Electrochemically Engineered Nanoporous Materials

1. Front Matter

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2. Electrochemical Etching Methods for Producing Porous Silicon

   • Abel Santos, Tushar Kumeria

   Pages 1-36

3. Methods, Properties and Applications of Porous Silicon

   • Elisabet Xifré-Pérez, Josep Ferré-Borrull, Josep Pallarés, Lluís F. Marsal

   Pages 37-63

4. Self-organized Anodic TiO2 Nanotubes: Functionalities and Applications Due to a Secondary Material

   • Jan M. Macak

   Pages 65-92

5. Porous Silicon Biosensors Employing Emerging Capture Probes

   • Katharina Urmann, Elena Tenenbaum, Johanna-Gabriela Walter, Ester Segal

   Pages 93-116

6. Biomedical Uses of Porous Silicon

   • Steven J. P. McInnes, Rachel D. Lowe

   Pages 117-162

7. Porous Silicon in Drug Delivery Applications

   • Joakim Riikonen, Wujun Xu, Vesa-Pekka Lehto

   Pages 163-185

8. Sensing and Biosensing Applications of Nanoporous Anodic Alumina

   • Tushar Kumeria, Abel Santos

   Pages 187-218

9. Chemical and Structural Modifications of Nanoporous Alumina and Its Optical Properties

   • Agnieszka Brzózka, Anna Brudzisz, Katarzyna Hnida, Grzegorz D. Sulka

   Pages 219-288

10. Titania Nanotubes for Solar Cell Applications

    • Naoum Vaenas, Thomas Stergiopoulos, Polycarpos Falaras

    Pages 289-306

11. Titania Nanotubes for Local Drug Delivery from Implant Surfaces

    • Karan Gulati, Masakazu Kogawa, Shaheer Maher, Gerald Atkins, David Findlay, Dusan Losic

    Pages 307-355

12. Back Matter

    Pages 357-364

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This book provides in-depth knowledge about the fabrications, structures, properties and applications of three outstanding electrochemically engineered nanoporous materials including porous silicon, nanoporous alumina and nanotubular titania. The book integrates three major themes describing these materials. The first theme is on porous silicon reviewing the methods for preparation by electrochemical etching, properties and methods for surface functionalization relevant for biosensing applications. Biomedical applications of porous silicon are major focus, described in several chapters reviewing recent developments on bioanalysis, emerging capture probes and drug delivery. The second theme on nanoporous alumina starts with describing the concept of self-organized electrochemical process used for synthesis nanopore and nanotube structures of valve metal oxides and reviewing recent development and progress on this field. The following chapters are focused mainly on optical properties and biosensing application of nanoporous alumina providing the reader with the depth of understanding of the structure controlled optical and photonic properties and design of optical biosensing devices using different detection principles such as photoluminescence, surface plasmon resonance, reflective spectrometry, wave guiding, Raman scattering etc. The third theme is focused on nanotubular titania reviewing three key applications including photocatalysis, solar cells and drug delivery. The book represents an important resource for academics, researchers, industry professionals, post-graduate and high-level undergraduate students providing them with both an overview of the current state-of-the-art on these materials and their future developments.

• Electrochemical Etching Methods
• Electrotechnical Anodization
• Nanoporous Alumina
• Nanotubular Titania
• Porous Silicon
• Porous Silicon for Biomedical Applications
• Porous Silicon for Drug Delivery
• Self-organized Anodic Nanotubes
• Titania Nanotubes for Drug Delivery
• Titania Nanotubes for Photocatalysis

• School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

  Dusan Losic, Abel Santos

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