An anisotropic hydrogel with electrostatic repulsion between cofacially aligned nanosheets

Nature

Volumn 517, Issue 7532, 2015, Pages 68-72

  Liu, Mingjie ^a   Ishida, Yasuhiro ^a   Ebina, Yasuo ^b   Sasaki, Takayoshi ^b   Hikima, Takaaki ^c   Takata, Masaki ^c   Aida, Takuzo ^a,d  

^a RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c RIKEN SPring Center ^*  (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOSHEET; NIOBIUM; TETRAMETHYLAMMONIUM; TITANATE NANOSHEET; TITANIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINYL DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEL; NANOMATERIAL;

ANISOTROPY; BONE; COLLOID; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; GEL; MAGNETIC FIELD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMER; POLYMERIZATION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; DISPERSION; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; EMBEDDING; HYDROGEL; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FIELD; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE CHARGE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMISTRY;

ANISOTROPY; BIOMIMETICS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; HYDROGEL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NIOBIUM; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TITANIUM;

EID: 84922481712     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14060     Document Type: Article

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