Engineering New Layered Solids from Exfoliated Inorganics: A Periodically Alternating Hydrotalcite-Montmorillonite Layered Hybrid

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chalasani, Rajesh ^a   Gupta, Amit ^a   Vasudevan, Sukumaran ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

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EID: 84890768174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03498     Document Type: Article

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