{"id":226696,"date":"2025-12-08T01:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/how-nanowires-work"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:24:24","slug":"how-nanowires-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/how-nanowires-work","title":{"rendered":"How Nanowires Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-nanowires-work.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the next section, we\u2019ll look at the ways scientists can grow nanowires from the bottom up.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the Nanoscale.<\/p>\n<p>A nanoscientist\u2019s microscope isn\u2019t the same kind that you\u2019ll find in a high school chemistry lab. When you get down to the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/atom.htm\">atomic<\/a> scale, you\u2019re dealing with sizes that are actually smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Instead, a nanoscientist could use a <b>scanning tunneling microscope<\/b> or an <b>atomic force microscope<\/b>. Scanning tunneling microscopes use a weak electric current to probe the scanned material. Atomic force microscopes scan surfaces with an incredibly fine tip. Both microscopes send data to a <a href=\"https:\/\/computer.howstuffworks.com\/computer-hardware-channel.htm\">computer<\/a>, which assembles the information and projects it graphically onto a <a href=\"https:\/\/computer.howstuffworks.com\/monitor.htm\">monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the next section, we\u2019ll look at the ways scientists can grow nanowires from the bottom up. Looking at the Nanoscale. A nanoscientist\u2019s microscope isn\u2019t the same kind that you\u2019ll find in a high school chemistry lab. When you get down to the atomic scale, you\u2019re dealing with sizes that are actually smaller than the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226696","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=226696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}