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Porous nanomaterials are essential for a wide range of modern technologies due to their high specific surface area. While single-material systems have been extensively studied in the past decades, bi-material nanostructures are nowadays attracting increasing interest, as these materials may offer improved performance, new functionality or just combine two functionalities in one platform. This work introduces and investigates a novel strategy for the solvent-free synthesis of two-component transition metal-oxide/metal (TMeO/Me) nanoparticle-based coatings, which combines a magnetron-based gas aggregation source for nanoparticle synthesis with conventional magnetron sputtering. As shown in an example of Ta2O5/Au, depending on the deposition procedure used, the coatings with different architectures may be produced in this way.
Keywords: Nanoparticles, gas aggregation sources, bi-component porous coatings© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.