Aerosol-spray diverse mesoporous metal oxides from metal nitrates

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Jianfang ^b   Kuai, Long ^a,b   Wang, Junxin ^b   Ming, Tian ^b   Fang, Caihong ^b   Sun, Zhenhua ^c   Geng, Baoyou ^a  

^a ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

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EID: 84928541561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09923     Document Type: Article

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