Plasma-assisted interface engineering of boron nitride nanostructure films

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 10631-10639

  Pakdel, Amir ^a   Bando, Yoshio ^a   Golberg, Dmitri ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

boron nitride nanosheets; boron nitride nanotubes; directional wetting; interface engineering; plasma treatment; superhydrophilicity; superhydrophobicity

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSHEETS; NANOTUBES; NITRIDES; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; SUPERHYDROPHILICITY; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

BORON NITRIDE NANOSHEETS; BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALIZATION; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; GRADIENT OF THE FUNCTIONAL; INTERFACE ENGINEERING; INTERFACIAL INTERACTION; PLASMA TREATMENT;

WETTING;

BORON DERIVATIVE; BORON NITRIDE; NANOMATERIAL; PLASMA GAS;

CHEMISTRY; PLASMA GAS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BORON COMPOUNDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMA GASES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84908409408     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5041729     Document Type: Article

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