Percolation diffusion into self-assembled mesoporous silica microfibres

Nanomaterials

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 157-174

  Canning, John ^a   Huyang, George ^a   Ma, Miles ^a   Beavis, Alison ^b   Bishop, David ^b   Cook, Kevin ^a   McDonagh, Andrew ^b   Shi, Dongqi ^c   Peng, Gang Ding ^c   Crossley, Maxwell J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colloids; Filters; Laser ablation inductive coupled mass spectroscopy; Mesoporous; Microfibres; Microfluidics; Microwires; Molecular sieves; Nano composites; Nanoparticles; Nanopores; Self assembly; Sensors; Super diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989878683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20794991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nano4010157     Document Type: Article

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