{"id":162601,"date":"2023-04-21T22:23:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T03:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/electronics-at-the-nanoscale-challenges-and-opportunities-for-making-metal-nanowires"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:23:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T03:23:50","slug":"electronics-at-the-nanoscale-challenges-and-opportunities-for-making-metal-nanowires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/electronics-at-the-nanoscale-challenges-and-opportunities-for-making-metal-nanowires","title":{"rendered":"Electronics at the nanoscale: Challenges and opportunities for making metal nanowires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electronics-at-the-nanoscale-challenges-and-opportunities-for-making-metal-nanowires.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silver, gold and copper nanowires are leading contenders for next-generation nanoscale devices, however greater understanding of how they work and improved production methods are needed before they can be widely used, explains a recent review in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMetal nanowires are used for numerous applications, but our understanding of their mechanical properties remains elusive,\u201d says Nurul Akmal Che Lah, engineer at Universiti Malaysia Pahang.<\/p>\n<p>Lah and colleague Sonia Trigueros at the University of Oxford reviewed methods for synthesising and analysing silver, gold and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/copper+nanowires\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">copper nanowires<\/a> for molecular-based electronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver, gold and copper nanowires are leading contenders for next-generation nanoscale devices, however greater understanding of how they work and improved production methods are needed before they can be widely used, explains a recent review in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. \u201cMetal nanowires are used for numerous applications, but our understanding of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}