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Tag: nanowire
Amazing nano-wire explosions that look like tiny nukes
n 2008, Fanny Beron from the École Polytechnique de Montréal and colleagues devised CoFeB nanowires. They eventually found the best ...
Garden spiders use electrostatic charged silk to catch unsuspecting prey
Most spiders weave sticky, wet webs to trap their prey, but the feather-legged lace weaver spider, Uloborus plumipes, employs a ...
Insulating nanowire cloth that traps heat perfectly could help tackle climate change
Researchers at Stanford University coated flexible textile fibers with metallic nanowires to form a cohesive network that acts as a ...
Superconductive nanowire hybrid fuses semiconductor and metal with atomic precision
A novel type of nanowire crystals was demonstrated by researchers at the University of Copenhagen that can fuse together both semiconductor ...
This bacterium shoots wires out of its body to power itself
This bacterium has a lot in common with power companies. Power companies use copper wires to channel electricity (and therefore, ...
Viruses assemble key components for the lithium-air batteries of the future
In a synergy between biology and electrochemistry, researchers at MIT cleverly exploited genetically modified viruses to assemble metal molecules into ...
Bacteria conducts electricity just like a metal through bio-nanowires
A team of researchers from the US claim they have finally found tangible evidence that will once and for all ...
Quantum dots with nanowires yield greater solar cell efficiency
For some years now, scientists have been exploring the use of quantum dots as the basis for a novel type ...
Nanowires break solar cell cell theoretical maximum efficiency and usher in a new era of solar power
One of the biggest hurdles the solar energy industry currently faces is efficiently transforming the incoming energy from the sun's ...
Nanoscale wires defy quantum predictions, giving a new meaning to Moore’s law
Moore's law states that the processing power of computers doubles approximately every two years; as prices fall and manufacturing technology ...
The age of nano-electronics: scientists develop one of the world’s smallest circuits
A team of researchers from led by Guillaume Gervais from McGill's Physics Department and Mike Lilly from Sandia National Laboratories, ...