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Chemistry World January 14, 2011 Laura Howes	Size matters in piezoelectric materials Nanowires that produce current when bent and deformed can show huge improvements in efficiency as their diameters are shrunk. The findings will help advance research to power technology at the nanoscale.
Technology Research News October 6, 2004	Crystal structure tunes nanowires A new process that controls the crystal structure of nanowires made from specific semiconductors may enable electronic components, such as light-emitting diodes and laser diodes, with tunable properties.
Chemistry World May 5, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Nanoholes promise solar power Silicon solar cells with arrays of nano-sized holes could outperform their nanowire-based rivals, say Chinese chemists.
Chemistry World May 26, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Salt nanowire surprise Common table salt - normally a brittle crystalline material - can be pulled into nanowires that will extend by more than twice their own length without breaking
Technology Research News July 30, 2003	Crystal cracks nurture nanowires Researchers from the University of Tokyo in Japan have devised a way to form titanium nanowires within an intentionally flawed sapphire.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003	Process orders nanowire arrays Harvard University researchers have found a way to neatly layer and pattern rows of nanowires.
Chemistry World October 17, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Shining a New Light on Nanowires Scientists have created tiny solar power cells using silicon nanowires 200 times thinner than a human hair. The cells could provide renewable energy for both nano- and large-scale applications.
Chemistry World September 5, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Beautiful Blooms From Nano-Weeds Chinese researchers have discovered a simple way to grow nanowire clusters and transform them into an array of tiny flower-like forms.
Chemistry World February 7, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Nano-welding with a light touch US researchers have found a new way to weld together metal nanowires - simply by bathing them in white light.
Chemistry World February 13, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Clothes Power up Thanks to Nanowires Researchers in the US have invented a yarn that can generate electricity simply by being bent or twisted.
Chemistry World August 30, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Record proton conductivity claim withdrawn US chemists have withdrawn a claim that they created a crystalline nanowire that can conduct protons at world record speeds after other researchers, and subsequently they themselves, failed to reproduce the results.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Neil Savage	Nanowire Silicon Solar Cell for Powering Small Circuits A new type of solar cell made from a nanometer-scale wire might one day provide an on-chip power source for nanoelectronic devices or run microscopic robots, say scientists.
Chemistry World August 11, 2006 Tom Westgate	Nanomachines Power up with Piezoelectricity Nanomachines sound like a great idea, but where is the nanobattery to power them? The problem could be solved with piezolelectric nanowires (NWs), tiny strips of matter a few atoms wide that give out electricity when they are flexed.
Technology Research News June 16, 2004	Silicon Nanowires Grown in Place Researchers have found a way to grow nanowires between pairs of metal electrodes deposited on silicon wafers.
Chemistry World November 19, 2008 Hayley Birch	Colourful future for nanowires Dutch scientists have worked out how to fine tune the stripes of alternating crystal lattices that form in semi-conducting nanowires.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Neil Savage	Silicon Nanowires Turn Heat to Electricity Thermoelectric converters could tap waste heat from power plants and microchips.
Chemistry World April 5, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Ultrasonic Waves to Power Future Nanomachines A team of materials scientists has developed an innovative nano-scale power supply which is fueled by ultrasonic waves. The scientists predict that their nanogenerator could power the next generation of nanomachines.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Nanowires boost plastic circuits The move is on to develop flexible, cheap, plastic electronics, but so far organic circuits have fallen far short of silicon chip performance. Researchers from the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Germany have moved the field forward with a new way to make flexible transistors.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley	Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper.
Technology Research News July 2, 2003	Process puts nanotubes in place University of California at Berkeley researchers have found a way to grow silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes directly on delicate microelectronic components.
Technology Research News August 13, 2003	Carbon wires expand nano toolkit Scientists looking for building blocks to form electronics and machines that are not much bigger than molecules have gained a new tool.
Chemistry World April 2011	Waste Not, Want Not Modern devices waste a lot of energy as heat, noise and vibration. Here's a look at a new breed of energy scavenging materials that could recapture some of it.
Scientific American May 2007 Charles Q. Choi	Structured Settings Researchers have taken big steps in creating and using nanostructures that have eluded manipulation in the past.
Chemistry World July 2, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Atomic Scale Microscopy Goes Commercial The state-of-the-art technique for seeing atoms will become an important tool for chemical analysis over the next decade as instrument manufacturers commercialize advances pioneered in laboratories.
Chemistry World February 26, 2009 Nina Notman	Analysis hints at solar energy alternatives Materials such as iron sulfide, copper sulfide and copper oxide could trump today's silicon solar cells in terms of cost, and in terms of rapid production at the scale needed for solar cells.
Chemistry World March 2, 2012 Holly Sheahan	Piezoelectricity improves solar cell efficiency US researchers have come up with an explanation for their recent results that show that introducing piezoelectric semiconductor nanowires into solar cells improves their efficiency.
