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Equipment 

• Laboratory for the preparation of self-ordered nanoporous alumina membranes following the two-step procedures introduced by Masuda et al. using sulphuric acid, oxalic acid and phosphoric acid as electrolytes.

• Computer-controlled furnaces for infiltration of self-ordered nanoporous alumina that can be operated under vacuum or argon. Complex temperature profiles can be programmed.

• Focused ion beam unit combined with scanning electron microscope Zeiss Auriga; scanning electron microscope JEOL JSM 6510.

• Wide angle X-ray diffractometer PANalytical X’Pert Pro MRD optimized for measurements of fiber diagrams, texture analysis, and thin-film analytics equipped with a Eulerian cradle and an Anton Paar hot stage DHS 1100.

• Atomic force microscope NT-MDT NTEGRA.

• Power-compensated differential scanning calorimeter Perkin Elmer 8500 equipped with Intracooler 3 cooling unit.

• USP 4 dissolution tester (ERWEKA)  

• Chemical labs, supercritical dryer, microcentrifuge, optical microscope, oxygen plasma etcher, spin coater, sputter coater.