Monolithic gyroidal mesoporous mixed titanium-niobium nitrides

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 8217-8223

  Robbins, Spencer W ^a,b   Sai, Hiroaki ^b   Disalvo, Francis J ^a   Gruner, Sol M ^a,b   Wiesner, Ulrich ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

block copolymer gyroid; mesoporous materials; transition metal nitrides; triblock terpolymer

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM NITRIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES; TRANSITION METALS;

CARBON FRAMEWORK; CATALYST MATERIAL; ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGES; NETWORK STRUCTURES; ORDERED MESOPOROUS; SYNTHESIS STRATEGY; TRANSITION METAL NITRIDES; TRIBLOCK TERPOLYMERS;

MESOPOROUS MATERIALS;

MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; NIOBIUM; TITANIUM; TITANIUM NITRIDE;

CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELECTRODE; HEAT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POROSITY; POWER SUPPLY; VOLATILIZATION;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NIOBIUM; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POROSITY; TITANIUM; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84906691263     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn502548m     Document Type: Article

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