Encoding Molecular-Wire Formation within Nanoscale Sockets

Encoding molecular-wire formation within nanoscale sockets.

We detail here a method to integrate chemical synthesis with the formation of nanoscale electrical “sockets” to allow the in situ construction of three-component molecular wires. Reaction chemistry offers molecular materials an overwhelming amount of diversity and functionality and could provide a method for nanoscale electronics to be synthesized rather than fabricated. Though presently underu...

Nanoscale Molecular Optoelectronics

Latching on the Wire and Pipelining in Nanoscale Designs

In contrast to general-purpose programmable fabrics, such as PLAs, we develop nano-fabrics that, while also programmable and hierarchical, are more tuned towards an application domain. Our goal is to achieve denser designs with better fabric utilization and efficient cascading of circuits. We call these designs NASICs: Nanoscale Application-Specific Integrated Circuits. We believe NASICs are a ...

Molecular encoding at the nanoscale: from complex cubes to bimetallic oxides.

Nanoparticles, 2] in particular those of semiconducting metal oxides like ZnO, have received increasing attention because of their high potential as components in nanotechnological devices. In general, materials containing more than one type of metal should display higher complexity and a wider range of properties. So far only little attention has been paid to bior multimetallic oxide nanostruc...

Tube Formation in Nanoscale Materials

The formation of tubular nanostructures normally requires layered, anisotropic, or pseudo-layered crystal structures, while inorganic compounds typically do not possess such structures, inorganic nanotubes thus have been a hot topic in the past decade. In this article, we review recent research activities on nanotubes fabrication and focus on three novel synthetic strategies for generating nano...