title: Hydrophilicity Reinforced Adhesion of Anodic Alumina Oxide Template Films to Conducting Substrates for Facile Fabrication of Highly Ordered Nanorod Arrays.
abstract: Arrays of ordered nanorods are of special interest in many fields. However, it remains challenging to obtain such arrays on conducting substrates in a facile manner. In this article, we report the fabrication of highly ordered and vertically standing nanorod arrays of both metals and semiconductors on Au films and indium tin oxide glass substrates without an additional layering. In this approach, following the simple hydrophilic treatment of an anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane and conducting substrates, the AAO membrane was transferred onto the modified substrates with excellent adhesion. Subsequently, nanorod arrays of various materials were electrodeposited on the conducting substrates directly. This method avoids any expensive and tedious lithographic and ion milling process, which provides a simple yet robust route to the fabrication of arrays of 1D materials with high aspect ratio on conducting substrates, which shall pave the way for many practical applications in a range of fields.
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University , Shenzhen 518055, China.|Department of Physics, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Chuanju
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University , Shenzhen 518055, China.|Department of Physics, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Guiqiang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University , Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University , Shenzhen 518055, China.|Department of Physics, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Xiangyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University , Shenzhen 518055, China.|Department of Physics, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Minimal Invasive Medical Technologies, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University , Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors.forename: Shuqing
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7906-2885
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sun