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Theoretical Pore Growth Models for Nanoporous Alumina
Nanoporous alumina has been extensively used in a wide range of applications, including template materials for various types of nanomaterials, high surface-area structures for energy conversation and storage, ...
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Structural Engineering of Porous Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) and Applications
Porous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) films can be conveniently produced by anodization of aluminum. Porous oxide layer formed on aluminum contains a large number of mutually parallel pores. Each cylindrical nano...
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Optical Properties of Nanoporous Anodic Alumina and Derived Applications
Inexpensive formation of periodically ordered structures with periodicities and feature sizes lower than 100 nm has triggered a vast amount or research in recent years. Of particular interest in nanotechnology...
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Nanoporous Anodic Alumina for Optofluidic Applications
The dynamics of liquid imbibition in nanoporous anodic alumina (NAA) has been recently studied by using the integration of optics and microfluidics. Here the latest results on the subject are revised, and some...
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Introduction
This chapter carefully analyzes the advantages, applications, and drawbacks of currently used biomaterials and discusses on the importance of selecting magnesium as a futuristic biomaterial. Further, it provid...
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Selection of Alloying Elements and Reinforcements Based on Toxicity and Mechanical Properties
An important criterion to assess and biologically evaluate a biomaterial is to study its local toxic effects at the implantation site and systemic toxic effects (distant from the implantation site) due to tran...
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Nanoporous Alumina Membranes for Chromatography and Molecular Transporting
Nanoporous membrane based molecular separation and transporting have gained huge attention in recent years due to an immediate need for simple, cost-competitive, and miniature ultrafiltration, chromatography a...
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Mechanisms of Nanoporous Alumina Formation and Self-organized Growth
The synthesis of nanoporous alumina based on anodization process is a field of active research. In this chapter, some fundamental scientific topics toward formation mechanisms of nanoporous alumina will be dis...
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Synthesis of Nanoporous Anodic Alumina by Anodic Oxidation of Low Purity Aluminum Substrates
The aim of this chapter is to present some recent findings on the fabrication of anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) layers by anodization of low purity aluminum substrates. The use of low purity, technical aluminum a...
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Soft and Hard Surface Manipulation of Nanoporous Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO)
Nanoporous materials with straight channels have attracted considerable interest due to their unique physical properties and many potential applications such as separation, sensing, biomedical and electronics....
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Nanoporous Anodic Alumina for Optical Biosensing
As a result of its physical and chemical properties, nanoporous anodic alumina (NAA) has been envisaged as a promising nanomaterials for develo** optical biosensing system with outstanding capabilities and p...
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Protein and DNA Electrochemical Sensing Using Anodized Aluminum Oxide Nanochannel Arrays
This chapter shows the recent trends on the use of anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) nanochannel arrays for electrochemical sensing of proteins and DNA with a special focus on those based on voltammetric detection...
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Synthesis of Magnesium-Based Biomaterials
Owing to the advantages of magnesium as a biomaterial, study on synthesis of magnesium materials is of prime importance. This chapter introduces potential synthesis techniques for synthesizing both impermeable...
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Selection of Alloying Elements and Reinforcements Based on Degradation Properties
Magnesium is a potential metallic degradable material which can be gradually dissolved, consumed, or absorbed within the human body. Secondary surgery increases human fatigue and health cost. In case of orthop...
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Nanoporous Anodic Alumina for Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications
Nanoporous anodic alumina (NAA) engineered by simple and scalable electrochemical anodization process has been extensively explored for drug delivery (DD) and biomedical applications. This review highlights th...
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QCL-Based Perfluorocarbon Emission Monitoring
Periodic, short-term, extractive sampling with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometers is often employed to measure perfluorocarbon (PFC) emissions at aluminum smelters. FTIRs have been routinely deplo...
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Determination of the Effect of Pitch-Impregnation on Cathode Erosion Rate
A number of smelters have adopted or have trialed high density, pitch impregnated cathode blocks as one measure to counter the trend in decreasing cell life due to line current increases. To date the true bene...
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Modeling Texture Evolution of Pure FCC Alloy During Annealing
During the annealing process of deformed materials, static recrystallization is an important phenomenon which can lead to significant texture changes in pure FCC alloy. In this paper, an integrated model was d...
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Computational Multi-Scale Modeling of the Microstructure and Segregation of Cast Mg Alloys at Low Superheat
It is well known that casting at low superheat has a strong influence on the solidification structures of the cast alloy. Recent studies on casting magnesium AZ alloys at low superheat using the Magnetic Suspe...
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Theory and Practical Application of Ultrasonic Degassing at J. W. Aluminum
Following the initial molten metal quality studies with the MetalVision MV 20/20 Inclusion Analyzer1,2,3,4, presented previously, the need for more robust molten metal treatment equipment and methods was identifi...
