Nanofabrication of highly ordered, tunable metallic mesostructures via quasi-hard-templating of lyotropic liquid crystals

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Xinyi ^a   Lu, Wei ^b   Dai, Jiyan ^b   Bourgeois, Laure ^a   Yao, Jianfeng ^a   Wang, Huanting ^a   Friend, James R ^c   Zhao, Dongyuan ^a   MacFarlane, Douglas R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84925012844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07420     Document Type: Article

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