Technology Research News March 24, 2004	Nanowires span silicon contacts One challenge in making electronics at the size-scale of molecules is finding ways to position and attach nanowires to the tiny components. Researchers from Hewlett-Packard Laboratories have succeeded in growning nanowires between electrodes.
Technology Research News March 26, 2003	Hydrogen yields smaller nanowires Researchers from City University of Hong Kong in China have produced silicon wires that are smaller than any made before.
Technology Research News August 25, 2004	Hybrid Nanowire Makes Transistor One challenge in making minuscule electronic devices from nanoscale components is wiring the components together. Researchers have found a way to transform sections of semiconducting silicon nanowires into metallic, or conducting, nickel silicide.
The Motley Fool August 5, 2010 Eric Wesoff	Can a Disruptive PV Technology Topple First Solar? We list a few candidates for a "new black swan improbable pyro-nano-quantum-thingamajig technology" to displace thin-film PV.
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Alexander Hellemans	Nanowire Transistors Could Keep Moore's Law Alive Researchers are perfecting ways to produce gate-all-around devices
Reactive Reports March 2005 David Bradley	Losing the Sulfur Dutch researchers have figured out why the activity of catalysts used to produce clean fuels gradually falls. Their findings show that loss of sulfur atoms from the catalyst itself is to blame and could lead to a way to remedy the situation.
Chemistry World June 24, 2011 Rebecca Brodie	Nanogenerators for environmental sensors A nanomaterial-based, self-powered sensor that detects mercury in water has been developed by teams from the US and Korea.
Chemistry World October 21, 2010	Dancing Facets Reveal Nanowire Kinetics In certain circumstances, sapphire nanowires grow by executing an unexpectedly frenetic dance, where oxygen atoms change between partners in vapour, liquid and solid phases. That dance has now been captured by Sang Ho Oh.
Technology Research News March 26, 2003	Tilted trenches turn out tiny wires Researchers from UCLA, UCSB, and Cal Tech have found a way to make arrays of closely-spaced and crossed metal and semiconductor nanowires.
Technology Research News January 28, 2004 Eric Smalley	Chemicals map nanowire arrays There are two challenges to getting nanowire arrays ready for prime time -- finding ways of accessing any particular nanowire junction, and connecting the devices to the outside world. Chemically modifying the right junctions could solve both problems.
Chemistry World June 29, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Nanowire Shines Light on Subwavelength Microscopy Researchers in the US and Japan have created a nanoscopic 'torch' that shines visible laser light on nanoscale structures, imaging them with high resolution.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Alexander Hellemans	Strange Bedfellows Hybrid microcircuits, incorporating the desirable properties of the III-V compounds with those of cheap and ubiquitous silicon substrates, might soon find an important niche in electronics after all.
Technology Research News June 2, 2004	Plastic Nanowires Sense Gasses Cornell University researchers have devised a simple way to position conducting polymer nanowires on an electrode, and have made a prototype high-speed chemical detector that is capable of sensing minuscule amounts of ammonia gas.
CIO January 1, 2003 Matthew W. Beale	Unseen Stripes Imagine a nanowire -- 10,000 times thinner than a human hair -- that can function as a transistor, a light-emitting diode, a biochemical sensor and many other devices, all along a single candy-striped strand.
Chemistry World November 1, 2007 Jonathan Edwards	Gold Sets Nanowires Straight Mass-producing nanodevices may become a reality now that scientists in the US have demonstrated a new way of making millions of tiny electronic components at once.
Chemistry World January 9, 2008 Lewis Brindley	A Silicon Surprise Two teams of US scientists have demonstrated silicon-based 'thermoelectric' materials that could convert waste heat back into electricity.
Chemistry World March 3, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Atomic Etch A Sketch Researchers can inscribe nanowires onto a surface and rub them out again afterwards. The finding could eventually lead to a new generation of nano-scale electronic devices to rival silicon for the processing and storage of information.
Technology Research News September 22, 2004	Nanowire Makes Standup Transistor Researchers have devised a simple way to make a set of vertical transistors from nanowires.
Chemistry World December 17, 2007 Jonathan Edwards	Silicon Nanowire Boost for Rechargeable Batteries Scientists in the US have devised an easy way of using silicon nanowires to increase the capacity of lithium batteries.
Chemistry World August 14, 2009 Jon Cartwright	Nanomotors detect trace silver Researchers in the US and Germany have found that the speed of synthetic 'nanomotors' responds to nearby concentrations of silver.
Technology Research News August 10, 2005	Templates yield nano branches Making highly-branched nanoscale tubes and wires is a matter of easing off the juice by the right amount at the right time.
Chemistry World June 12, 2015 Tim Wogan	New synthesis heralds low-cost quantum dots Quantum dots could become commonplace in display screens thanks to a new synthesis technique that should make them cheaper