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Potassium hydrogen phthalate (KAP) micro- and nanorods prepared by a template approach

M. ENCULESCU1,*

Affiliation

  1. National Institute for Materials Physics, PO Box MG-7, 077125, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

Micro and nanorods of potassium acid phthalate (KAP) with diameters ranging from a hundred nanometers to tens of microns were obtained by solution growth in polycarbonate (PC) ion track templates. The ion track templates were produced by swift heavy ion irradiation of PC foils (e.g. U with 11.4 MeV/nucleon specific energy) and subsequently etching. After the growth the host templates were partially dissolved in dichlormethane and imagined by scanning electron microscopy. The template approach allows the fabrication of arrays of uniform nanostructures with a controlled morphology..

Keywords

KAP nanorods, Template method, Heavy ion irradiation.

Submitted at: Dec. 11, 2007
Accepted at: June 9, 2008

Citation

M. ENCULESCU, Potassium hydrogen phthalate (KAP) micro- and nanorods prepared by a template approach, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 10, Iss. 6, pp. 1501-1504 (2008)