Ultralight boron nitride aerogels via template-assisted chemical vapor deposition

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Song, Yangxi ^a   Li, Bin ^a   Yang, Siwei ^b   Ding, Guqiao ^b   Zhang, Changrui ^a   Xie, Xiaoming ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84929346723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10337     Document Type: Article

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