In this paper, the ordering of the arrays of TiO2 nanotubes obtained by the method of anodic oxidation in the fluoro-containing aqueous-nonaqueous electrolytes containing glycerine and surface-active materials is investigated. For analysis of ordering, the two-dimensional Fourier spectrum, do-it-yourself configurational geometrical entropy and section of the two-dimensional autocorrelation function were used. These characteristics allow us to identify a nature of ordering in sufficient detail and to obtain the preliminary quantitative assessments of this order. It is found that, in the systems of titanium-oxide nanotubes, the stable, almost correct short-range order is established within the first coordination sphere. Such order is similar to the amorphous ordering. At the same time, the ordering of nanotubes arrays differs in detail from the amorphous one in the greater expressiveness of the typical scale the sizes of which can be estimated using the Fourier spectra as well as autocorrelation function.
In the paper, the array ordering of the TiO2 nanotubes obtained by method of the anodic oxidation in different modes in the fluorine-containing aqueous-non-aqueous electrolytes containing glycerin as well as the surface-active reagents is considered. It was shown that such characteristics as the two-dimensional Fourier-spectrum, autocorrelation function and its spectrum allow us to identify the ordering nature and to obtain the preliminary quantitative estimates of SEM order.
This article is concerned with the analysis of ordering the arrays of TiO2 and Al2O3 nanotubes using the correlation-spectral methods. As the tools, the spatial Fourier spectrum and one-dimensional autocorrelation function of SEM-image have served. It was shown that the arrays of the aluminum oxide nanotubes can have a nearly ideal ordering on a small scale at the expense of two-stage anodizing. It this case, the degree of order depends also on the purity of initial aluminum and sample preparation method. The introduced characteristics can serve as the measures of the structure order-disorder sensitive to both type and degree of order as a whole and to configuration of structural elements themselves.
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