berglund, Lars ^b   Bergström, Lennart ^a   Salazar Alvarez, German ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; NANOCELLULOSE; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FILM; HARDNESS; HYBRID; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; YOUNG MODULUS;

CELLULOSE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TITANIUM;

EID: 84867021808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045828     Document Type: Article

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