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Photonic Crystals
A special Issue of Advanced Materials
Advanced
Materials, Vol13, N° 6 , 2001
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The March issue of the Advanced Materials
journal is entirely devoted to photonic crystals.
Many leading figures in the field have contributed articles and reviews to this issue.
Readers will enjoy the mix of topics (Chemistry, physics, engineering) and found
representatives snapshots regarding the fabrication of photonic crystals, as well as
self-assembly at various scales.
Guest editor: Younan Xia from the department of Chemistry, University of Washington
A total of 15 contributions with more than 300 references.
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Electrical conductive oxide aerogels: new materials in electrochemistry
D. R. Rolison and B. Dunn
J. Mater. Chem. vol 11, 2001, 963-980
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Aerogels which are nanoscale mesoporous materials of low density and high surface, have
been well studied as thermal insulators, heterogeneous catalysts, and novel particle or
radiation detectors. Now electrically conducting oxide aerogels are being explored as new
materials in electrochemistry and for their innate ability to amplify the nature of the
surfaces of technologically relevant conducting oxides in batteries,
ultracapacitors, and
fuel cells. The authors review recent results on vanadium, molybdenum, ruthenium and
manganese transition metal aerogels studied as charge-storage electrodes
materials. A
welcome historical overview and how aerogels are made is given at the beginning of the
review.
203 references.
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