Highly ordered mesoporous silica microfibres produced by evaporative self-assembly and fracturing

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2028-2036

  Canning, John ^a   Ma, Miles ^a   Gibson, Brant C ^b   Shi, Jeffrey ^c   Cook, Kevin ^a   Crossley, Maxwell J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

DEVICE APPLICATION; MESOPOROUS STRUCTURES; MICROFIBRES; ORDERED MESOPOROUS SILICAS; PERIODIC POROSITY; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; TETRAHEDRAL SITES;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84896991307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.002028     Document Type: Article

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