Robust superhydrophobicity of hierarchical ZnO hollow microspheres fabricated by two-step self-assembly

Nano Research

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 726-735

  Sun, Ziqi ^a   Liao, Ting ^b   Liu, Kesong ^c   Jiang, Lei ^d   Kim, Jung Ho ^a   Dou, Shi Xue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

hierarchical structure; nanomaterials; robust superhydrophobicity; two step self assembly; ZnO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886097598     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-013-0350-6     Document Type: Article

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