Fabrication of metal nano-structures using anodic alumina membranes grown in phosphoric acid solution: Tailoring template morphology

Influence of electrodeposition techniques on Ni nanostructures

“…The rate of growth of nanowires was also investigated by changing some experimental condition, in order to explain some non-clarified issues of our previous work [24]. In that work, we observed a lower and poorly reproducible growth rate of Ni nanowires, with quite different values of nanowires length for apparently identical experiments.…”

“…In particular, AAM is an almost ideal template, due to its morphology consisting in an ordered array of cylindrical pores perpendicular to the surface [12,13]. Another advantage of these membranes is the possibility to control their morphological features by adjusting the anodizing parameters, such as surface treatment of aluminium, potential and time of anodizing, nature and composition of electrolyte [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Besides, it is very easy and cheap to fabricate these membranes.…”

A comparison of surface enhanced Raman scattering property between silver electrodes and periodical silver nanowire arrays

“…By changing the structure of the AAM and the fabrication method, the structure of nano-scale system can be well controlled [14][15][16]. This enables us to adjust the period and aspect ratio of the nano-arrays to obtain an optimum profile for SERS.…”

Influence of the electrical parameters on the fabrication of copper nanowires into anodic alumina templates

“…We have chosen the AAM as template because, as shown in our previous works, by electrochemical deposition into this template it is possible to fabricate nanowires or nanotubes of metals, oxides and alloys, like Ni [26,32], Cu 2 O [33,34], CeO 2 [35], PbO 2 [36], and CoSn [37]. Moreover, using AAM, regular arrays of cylindrical nanostructures are fabricated, in which every single wire has identical morphology, unlike nanostructures obtained in polycarbonate membranes, whose pores show a non-constant crosssection [31,38,39].…”