Christoph Mahr, Jorge Adrian Tapia Burgos, Marco Schowalter, Arne Wittstock & Andreas Rosenauer

Materials Research Letters, 10:12, 824-831

https://doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2022.2109941

Nanoporous gold as obtained by corrosion of alloys of gold and a less noble metal is a system with manifold applications. The process of dealloying, however, can result in partially porous samples, when dealloying conditions are not optimized with respect to composition and pre-treatment of the master alloy. In the present work, we investigate the dealloying interface between porous material and non-porous alloy in two samples, in which dealloying either stopped automatically or was interrupted manually. Reasons for unintended termination of dealloying in the former case are suggested.