%0 Journal Article
%T Ordered Nanomaterial Thin Films via Supported Anodized Alumina Templates
%A Mohammed Es-Souni
%J Frontiers in Materials
%D 2014
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/fmats.2014.00019
%X 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¨Cthermochromic nanocomposite of VO2-capped Au-nanorods.
%K film heterostructure
%K ordered porous films
%K supported templates
%K ordered nanostructures
%K anisotropic nanostructures
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmats.2014.00019/abstract