Compared with pure aluminum and wrought alloys, Al foundry alloys are more difficult to be anodized. The high content of alloying elements prevents the uniform growth oxide layer enhances embedding defects in anodic film. microstructure substrate anodizing parameters play a key role final quality layer. Variations chemical composition, casting process, pre‐ post‐anodizing treatments can signifi...

objective(s):anodized treated titanium surfaces, have been proposed as potential surfaces with better cell attachment capacities. we have investigated the adhesion and proliferation properties of h9c2 cardiac myoblasts on anodized treated titanium surface.  materials and methods: surface topography and anodized tubules were examined by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy (sem). control...

The archetypal silica- and aluminosilicate-based zeolite-type materials are renowned for wide-ranging applications in heterogeneous catalysis, gas-separation and ion-exchange. Their compositional space can be expanded to include nanoporous metal chalcogenides, exemplified by germanium and tin sulfides and selenides. By comparison with the properties of bulk metal dichalcogenides and their 2D de...

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...

Slippery and sticky superoleophobic aluminum surfaces were fabricated by electrochemical etching anodizing methods. Collective structures of sub-micrometer-scale cubic-shaped formed high-purity in HCl. The etched specimens then anodized H 4 P 2 O 7 to form anodic alumina nanofibers (AANFs) on the cubic surface, resulting a hierarchical aluminum-alumina structure. As water/oil-repellent self-ass...