Large-scale self-assembled zirconium phosphate smectic layers via a simple spray-coating process

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wong, Minhao ^a   Ishige, Ryohei ^b   White, Kevin L ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Kim, Daehak ^c   Krishnamoorti, Ramanan ^c   Gunther, Robert ^d   Higuchi, Takeshi ^b   Jinnai, Hiroshi ^b   Takahara, Atsushi ^b   Nishimura, Riichi ^e   Sue, Hung Jue ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^e KANEKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOMPOSITE; OLIGOMER; PHOSPHATE; POLYMER; ZIRCONIUM;

COATING; COLLOID; FILM; HUMIDITY; NANOPARTICLE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOSPHATE; POLYMER; RHEOLOGY; THIN SECTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ZIRCONIUM;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW KINETICS; GAS PERMEABILITY; HUMIDITY; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLID STATE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84954566203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4589     Document Type: Article

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