Editorial for the Special Issue on Corrosion and Etching at Micro/Nanoscale
Giorgio Luciano1, Małgorzata Norek2
1Institute for Chemical Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, Genoa Branch, 16149 Genova, Italy.
Micromachines
|February 25, 2023
Abstract:
Micro- and nanoscale corrosion and etching at are important in several fields, from the fabrication of sensors and membranes to investigations of the properties of micro- and nanocomposites [...].
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