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Nature 425, 243-244 (18 September 2003) | doi:10.1038/425243a

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Nanotechnology: Wires on water

Peidong Yang1

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A centuries-old technique for transporting timber is the inspiration for a new method of assembling nanowires into large-scale, ordered patterns that could form the basis of a new generation of electronic devices.

In the nineteenth century, river logging became one of the principal lumbering operations in the area around the Great Lakes of North America. Logs were piled up through the winter.

  1. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
    Email: p_yang@uclink.berkeley.edu