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Nanoparticles make salty circuits

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Diodes, logic gates and sensors can be built from metal nanoparticles coated with charged organic ligands.

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Figure 1: Schematic of p–n diode and chemoelectronic diode.

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  1. Hao Yan and Nicholas Melosh are in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 496 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94305, USA, and the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA,

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Yan, H., Melosh, N. Nanoparticles make salty circuits. Nature Nanotech 11, 579–580 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2016.46

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