Unusually stable ∼100-fold reversible and instantaneous swelling of inorganic layered materials

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Geng, Fengxia ^a   Ma, Renzhi ^a   Nakamura, Akira ^a   Akatsuka, Kosho ^a   Ebina, Yasuo ^a   Yamauchi, Yusuke ^a,b   Miyamoto, Nobuyoshi ^c   Tateyama, Yoshitaka ^a,b   Sasaki, Takayoshi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; INORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER;

HYDROGEN; LATTICE DYNAMICS; LAYERED MEDIUM; SHRINKAGE; SWELLING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MOLECULE; PARTICLE SIZE; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84875884692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2641     Document Type: Article

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