The science of sculpture, nano-style
Friday, June 14, 2013 - 06:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —The next breakthrough in highly efficient battery technologies and solar cells may very well be nanoscopic crystals of silicon assembled like skyscrapers on wafer-scale substrates. An important route for growth of these nanoscale "whiskers"—or nanowires—involves alloyed metal droplets.