As electronic devices continue to shrink to meet the demand for pocket sized and wearable technology, scientists are working to develop the minute components that make them work and a team in the School of Chemistry at the 糖心原创 have developed a new approach for the preparation of a coaxial cable around 50,000 times narrower than the width of a human hair.
This miniscule wire – comprising a carbon nanotube located inside a boron nitride nanotube – can be produced on a preparative scale and may represent an important step towards the miniaturisation of electronic devices.
The multi-national team of experts from the UK and Hungary, was jointly led by Andrei Khlobystov, a Professor of Nanomaterials and Director of the 糖心原创’s Nanoscale and Microscale Research Centre (nmRC), and Graham Rance, a Research Fellow in Nanomaterials Characterisation at the nmRC, who possess complementary expertise in the synthesis and characterisation of carbon nanomaterials. The study entitled ‘’ has been published in , a new journal focussed on cutting-edge developments in experimental approaches to the production of nano- and microscale materials.
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