2H solid-state NMR experiments were performed under magic angle spinning on lipid bilayers oriented into nanotubes arrays, as a new method to assess the geometrical arrangement of the lipids. Orientational information is obtained from the intensities of the spinning sidebands. The lipid bilayers are formed by fusion of small unilamellar vesicles of DMPC-d54 inside a nanoporous anodic aluminum o...

Anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) templates for multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) growth were produced by anodization of aluminium followed by pulse-reverse electrodeposition of cobalt inside the AAO pores. Cobalt functioned as the catalyst for H2/C2H2 chemical vapour deposition (CVD) growth of fairly well graphitized MWCNTs initiating inside the majority of the AAO pores and quickly growing beyo...

Novel anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) films and hollow nanostructures were synthesized via a simple electrochemical and chemical etching route; fluctuating nanotube growth inside AAO film fabricated under ultra-high voltage was considered to be the main reason for the formation of such new structures.

This thesis aims at the synthesis of oriented nanochannel systems for the synthesis of metallic or semiconducting nanowires. Three different synthesis strategies have been developed. First, horizontal macroto mesoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) structures with individually addressable channel systems were fabricated in collaboration with the group of Dr. Anna Fontcuberta at TU München. For t...

CuSbS2 nanotubes (NTs) were prepared via a hot-injection method using an anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) template, and mixture of oleylamine (OLA) dichlorobenzene (DB) as solvent. Structural characterization the powder indicated formation high purity well-aligned NTs with average diameter 200 nm wall thickness 40 nm. Optical electrochemical characterizations that obtained exhibit p-type conductivit...

In this work, we report the preparation of nanostructured electrodes based on dense arrays vertically-aligned copper (Cu) nanowires (NWs) to be subsequently covered by cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin films, with great potential used within “substrate”-type photovoltaic cells AII-BVI heterojunctions. particular, multi-step protocol presented here involves an electrochemical synthesis procedure a s...

This Communication describes the self-assembly of phospholipids into lipid nanotubes inside nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide substrate. Orientations of the lipid molecules in such lipid nanoscale structures were verified by high-resolution spin labeling EPR at 95 GHz. The static order parameter of lipids in such nanotube arrays was determined from low-temperature EPR spectra and was found to be...