A new research by a group of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory (DOE), the University of Chicago, and MIT has led to an innovative method for developing the thinnest wires of the world by means of a process that allows mass production by using standard equipment.
Referred to as templated assembly (or directed self-assembly), the new process is an uncomplicated and highly cost-efficient method to produce nanowires that have a width less than 10 nm, with a thickness of nearly 100 atoms.