Synthesis and Evaluation of Fe Nanowire and Nanorod by Electro-Chemical Process

Abstract:

Nanoporous structured alumina templates for the synthesis of Fe nanowires were synthesized by the anodization of aluminium metal under various synthetic conditions in some acid solutions. Subsequently, using this nanoporous structured alumina as a template, Fe nanowires with some tens nanometer in diameter and some micron in length was successfully synthesized by both electrodeposition process into various types of porous alumina templates and chemical treatments in mixed-acid solutions to remove the templates. Effects of anodization treatments of aluminium for a porous template on the microstructure of Fe nanowires and nanorods were examined. As a result, the morphology of Fe products obtained by electrodeposition process could be designed with the template obtained under the synthetic conditions (anodization temperatures and electrodeposition conditions etc).

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 616)
• Pages: 237-241
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.616.237
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Atsushi Nakahira*, Shinya Yamamoto, Hiroshi Onodera
• Keywords: Anodization, Electrodeposition, Microstructure, Nanorod, Nanowire, Synthesis

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