Technology update
Jun 5, 2007
As easy as blowing bubbles
Researchers in the US and Hawaii have developed a simple technique to align carbon nanotubes and nanowires over large areas – by suspending these materials in a polymer and blowing bubbles from the suspension. The bubbles, which grow to 25 cm in diameter and 30 cm in height, contain regularly spaced nanowires or nanotubes all pointing in the same direction. The method could prove useful for applications that require large-scale arrays of nano- or opto-electronic devices such as sensors and displays.
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