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Happy holidays

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Carl Batt

To celebrate the holiday season, why not some art?  The image is gold nanowires that are gold-nanowiresbeing ‘grown’ on silicon.  Nanowires are important for a variety of microelectronics.  To grow them scientists have to perfect the recipe by trying different combinations of ingredients, temperatures and other things.  These nanowires are about the size of a red blood cell, or about 10,000 nanometers.  The gold nanowires were grown by Adnan Korkmaz of the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) at Northeastern University. 

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