Implantable medical devices (IMDs) are designed to sense specific parameters or stimulate
organs and have been actively used for treatment and diagnosis of various diseases. IMDs …

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 …

Abstract ELTRAN®(E pitaxial Layer TRAN sfer), which is the first manufacturable and
commercially available product using Porous Si, has been originated, developed and …

Silicon-based materials have widespread application as biophysical tools and biomedical
devices. Here we introduce a biocompatible and degradable mesostructured form of silicon …

Giant enhancement of the dielectric properties has been measured at the percolation
threshold of a metal–insulator functional, graded composite using an in–situ electrical probe …

Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional low density materials are surveyed. The
microstructure is usually in a cellular form with some characteristic dimension (s) being small …

Organic-rich shale, which is a heterogeneous material, has been studied extensively from
various perspectives. Among all the components that constitute shale, organic matter is less …

Nanoporous silica films are of interest to the semiconductor industryas low dielectric
constant intermetal materials. Here the controlled synthesis of highly porous silica films with …

Diatoms have intricately and uniquely nanopatterned silica exoskeletons (frustules) and are
a common target of biomimetic investigations. A better understanding of the diatom frustule …

X-ray-diffraction observations of strains induced by vapor adsorption are reported for porous
silicon single-crystal samples. Two types of porous silicon (p and p+) with very different pore …