Micro- and nano-engineering of III-V and II-VI semiconductor compounds and metal nanostructures based on electrochemical technologies for multifunctional applications

Abstract

Starting with the rapid development of nanotechnology in the 1990s, a variety of porous materials has been reported. The wide class of porous materials includes both organic and inorganic materials such as porous metals, porous semiconductor and dielectrics, porous ceramics, polymer foams, metal-organic frameworks etc. Porous solids often serve as structural bodies in nature, including in wood, bones and other biological objects. Depending on their nature, porous materials are prepared by specific technologies involving a lot of fundamental concepts, and they find specific fields of applications determined by their properties.