Due to the unique optical and electrochemical properties, large surface area, tunable
properties, and high thermal stability, nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) has …

Compared to free enzymes in solution, immobilized enzymes are more robust and more
resistant to environmental changes. More importantly, the heterogeneity of the immo-bilized …

Anodization of valve metals and alloys is a powerful tool to control nanoscale architecture for
many metal oxides. Except for aluminum, the most explored system is self-organized oxide …

▪ Abstract Metal-oxide nanowires can function as sensitive and selective chemical or
biological sensors, which could potentially be massively multiplexed in devices of small size …

Nanofabrication of magnetic storage media, where servo marks, discrete tracks or individual
islands are defined, offer the prospect for improved performance and increased areal …

▪ Abstract Continuing increases in the areal density of hard disk drives will be limited by
thermal instability of the thin film medium. Patterned media, in which data are stored in an …

Recent work on magnetic properties of transition-metal nanowire arrays produced by electro-
deposition is reviewed. The wires, which are electro-deposited into self-assembled porous …

The magnetic behavior of 100 nm period arrays of Ni nanowires embedded in a highly
ordered alumina pore matrix were characterized by magnetometry and magnetic force …

Magnetic nanostructures have been widely studied due to their potential applicability into
several research fields such as data storage, sensing and biomedical applications. Focusing …

Conventional magnetic order in a material requires the partially filled d or f bands. The
exchange interactions between the electrons in these partially filled bands give rise to a …