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    Effect of pore widening time on the structural aspects of self-organized nanopore arrays formed by anodization of aluminum in chromic acid
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2016) Suchitra, S.M.; Ramana Reddy, P.; Udayashankar, N.K.
    Anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) membranes were prepared by two-step anodization of aluminum formed in 0.3M chromic acid at the ambient temperature of ~ 30° C with anodization potential of 50 V. The radial average fast Fourier transform based study of nanopores has been carried out. The duration of the pore widening was varied from 0min to 60min in steps of 15 minutes. The effect of the pore widening time on the structural parameters of porous anodic alumina such as pore diameter (Dp), interpore distance (Dc), porosity (P) and pore density (n) were studied. It was observed that pore diameter and porosity increased with increasing pore widening time. Highly ordered and better nanopore array of AAO membrane was obtained for the sample anodized in chromic acid with 60 min pore widening time. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.
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    Structural and optical analysis of silver nanoparticles grown on porous anodic alumina membranes by electro-less deposition
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2019) Ramana Reddy, P.; Ajith, K.M.; Udayashankar, N.K.
    In this paper, we report our studies on silver nanoparticles which were synthesized inside the pores of porous anodic alumina (PAA) membranes by electro-less deposition method. The morphology of silver (Ag) nanoparticles was studied using FE-SEM. The result of FE-SEM showed that the Ag nanoparticles were spherical in shape and spread in uniform manner throughout the membrane. The elemental composition of Ag nanoparticles was investigated by Energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy. Structural characterization using X-ray diffraction pattern showed that PAA was amorphous and silver nanoparticles on PAA were crystalline in nature. Absorbance and luminescent behaviour of PAA and Ag-PAA were studied using UV-Visible and Photoluminescence (PL) spectra. PL spectra results revealed the presence of a strong peak at 392 nm in blue region, confirming the fact that the silver nanoparticles were embedded in the alumina template. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd.