Interfacial Character and Electronic Passivation in Amorphous Thin ‐Film Alumina for Si Photovoltaics

Facile synthesis of highly thermally stable nanoporous γ-aluminas from aluminum alkoxide precursors

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6] Among these materials aluminum oxides are one of the most important class of compounds which have found a wide range of applications in industrial catalysts, catalyst supports, adsorbents, optics, electronics, or biomedicine. [7][8][9][10][11][12] Enhancement of the characteristics of these materials such as surface area, particle size, pore size, pore volume, morphology, and dimensionality continues to attract a considerable amount of interest. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Since the rst report of well-ordered periodically organized mesoporous silica in 1992, 20 with outstanding characteristics such as high specic surface area, uniform pore channels, tunable pore size, narrow pore size distribution, and others, the synthesis of different porous materials has become an exciting area of materials chemistry.…”