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Unlocking innovation in the supply chain

26 April 2016

Jinchen Hou from the Institute for Manufacturing comments on how members of complex supply chains can form alliances, in order to unlock the innovation that’s often hiding within individual companies. 

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Artistic rendering of self-assembled nanowires composed of different crystal structures that spontaneously grow with the help of a catalytic nanoparticle at the tip of each nanowire.

Farming at nanoscale dimensions

18 March 2016

Researchers from ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª, IBM and Lund University have discovered how tiny 'nanowires' of a widely-used semiconductor self-assemble. Dr Frances Ross of IBM Research explains how the findings could lead to a new crop of nanodevices. 

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Images recorded in the electron microscope showing the formation of a nickel silicide (NiSi2) nanoparticle (coloured yellow) in a silicon nanowire

New technique to synthesise nanostructured nanowires

16 July 2015

Researchers have developed a new method for growing ‘hybrid’ crystals at the nanoscale, in which quantum dots – essentially nanoscale semiconductors – of different materials can be sequentially incorporated into a host nanowire with perfect junctions between the components.

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