Micro- and nanoporous materials produced using accelerated heavy ion beams

P Yu Apel and S N Dmitriev

Abstract

This brief overview demonstrates how the ion track-based technology for micro-structuring polymeric materials that has been practised for decades is shifting to the nanometre scale in research and development applications. We present selected results of studies that have focused on the development of new nanoporous materials, especially membranes, performed recently at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)