Electric-field alignment of chitin nanorod-siloxane oligomer reactive suspensions

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 8208-8212

  Boltoeva, Maria Yu ^a   Dozov, Ivan ^b   Davidson, Patrick ^b   Antonova, Krassa ^c   Cardoso, Laura ^a   Alonso, Bruno ^a   Belamie, Emmanuel ^a,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CURRENT; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; NANOCOMPOSITE SOLIDS; POLARIZED LIGHT OPTICAL MICROSCOPIES; SILOXANE OLIGOMERS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SOL-GEL TRANSITIONS; SOLVENT EVAPORATION;

ALIGNMENT; ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANORODS; OLIGOMERS; SILICA; SOL-GELS;

CHITIN;

EID: 84880229773     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la401448e     Document Type: Article

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