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Welcome to Porous Silicon.
Porous Silicon is one of the most exciting materials being tested and characterised throughout the research world. Future technological breakthroughs in electronics, e-mobility, consumer goods, solar, sensors, and medicine, to name a few, are happening now largely through the use of porous silicon. Because of its abundance, electrical properties, and bio-compatibility silicon has been and will continue to be an important material for many high tech industries. By taking advantage of the material properties as well as the geometrical and volumetric properties after etching pores into silicon substrates and particles, new and exciting applications are bringing these breakthroughs with in reach. |
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Pictures above from:
(Left) Anglin EJ, Cheng L, Freeman WR, Sailor MJ. Porous silicon in drug delivery devices and materials Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2008;9:1266–1277M. Sailor from UCSD (left),
(Middle)Leisner, M. Cojocaru, A., Ossei-Wusu, E., Carstensen J, Föll H., New Applications of Electrochemically Produced Porous Semiconductors and Nanowire Arrays Nanoscale Research Letters (2010) 5:1502–1506.
(Right) Chris Burns
(Left) Anglin EJ, Cheng L, Freeman WR, Sailor MJ. Porous silicon in drug delivery devices and materials Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2008;9:1266–1277M. Sailor from UCSD (left),
(Middle)Leisner, M. Cojocaru, A., Ossei-Wusu, E., Carstensen J, Föll H., New Applications of Electrochemically Produced Porous Semiconductors and Nanowire Arrays Nanoscale Research Letters (2010) 5:1502–1506.
(Right) Chris Burns