Rapid fabrication of hierarchically structured supramolecular nanocomposite thin films in one minute

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kao, Joseph ^a   Thorkelsson, Kari ^a   Bai, Peter ^a   Zhang, Zhen ^b   Sun, Cheng ^b   Xu, Ting ^a,c,d  

^a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOFILM; SOLVENT;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DESIGN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY COST; RADIATION SCATTERING; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84901950138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5053     Document Type: Article

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