Quantification of thickness and wrinkling of exfoliated two-dimensional zeolite nanosheets

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kumar, Prashant ^a   Agrawal, Kumar Varoon ^a   Tsapatsis, Michael ^a   Mkhoyan, K Andre ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; ZEOLITE;

ANISOTROPY; CATALYST; LATTICE DYNAMICS; MAPPING METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ZEOLITE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; TILTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84929193162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8128     Document Type: Article

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