{"id":200703,"date":"2024-12-03T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/self-assembling-nano-electronics-faster-cheaper-more-reliable"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T19:26:21","slug":"self-assembling-nano-electronics-faster-cheaper-more-reliable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/self-assembling-nano-electronics-faster-cheaper-more-reliable","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Self-assembling\u2019 nano-electronics: Faster, cheaper, more reliable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dX9CGRZwD-w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A remarkable proof-of-concept project has successfully manufactured nanoscale diodes and transistors using a fast, cheap new production technique in which liquid metal is directed to self-assemble into precise 3D structures.<\/p>\n<p>In a peer-reviewed study due to be released in the journal <i>Materials Horizons<\/i>, a North Carolina State University team outlined and demonstrated the new method using an alloy of indium, bismuth and tin, known as Field\u2019s metal.<\/p>\n<p>The liquid metal was placed beside a mold, which the researchers say can be made in any size or shape. As it\u2019s exposed to oxygen, a thin oxide layer forms on the surface of the metal. Then, a liquid is poured onto it, containing negatively-charged ligand molecules designed to pull individual metal atoms off that oxide layer as positively-charged ions, and bind with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkable proof-of-concept project has successfully manufactured nanoscale diodes and transistors using a fast, cheap new production technique in which liquid metal is directed to self-assemble into precise 3D structures. In a peer-reviewed study due to be released in the journal Materials Horizons, a North Carolina State University team outlined and demonstrated the new method [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200703","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}