Highly Ordered Anodic Porous Alumina Formation by Self‐Organized Anodizing

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Anodizing of Aluminum and Anodic Porous Alumina Structure Types of Anodic Oxide Film General Structure of Anodic Porous Alumina Pore Diameter Interpore Distance Wall Thickness Barrier Layer Thickness Porosity Pore Density Incorporation of Anions Cell-Wall Structure Crystal Structure of Oxide Density and Charge of Oxide Film Miscellaneous Properties of Anodic Porous Alumina Kinetics of Self-Organized Anodic Porous Alumina Formation Anodizing Regimes and Current/Potential-Time Transient Pores Initiation and Porous Alumina Growth Historical Theories Field-Assisted Mechanism of Porous Film Growth Steady-State Growth of Porous Alumina Growth Models Proposed by Patermarakis and Colleagues Other Phenomenological Models of Porous Alumina Growth Other Theoretical Models of Porous Alumina Growth Volume Expansion: The Pilling–Bedworth Ratio (PBR) Rates of Oxide Formation and Oxide Dissolution Self-Organized and Prepatterned-Guided Growth of Highly Ordered Porous Alumina Aluminum Pre-Treatment Self-Organized Anodizing of Aluminum Structural Features of Self-Organized AAO Order Degree and Defects in Nanopore Arrangement Post-Treatment of Anodic Porous Alumina Removal of the Aluminum Base Removal of the Barrier Layer Structure and Thinning of the Barrier Layer Re-Anodization of Anodic Porous Alumina AAO Template-Assisted Fabrication of Nanostructures Metal Nanodots, Nanowires, Nanorods, and Nanotubes Metal Oxide Nanodots, Nanowires, and Nanotubes Semiconductor Nanodots, Nanowires, Nanopillars, and Nanopore Arrays Polymer, Organic and Inorganic Nanowires and Nanotubes Carbon Nanotubes Photonic Crystals Other Nanomaterials (Metallic and Diamond Membranes, Biomaterials) References