Study of the anodization of aluminum and tantalum at 1.2 kV in pure (distilled) water showed the possibility of generating electroluminescence (EL) in this system, which excluded the need for introducing any impurities into the initial aqueous medium and simplified interpretation of the observed results. It is established that the products of high-voltage anodization of metals in distilled water and the EL emission accompanying this process are similar to those observed during low-voltage anodization of metals in aqueous electrolyte solutions.

The film of aluminum oxide formed by electrolysis in distilled water demonstrated the possibility of generating its electroluminescence in ketones and related compounds containing carbonyl groups. For acetone, cyclohexanone, methylpyrrolidone, acetylacetone, 4-ethylpropiophenone and 4-methoxypropiophenone, it was established that this process proceeds without electrolysis of the above compounds. It was shown that at constant voltage and temperature, the brightness-kinetic characteristics of luminescence are significantly affected by a combination of the following factors: the structure and elemental composition of hydrocarbon radicals of ketones, the number of carbonyl groups at these radicals, the thickness and structural organization of Al2O3 oxide films, on the surface of which local amplification is possible electric field strengths up to values of the order of 10^6 V/m, sufficient to initiate and maintain ionization processes leading to generation light.

For a film of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) formed in distilled water (H2O), a linear growth was revealed during the high-voltage anodization time of 2000 s, and it was found that its electroluminescence (EL) is reliably recorded at an Al2O3 thickness of about 120 nm. It is shown that in DV and its deuterium-containing analogue, deuterium water (D2O), the electrolysis formation of Al2O3 is possible. cellular-nanoporous structure, identical to that formed in aqueous solutions of electrolytes. It was found that the presence of such a structure in the oxide is not a prerequisite for the generation of its EL. The EL spectrum of Al2O3 in H2O and D2O, as well as in “water-like” electrolytes: ethylene glycol, N, N-dimethylethanolamine, and isopentanol, was recorded for the first time. In the investigated range of 400–700 nm, significant differences in the luminescence in water and the above alcohols are revealed. For EL, the short-wavelength component with a wavelength of the order of 440 nm dominates in water, and in alcohols, the long-wavelength component with a maximum at 625 nm. In this case, nonstationarity of luminescence is observed both in the spectral composition and in the intensity of individual parts of the spectrum for the entire time of aluminum anodization.