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APPLIED PHYSICS REVIEWS
Volume 1, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4893546
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- FCT [SFRH/BPD/82010/2011, SFRH/BPD/72359/2010, SFRH/BPD/84948/2012, SFRH/BPD/63150/2009, FEDER/POCTI/n2-155/94, PTDC/CTM/NAN/115125/2009]
- FSE/POPH
- FEDER
- ON2 [Norte-070124-FEDER-000070]
- Associated Laboratory - IN
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Due to its manufacturing and size tailoring ease, porous anodic alumina (PAA) templates are an elegant physical-chemical nanopatterning approach and an emergent alternative to more sophisticated and expensive methods currently used in nanofabrication. In this review, we will describe the ground work on the fabrication methods of PAA membranes and PAA-based nanostructures. We will present the specificities of the electrochemical growth processes of multifunctional nanomaterials with diversified shapes (e.g., nanowires and nanotubes), and the fabrication techniques used to grow ordered nanohole arrays. We will then focus on the fabrication, properties and applications of magnetic nanostructures grown on PAA and illustrate their dependence on internal (diameter, interpore distance, length, composition) and external (temperature and applied magnetic field intensity and direction) parameters. Finally, the most outstanding experimental findings on PAA-grown nanostructures and their trends for technological applications (sensors, energy harvesting, metamaterials, and biotechnology) will be addressed. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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