Composite material device

1. A composite material device, comprising:

a substrate comprising a plurality of pores, wherein said substrate is a porous anodic alumina; and

a plurality of gold particles adhered onto the inner walls of said pores,

wherein:

said gold particles have a distributing density of from about 10 2 to about 10 4 particles/μm 2 on the inner walls of the pores, said gold particles have a particle size of from 1 to 200 nm, and said plurality of gold particles have at least 10 different particle sizes d;

the 10 different particle sizes d are selected from the group consisting of d 1 to d 10 : 1 nm≤d 1 <10 nm, 10 nm≤d 2 <20 nm, 20 nm≤d 3 <30 nm, 30 nm≤d 4 <40 nm, 40 nm≤d 5 <50 nm, 50 nm≤d 6 <60 nm, 60 nm≤d 7 <70 nm, 70 nm≤d 8 ≤80 nm, 80 nm≤d 9 ≤90 nm, 90 nm≤d 10 ≤100 nm;

said plurality of pores have at least 5 different pore diameters f, said 5 different pore diameters f selected from the group consisting of f 9 to f 13 : 160 nm≤f 9 <200 nm, 200 nm≤f 10 <250 nm, 250 nm≤f 11 <300 nm, 300 nm≤f 12 <350 nm, 350 nm≤f 13 <380 nm;

said pores have 6 shapes selected from: triangle, quadrilateral, pentagons, hexagons, circle, and ellipse;

said pores have an average pore diameter of from 300 to 400 nm;

said substrate has a porosity of from 40% to 70% on at least one surface of the substrate; and

said composite material device has an average light absorption rate of greater than 85% at wavelengths ranging from 400 nm to 2.5 μm.

2. The composite material device of claim 1 , wherein said gold particles have a particle size of from 1 to 150 nm.

3. The composite material device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the following is satisfied:

1) said gold particles have an aspect ratio of from 1 to 10;

2) said plurality of gold particles have at least y aspect ratios e, y being greater than or equal to 2;

3) said gold particles have one, two or three shapes selected from: rod, ellipse and sphere;

4) the gold particles are disposed such that the distance between the adjacent gold particles is from 1 to 50 nm;

5) the gold particles have a distributing density of from about 10 3 to about 10 4 particles/μm 2 ;

6) the gold particles are disposed at a position from g to h μm in depth from a surface of a side of the substrate to the interior of the substrate along a length of the surface of the inner walls of said pores, g<h; g≥0, h≥0;

7) said gold particles have a size gradient from one side to the other side of the substrate;

8) said gold particles have an aspect ratio gradient from one side to the other side of the substrate;

9) said gold particles have shapes varying from one side to the other side of the substrate; and

10) said plurality of gold particles are disorderedly distributed on the inner walls of said pores.

4. The composite material device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the following is satisfied:

1) said pores have an average pore diameter of from 200 to 1000 nm;

2) said pores have aspect ratios ranging from 1 to 3;

3) said pores have an average pore-to-pore distance between adjacent pores of from 300 to 600 nm;

4) said pores are distributed disorderly on a surface of the substrate;

5) said pores have straight or curve pore channels;

6) said pores have pore channels at an angle of 90 degrees relative to a surface of the substrate, or said pores have pore channels at an angle other than 90 degrees relative to a surface of the substrate;

7) said pores are through pores or non-through pores;

8) said composite material device have a shape of a planar plate or a curved plate;

9) said composite material device has a total thickness from 20 to 200 μm; and

10) the substrate is covered with a metal layer on a surface of a side thereof to which said gold particles are adjacent.

5. The composite material device of claim 4 , wherein at least one of the following is satisfied:

1) said metal layer only covers the regions of the surface without pores;

2) said metal layer has a total thickness from 50 to 100 nm;

3) said pores are non-through pores, and said metal layer only covers the regions of the surface without pores;

4) said pores are through pores, and the metal layer is deposited on a surface of a side to which the gold particles are adjacent; and

5) said metal layer is made of a metal selected from the group consisting of: noble metals, transition metals or light metals.

