AUTHOR=Es-Souni Mohammed , Habouti Salah 

TITLE=Ordered Nanomaterial Thin Films via Supported Anodized Alumina Templates

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Materials

VOLUME=Volume 1 - 2014

YEAR=2014

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/materials/articles/10.3389/fmats.2014.00019

DOI=10.3389/fmats.2014.00019

ISSN=2296-8016

ABSTRACT=<p>Supported anodized alumina template films with highly ordered porosity are best suited for fabricating large-area ordered nanostructures with tunable dimensions and aspect ratios. In this paper, we first discuss important issues for the generation of such templates, including required properties of the Al/Ti/Au/Ti thin-film heterostructure on a substrate for high-quality templates. We then show examples of anisotropic nanostructure films consisting of noble metals using these templates, discuss briefly their optical properties and their applications to molecular detection using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Finally, we briefly address the possibility to make nanocomposite films, exemplary shown on a plasmonic–thermochromic nanocomposite of VO<sub>2</sub>-capped Au-nanorods.</p>