Turkish scientists manufacture world's longest, thinnest nanowires

A team of Turkish scientists involved with nano-technology has manufactured longest and thinnest nanowires ever through a method used for the first time in the world.

The team headed by Mehmet Bayindir with Turkey's National Nanotechnology Research Center said Friday the new method included a new thermal size-reduction process to produce indefinitely long nanowire and nanotube arrays with different materials.

He said the new technique could yield semiconducting and piezoelectric nanowire and nanotube arrays hundreds of metres long, with nanowire diameters less than 15?nm, or nanometer, which equals to one billionth of a metre.

The new invention is set make the cover of the Nature Material magazine's July edition.


/World Bulletin/