Molecule-wide Carbon-60 nanowires prove great conductors of electricity
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In the future, very small devices will require very small amounts of electricity. Yet, how can future nanoscopic circuits at such levels be created? Scientists have found at least one answer: Carbon-60 nanowires.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have discovered an assembly technique which provides a way to construct one-dimensional nanowires. With no height or width outside of the fullerene (soccer ball-like) molecular size, and of only sub-micon length, these wire products could form the building blocks of extremely tiny man-made machines in the future, those on the order of 1000s of atoms or molecules in total size.
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