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most citedLaser-Excited Elastic Guided Waves Reveal the Complex Mechanics of Nanoporous Silicon

47 citations · 109 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Water-Driven Porous Silicon as a Platform for Blue Materials

Marc Thelen, Julia Brandt, Stella Gries +3

Living organisms control water to transport matter, transfer energy and drive chemical reactions. In this perspective, we argue that porous silicon can give engineering materials c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

A Mott-Schottky Analysis of Mesoporous Silicon in Aqueous Electrolyte by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy

Manuel Brinker, Patrick Huber

Nanoporosity in silicon leads to completely new functionalities of this mainstream semiconductor. In recent years, it has been shown that filling the pores with aqueous electrolyte…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 4 cited

Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Hierarchically Porous Silicon and Silica Glass by Active Nanoparticle-Assisted Chemical Etching and Pseudomorphic Thermal Oxidation

Stella Gries, Manuel Brinker, Berit Zeller-Plumhoff +4

Many biological materials exhibit a multiscale porosity with small, mostly nanoscale pores as well as large, macroscopic capillaries to simultaneously achieve optimized mass transp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 7 cited

How nanoporous silicon-polypyrrole hybrids flex their muscles in aqueous electrolytes: In operando high-resolution x-ray diffraction and electron tomography-based micromechanical computer simulations

Manuel Brinker, Marc Thelen, Manfred May +7

Macroscopic strain experiments revealed that Si crystals traversed by parallel, channel-like nanopores functionalized with the muscle polymer polypyrrole exhibit large and reversib…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 15 cited

Wafer-Scale Electroactive Nanoporous Silicon: Large and Fully Reversible Electrochemo-Mechanical Actuation in Aqueous Electrolytes

Manuel Brinker, Patrick Huber

Nanoporosity in silicon results in an interface-dominated mechanics, fluidics and photonics that are often superior to the ones of the bulk material. However, their active control,…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 36 cited

Silicon Flexes Muscles: Giant Electrochemical Actuation in a Nanoporous Silicon-Polypyrrole Hybrid Material

Manuel Brinker, Guido Dittrich, Claudia Richert +5

The absence of piezoelectricity in silicon makes direct electro-mechanical applications of this mainstream semiconductor impossible. Integrated electrical control of the silicon me…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 47 cited

Laser-Excited Elastic Guided Waves Reveal the Complex Mechanics of Nanoporous Silicon

Marc Thelen, Nicolas Bochud, Manuel Brinker +2

Nanoporosity in silicon leads to completely new functionalities of this mainstream semiconductor. A difficult to assess mechanics has however significantly limited its application…