Big step toward small wiresResearchers from Fudan University in Shanghai, Japan’s National Ins
Big step toward small wiresResearchers from Fudan University in Shanghai, Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science and QUT’s Centre for Materials Science have published the study, “Stable single atomic silver wires assembling into a circuitry-connectable nanoarray,” in the journal Nature Communications.For the past two decades, researchers wanting to develop nanodevices have rarely been successful in creating long atomic wires assembling into a coherently oriented array, in addition, such wires have been unstable in anything outside of a vacuum.In this project, as QUT’s Professor Dmitri Golberg explains, the researchers found they had surprising success when they did not try to create a wire, atom by atom, within a vacuum.The researchers put nanoparticles of silver onto the outside of tiny nanorods that have channels inside.Read more. -- source link
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