Silica Based Materials News Today

In a paper recently published in the open-access journal Materials, researchers reviewed the recent studies on the preparation, characterization, and uses of silica as well as silicates in several areas.

anodic oxidation.  As a result, one can obtain amorphous barrier-type oxides, crystalline barrier-type oxides or amorphous nanoporous oxides.  Currently, highly-ordered nanoporous anodic aluminum oxides (AAO) are obtained with various electrolytes to form nanostructures with a range of geometrical features.  This material can serve as a template for nanofabrication of variety of nanowires, nanotubes and nanodots.  In this way, porous alumina can be fabricated electrochemically through anod...