Nanoporous metals with controlled multimodal pore size distribution

Yi Ding; Jonah Erlebacher

doi:10.1021/ja035318g

Nanoporous metals with controlled multimodal pore size distribution

J Am Chem Soc. 2003 Jul 2;125(26):7772-3. doi: 10.1021/ja035318g.

Authors

Yi Ding¹, Jonah Erlebacher

Affiliation

¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.

PMID: 12822974
DOI: 10.1021/ja035318g

Abstract

A simple two-step dealloying strategy is described to make free-standing metal membranes with hierarchical porous architecture. This structure has a bimodal pore size distribution composed of large porosity channels and small porosity channel walls, where each pore size can be tailored independently of the others. A new gas-phase electroless plating technique was also developed here that could be used to uniformly fill porous structures with pore size as small as 10 nm.