• DocumentCode
    1817355
  • Title

    Controlling the surface functionalities of nanoporous alumina membranes

  • Author

    Jani, Abdul Mutalib Md ; Kempson, Ivan M. ; Losic, Dusan ; Voelcker, Nicolas H.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Chem. & Phys. Sci., Flinders Univ. of South Australia, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    22-26 Feb. 2010
  • Firstpage
    200
  • Lastpage
    202
  • Abstract
    A new approach for controlling and to functionalise nanoporous anodic alumina oxide (AAO) membranes is described. Our approach is predicated on the remarkable stability of the silanised AAO surface during anodisation. Well ordered nanoporous AAO membranes with different external surface properties compared to the internal pore surface properties were prepared and characterised.
  • Keywords
    alumina; anodisation; membranes; nanofabrication; nanoporous materials; Al2O3; anodisation; external surface properties; internal pore surface properties; nanoporous anodic alumina membranes; stability; surface functionality; Biomembranes; Chemicals; Fabrication; Nanobioscience; Polymers; Scanning electron microscopy; alumina membranes; anodisation; silanisation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Sydney, NSW
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5261-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5262-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICONN.2010.6045249
  • Filename
    6045249