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Ion Tracks in Polymers

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Fundamentals of Ion-Irradiated Polymers

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Ion tracks were discovered by Young in 1958 [1], as he examined etch pits in fission-fragment-irradiated LiF by means of scanning electron microscopy. In 1959, Silk and Barnes [2] observed latent fission-fragment tracks in mica in the transmission electron microscope. These discoveries prompted the development of research on ion tracks until now, including track-etching techniques for particle detection and identification, and their use in several areas of science and technology such as geochronology and radiation dosimetry [3, 4]. In these applications, mostly natural minerals and synthetic polymers have served as ion-track detectors. At the same time, inorganic and polymeric track membranes, produced by ion irradiation and subsequent etching, have found applications in microfiltration [5] and gas-separation [6] technologies. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that track etching can be useful in lithography [7], and that microcomponents for electronic and mechanical devices can be fabricated by track replications [8–10]. Some of these applications will be reviewed in Vol. II of this book.

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Fink, D. (2004). Ion Tracks in Polymers. In: Fink, D. (eds) Fundamentals of Ion-Irradiated Polymers. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 63. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07326-1_5

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