In ambient atmospheres, aluminum becomes rapidly coated with a compact 2–3 nm thick
oxide layer. This native oxide layer prevents the metal surface from further oxidation …

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 …

Membranes with high selectivity offer an attractive route to molecular separations, where
technologies such as distillation and chromatography are energy intensive. However, it …

Anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) has been investigated and utilized in numerous products for
almost a century. But the rapidly increasing interest in nanoscale materials and their …

The quest for materials with molecular scale properties that can satisfy the demands of the
21st century has led to the development of one dimensional nanostructures, ODNS. Nearly …

Over the past decade, owing to key properties such as high surface area, tailorable pore
size and excellent accessibility to active sites, porous materials have shown significant …

This review deals with the topic of ultrasmall electrodes, namely nanoelectrodes, arrays of
these and discusses possible applications, including to analytical science. It deals …

There is considerable interest in the development of electroanalytical sensors (ie,
potentiometric, amperometric, electrochemical biosensors) for the detection of a wide range …

Researchers and industrialists have taken advantage of the unusual optical, magnetic,
electronic, catalytic, and mechanical properties of nanomaterials. Nanoparticles and …

The self-ordering of nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) in the course of the hard
anodization (HA) of aluminum in sulfuric acid (H2SO4) solutions at anodization voltages …