Fabrication of diameter-modulated and ultrathin porous nanowires in anodic aluminum oxide templates |
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Authors: | Grzegorz D. Sulka,Agnieszka Brzó zka,Lifeng Liu |
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Affiliation: | aMax Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany;bDepartment of Physical Chemistry & Electrochemistry, Jagiellonian University, Ingardena 3, 30060 Krakow, Poland;cAGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Non-Ferrous Metals, Al. Mickiewicza 30, Kraków 30-059, Poland |
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Abstract: | Anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membranes with modulated pore diameter were synthesized by pulse anodization in 0.3 M sulfuric acid at 1 °C. For AAO growth, a typical combination of alternating mild anodizing (MA) and hard anodizing (HA) pulses with applied potential pulses of 25 V and 35 V was applied. The control of the duration of HA pulses will provide an interesting way to tune the shape of pores and the structure of AAO channels. It was found that a non-uniform length of HA segments in cross section of AAO is usually observed when the HA pulse duration is shorter than 1.2 s. The pulse anodization performed with longer HA pulses leads to the formation of AAO templates with periodically modulated pore diameter and nearly uniform length of segments. Various diameter-modulated metallic nanowires (Au, Ag, Ni and Ag–Au) were fabricated by electrodeposition in the pores of anodic alumina membranes. A typical average nanowire diameter was about 30 nm and 48 nm for MA and HA nanowire segments, respectively. After a successful dealloying silver from Ag–Au nanowires, porous ultrathin Au nanowires were obtained. |
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Keywords: | Anodization Porous alumina AAO template Nanowires Electrodeposition |
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