Tiny filaments and cylinders studied for possible uses in energy, electronics, optics and other fields
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 06:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Nanowires and nanotubes, slender structures that are only a few billionths of a meter in diameter but many thousands or millions of times longer, have become hot materials in recent years. They exist in many forms—made of metals, semiconductors, insulators and organic compounds—and are being studied for use in electronics, energy conversion, optics and chemical sensing, among other fields.