Fabrication of a porous polyimide membrane using a silicon nanowire array as a template

Woong Kim; Myung Ki Lee

doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2009.01.060

Fabrication of a porous polyimide membrane using a silicon nanowire array as a template

Woong Kim, Myung Ki Lee

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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Abstract

We demonstrate that a porous polyimide membrane can be fabricated by curing liquid polyimide on a vertically oriented silicon nanowire array and selectively etching away the nanowire-array-template using xenon difluoride (XeF₂). Pore size and density using the described technique are controllable. The former is dependent on nanowire diameter and the duration of etching, whereas pore density is determined by silicon nanowire density. We believe that the described porous membrane fabrication method can be applied to various polymer and nanowire systems.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	933-936
Number of pages	4
Journal	Materials Letters
Volume	63
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2009.01.060
Publication status	Published - 2009 Apr 30

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Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation through the Pioneer Converging Technology Program (No. M10711160001-08M1116-00110).

Keywords

Membranes
Nanomaterials
Nanowires
Polyimide
Polymers
Porosity

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Materials Science(all)
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering

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Fabrication of a porous polyimide membrane using a silicon nanowire array as a template

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