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Z. Jaksic, J. Matovic:
"Functionalization of Artificial Freestanding Composite Nanomembranes";
Materials, 3 (2010), 165 - 200.

Artificial nanomembranes may be defined as synthetic freestanding structures
with a thickness below 100 nm and a very large aspect ratio, of at least a few orders of
magnitude. Being quasi-2D, they exhibit a host of unusual properties useful for various
applications in energy harvesting, sensing, optics, plasmonics, biomedicine, etc. We review
the main approaches to nanomembrane functionalization through nanocompositing, which
ensures performance far superior to that of simple nanomembranes. These approaches
include lamination (stacking of nanometer-thin strata of different materials), introduction
of nanoparticle fillers into the nanomembrane scaffold, nanomembrane surface sculpting
and modification through patterning (including formation of nanohole arrays and
introduction of ion channels similar in function to those in biological nanomembranes). We
also present some of our original results related to functionalization of metal matrix
composite nanomembranes.

metal-matrix nano/nano-composites; nanomembranes; nanosystem technologies; gated ion channels; nanoparticle fillers; synthesis, processing; structural and functional properties

http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma3010165

Project Head Jovan Matovic:
Metall-Komposite Nanomembranen für fortgeschrittene Infrarot Photonik