Nanoscale Architecture of Metal-Oxide-Pillared Clays using Supercritical CO2

✍ Scribed by S. Yoda; Y. Nagashima; A. Endo; T. Miyata; H. Yanagishita; K. Otake; T. Tsuchiya

• Book ID: 101411858
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 193 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0935-9648
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.200400469

✦ Synopsis

and improve the reproducibility of the results, the probes were treated in an argon plasma gas (RF Plasma Barrel Etcher) prior to each experiment. Scan rates were set at 2 Hz on all images. The free cantilever vibration amplitude (A 0 ) was fixed at 31 nm.

Thin sections of about 1 mm thickness were cut from the center of the sample disc with a razor. The surface of each sectioned specimen that was parallel to the x±z plane was cryo-microtomed (RMC MT-7 cryo-ultramicrotome) along the extrusion direction at ±130 C using a glass knife. The flat and smooth surfaces were generated with an initial rough trimming followed by cutting-off of thin sections down to 50 nm.