Mechanical Control of Surface Adsorption by Nanoscale Cracking. (7th April 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhuang, Qiang; Warren, Scott C.; Baytekin, Bilge; Demirörs, Ahmet F.; Pillai, Pramod P.; Kowalczyk, Bartlomiej; Baytekin, H. Tarik; Grzybowski, Bartosz
• Is Part Of: Advanced materials. Volume 26:Number 22(2014)
• Page Start: 3667
• Page End: 3672
• Publication Date: 2014-04-07
• Subjects: Materials -- Periodicals; Chemical vapor deposition -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.201306335
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0935-9648

Abstract

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