Sol-Flame Decorated Nanowires (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

Stanford University School of Engineering

Sol-Flame Decorated Nanowires (2 of 2)

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Professor Xiaolin Zheng at Stanford has discovered a new way to "decorate" nanowires with coatings of metal nanoparticles that greatly improve surface area. The decorated nanowires look like tiny pipe cleaners.

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Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory

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