Chemical nano-gardens: Growth of salt nanowires from supramolecular self-assembly gels

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 4838-4845

  Daly, Ronan ^a,b   Kotova, Oxana ^a   Boese, Markus ^a   Gunnlaugsson, Thorfinnur ^a   Boland, John J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chemical garden; nanowires; self assembly; sodium chloride; supramolecular gel

Indexed keywords

BASE-GROWTH MECHANISM; CASTING TECHNIQUES; CHEMICAL GARDENS; DIFFUSION-DRIVEN; NANOWIRE GROWTH; PREFUNCTIONALIZATION; SALT EFFLORESCENCE; SUPRAMOLECULAR SELF-ASSEMBLIES;

DRYING; GELS; NANOWIRES; POROUS MATERIALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

EUROPIUM; INORGANIC SALT; NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GEL; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POROSITY;

EUROPIUM; GELS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; POROSITY; SALTS;

EID: 84879653907     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305813y     Document Type: Article

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