In a flash, light turns nanowires into mesh
STANFORD (US) — The ability to weld nano-sized wires with just a blast of light could lead to advances in electronics and solar applications.One area of intensive research at the nanoscale is the creation of electrically conductive meshes made of metal nanowires. Promising exceptional electrical throughput, low cost, and easy processing, engineers foresee a day when such meshes are common in new generations of touch screens, video displays, light-emitting diodes, and thin-film solar cells. Standing in the way, however, is a major engineering hurdle: In processing, these delicate meshes must be heated or pressed to unite the crisscross pattern of nanowires that form the mesh, and are thereby damaged....
Source: Futurity.org - Wednesday, 15 February
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