Esopen accessformation of tungsten oxide nanostructures by laser pyrolysis: Stars, fibres and spheres

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Govender, Malcolm ^a,b   Shikwambana, Lerato ^a,b   Mwakikunga, Bonex Wakufwa ^a   Sideras Haddad, Elias ^b,c   Erasmus, Rudolph Marthinus ^b   Forbes, Andrew ^a,d  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c ITHEMBA LABS   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; PYROLYSIS; SPHERES; STARS;

CO2-LASER; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; LASER PYROLYSIS; LASER WAVELENGTH; POWER DENSITIES; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; TUNGSTEN OXIDE;

TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85022225688     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-166     Document Type: Article

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