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Fabrication and geometric characterization of highly-ordered hexagonally arranged arrays of nanoporous anodic alumina Cover

Fabrication and geometric characterization of highly-ordered hexagonally arranged arrays of nanoporous anodic alumina

Green Sciences
Volume 16 (2014): Issue 1 (March 2014)
By: Wojciech J. Stępniowski,  Agata Nowak-Stępniowska,  Marta Michalska-Domańska,  Małgorzata Norek,  Tomasz Czujko and  Zbigniew Bojar  
Open Access
|Mar 2014

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjct-2014-0011 | Journal eISSN: 3072-0389
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Language: English
Page range: 63 - 69
Published on: Mar 25, 2014
Published by: West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
nanopores,
anodization,
self-organization,
fast fourier transform
Related subjects:
Industrial chemistry,
Biotechnology,
Chemical engineering,
Process engineering

© 2014 Wojciech J. Stępniowski, Agata Nowak-Stępniowska, Marta Michalska-Domańska, Małgorzata Norek, Tomasz Czujko, Zbigniew Bojar, published by West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin
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