Fabrication of ordered porous anodic alumina with ultra-large interpore distances using ultrahigh voltages

Materials Research Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue , 2014, Pages 116-120

  Chen, Xi ^a,b   Yu, Dongliang ^a,b   Cao, Liu ^a   Zhu, Xufei ^a   Song, Ye ^a   Huang, Hongtao ^b   Lu, Linfeng ^b   Chen, Xiaoyuan ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Microporous materials; Nanostructures; Oxides; SEM

Indexed keywords

ANODIC OXIDATION; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; MICROPOROUS MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES;

AL SUBSTRATE; ANODIZATIONS; INTERPORE DISTANCES; MIXED ELECTROLYTE; ORDERED POROUS; ULTRA HIGH VOLTAGE;

FABRICATION;

EID: 84901975518     PISSN: 00255408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.materresbull.2014.05.037     Document Type: Article

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