Control and analysis of oriented thin films of lipid inverse bicontinuous cubic phases using grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 9874-9880

  Rittman, Martyn ^a   Amenitsch, Heinz ^b   Rappolt, Michael ^b,c   Sartori, Barbara ^b   O'Driscoll, Benjamin M D ^d   Squires, Adam M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICONTINUOUS CUBIC PHASIS; COMPLEX NANOSTRUCTURES; CONTROLLABLE FORMATION; CONTROLLED TEMPERATURE; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; MESOPHASE STRUCTURES; REVERSIBLE PHASE TRANSITION; THIN FILM MORPHOLOGY;

DRUG DELIVERY; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICS; THIN FILMS; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAYS;

HUMIDITY CONTROL;

EID: 84881453757     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la401580y     Document Type: Article

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