Hierarchical nanoporous microtubes for high-speed catalytic microengines

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Li, Jinxing ^a,b   Liu, Zhaoqian ^a,b   Huang, Gaoshan ^a   An, Zhenghua ^a   Chen, Gang ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a,b   Li, Menglin ^a   Liu, Ran ^b   Mei, Yongfeng ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Fudan University   (China)

Author keywords

Catalytic locomotion; Hierarchical structure; Nanoporous; Tubular microengine

Indexed keywords

MATERIALS;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; DRIVING FORCES; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; MICRO-ENGINE; MICRO-TUBULAR; NANO-POROUS; NANOMACHINES; NANOPOROUS WALLS;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84900433725     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2014.11     Document Type: Article

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