Self-ordered hard anodization in malonic acid and its application in tailoring alumina taper-nanopores with continuously tunable periods in the range of 290-490 nm

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 112, Issue , 2013, Pages 327-332

  Sun, Bao ^a,b   Li, Juan ^b   Jin, Xin ^b   Zhou, Chuanqiang ^b,c   Hao, Qingli ^a   Gao, Xuefeng ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^c YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anodizing; Etching; Malonic acid; Porous anodic alumina; Taper nanopore

Indexed keywords

CURRENT-TIME TRANSIENT; CYLINDRICAL NANOPORES; HARD ANODIZATION; ITS APPLICATIONS; MALONIC ACID; POROUS ANODIC ALUMINA; POROUS OXIDE LAYERS; TAPER NANOPORES;

ALUMINA; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ETCHING; NANOPORES;

ANODIC OXIDATION;

EID: 84884655170     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2013.08.147     Document Type: Article

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