Nanopores can be filled in with crystalline metal nanowires. For
example see:
Vázquez et al, "Arrays of Ni nanowires in alumina membranes: magnetic
properties and spatial ordering",The European Physical Journal B -
Condensed Matter, Volume 40, Number 4, August 2004 , pp. 489-497(9)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/
10051/2004/00000040/00000004/art00021?crawler=true
Nuclear active volumes appear to be small regions just below the
cathode surface, and characterized by special metal crystal domains.
It may be useful to codeposit D-PD into such nanopores to create
small isolated crystal domains. It would then be possible to
individually characterize the cells in a fairly small array of
nanopores by SEM prior to use as a CF cathode. Possibly
distinguishing data is then available after the fact for nanowires
which explode or melt down.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
