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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2014, Article ID 240346, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/240346
Research Article

Anodic Fabrication of Ti-Nb-Zr-O Nanotube Arrays

Qiang Liu,1 Dongyan Ding,1 and Congqin Ning2

1Institute of Microelectronic Materials and Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
2State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China

Received 14 December 2013; Revised 1 March 2014; Accepted 1 March 2014; Published 27 March 2014

Academic Editor: Amirkianoosh Kiani

Copyright © 2014 Qiang Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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