6. The composite material device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the following is satisfied:

1) said substrate is made by an anodization method; and

2) said gold particles are made by a physical vapor deposition process.

7. The composite material device of claim 6 , wherein said physical vapor deposition process is an ion beam sputtering process or an electron beam evaporation process.

8. The composite material device of claim 7 , wherein at least one of the following is satisfied:

1) said ion beam sputtering process is performed under one or more conditions of (i) to (iv):

(i) a vacuum degree of from 4×10 −4 to 6×10 −4 Pa;

(ii) an ion gun voltage of from 6 to 8 keV;

(iii) an ion current of from 200 to 400 μA; and

(iv) a sputtering time of from 5 to 20 minutes; and

2) said electron beam evaporation is performed under one or more conditions of (i′) to (ii′):

(i′) a vacuum degree of from 4×10 −4 to 6×10 −4 Pa; and

(ii′) a film-plating rate of 1 Å/s.

9. The composite material device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the following is satisfied:

1) said composite material device has an average light absorption rate of higher than 95% at wavelengths ranging from 400 nm to 2.5 μm;

2) said composite material device is capable of absorbing light having a wavelength ranging from 1 nm to 50 μm;

3) said composite material device can convert liquid water to steam by utilizing light when it is under light irradiation;

4) said gold particles have a material capable of improving the performances of said gold particles disposed thereon; and

5) when a Fourier transform is performed on a scanning electron microscope photo of a surface of a side of the substrate to which said gold particles are adjacent, a Fourier transform picture showing a ring having an outer to inner diameter ratio of 2 or above is obtained.

10. The composite material device of claim 9 , wherein at least one of the following is satisfied:

1) said material capable of improving the performances of said gold particles can improve the antioxidant property and/or corrosion resistance of said gold particles;

2) said material capable of improving the performances of said gold particles is an antioxidant material and/or a corrosion resistant material;

3) said material capable of improving the performances of said gold particles includes metallic materials, inorganic non-metallic materials and/or organics;

4) said material capable of improving the performances of said gold particles includes oxides; and

5) said material capable of improving the performances of said gold particles has a composition which is different from that of said gold particles.

11. The composite material device of claim 1 , wherein the gold particles have a distributing density of from about 10 3 to about 10 4 particles/μm 2 on the inner walls of the pores.

12. The composite material device of claim 1 , wherein the gold particles are disposed at a position from g to h μm in depth from a surface of a side of the substrate to the interior of the substrate along a length of the surface of the inner walls of said pores, g=0, h>2, said composite material device having a total thickness from 50 to 100 μm.

13. A method for producing the composite material device of claim 1 , comprising depositing metal particles on a surface of a substrate comprising a plurality of pores and on the inner walls of said pores by a physical vapor deposition process.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein said physical vapor deposition process is an ion beam sputtering process.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein said ion beam sputtering process is performed under one or more conditions of (i) to (iv):

(i) a vacuum degree of from 4×10 −4 to 6×10 −4 Pa;

(ii) an ion gun voltage of from 6 to 8 keV;

(iii) an ion current of from 200 to 400 μA; and

(iv) a sputtering time of from 5 to 20 minutes.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein said physical vapor deposition method is an electron beam evaporation.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein said electron beam evaporation is performed under one or more conditions (i) to (ii):

(i) a vacuum degree of from 4×10 −4 to 6×10 −4 Pa; and

(ii) a film-plating rate of 1 Å/s.

18. The method of claim 13 further comprising applying a material capable of improving the performances of said metal particles thereon.

19. A method for absorbing light, wherein the composite material device of claim 1 is subjected to light irradiation.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the composite material device converts light into heat.

21. The method of claim 19 , wherein the composite material device desalinates seawater.