size-tunable porous anodic alumina nano-structure for biosensing若分散相多孔阳极氧化铝纳米结构尺寸.pdf

Soft Nanoscience Letters, 2011, 1, 55-60 55 doi:10.4236/snl.2011.13010 Published Online July 2011 (/journal/snl) Size-Tunable Porous Anodic Alumina Nano-Structure for Biosensing 1,2* 1 1 1 1,3 Zhigang Zhu , Luis Garcia-Gancedo , Qiang Liu , Andrew Flewitt , William I. Milne , Francis Moussy2 1Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; 2Brunel Institute for Bioen- gineering, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK; 3Department of information Display, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. E-mail: Zhigang.zhu259@ Received May 20th, 2011; revised June 18th, 2011; accepted June 24th, 2011. ABSTRACT A porous anodic alumina (PAA) film has been investigated to realise highly-ordered nano-porous structures. A two-step anodization process is used to anodize aluminium into size-controllable aluminium oxide. In this paper, we investigate how anodization parameters affect nano-porous structures, such as voltage and time of pretreatment, anodization volt- age and time, pore widening time. The results showed pretreatment is important to obtain a smooth surface for anodiz- ing. The pore size is controllable between 30 and 80 nm, with a linear fit curve. The interpore size is constant at around 95 nm, and the pore densities are between 1010 and 1011 cm–2. The formation of straight vertical walls is crucial if the PAA film is to be subsequently used as the template for the growth of metal nanowire arrays. Keywords: Porous Anodic Alumina, Anodization Electropolishing, Pore-Size, Electrode Array. 1. Introduction application [9].