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Thermally Carbonized Porous Silicon and Its Recent Applications
Author(s) -
Salonen Jarno,
Mäkilä Ermei
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201703819
Subject(s) - carbonization , materials science , nanotechnology , surface modification , porous silicon , characterization (materials science) , silicon , porosity , porous medium , drug delivery , chemical engineering , composite material , optoelectronics , scanning electron microscope , engineering
Recent progress in research on thermally carbonized porous silicon (TCPSi) and its applications is reported. Despite a slow start, thermal carbonization has now started to gain interest mainly due to new emerging areas for applications. These new areas, such as optical sensing, drug delivery, and energy storage, require stable surface chemistry and physical properties. TCPSi is known to have all of these desired properties. Herein, the above‐listed properties of TCPSi are summarized, and the carbonization processes, functionalization, and characterization of TCPSi are reviewed. Moreover, some of the emerging fields of TCPSi applications are discussed and recent advances in the fields are introduced.