Author: Joseph C. Benedyk

Company: Light Metal Age

Issue#: Vol. 69, No. 5

Year: 2011

Pages: 8

 

 

Summary: The relatively new aluminum anodizing technology, primarily developed within the last decade, which depends on the porous and ordered nanostructure of anodized aluminum oxide (AAO), has evolved rapidly and found many high technology applications. This review attemps to examine some of the potential applications of AAOs as nanomembranes and nanotemplates in the fields of electronic devices, energy conversion, sensors, and medicine. Although an individual AAO application by itself may not be considered as a large volume business, the collective and diverse AAO applications are impressive, showing how a well established technology such as anodizing reinvents itself in this age of nanotechnology.