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Nanowires
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Nanowire
A nanometer-scale wire consisting of metal atoms, silicon or other materials that conduct electricity. Nanowires are one-dimensional, and exhibit…
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
High-performance lithium battery anodes using silicon nanowires.
Candace K. Chan
,
H. Peng
,
+4 authors
Yi Cui
Nature Nanotechnology
2008
Corpus ID: 15419822
There is great interest in developing rechargeable lithium batteries with higher energy capacity and longer cycle life for…
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials
A. Boukai
,
Y. Bunimovich
,
J. Tahir-Kheli
,
Jen-Kan Yu
,
W. Goddard
,
J. Heath
Nature
2008
Corpus ID: 4407919
Thermoelectric materials interconvert thermal gradients and electric fields for power generation or for refrigeration…
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources
B. Tian
,
Xiaolin Zheng
,
+5 authors
Charles M. Lieber
Nature
2007
Corpus ID: 2688078
Solar cells are attractive candidates for clean and renewable power; with miniaturization, they might also serve as integrated…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Piezoelectric Nanogenerators Based on Zinc Oxide Nanowire Arrays
Zhong Lin Wang
,
Jinhui Song
Science
2006
Corpus ID: 4810693
We have converted nanoscale mechanical energy into electrical energy by means of piezoelectric zinc oxide nanowire (NW) arrays…
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Nanowire dye-sensitized solar cells
M. Law
,
Lori E. Greene
,
Justin C. Johnson
,
R. Saykally
,
P. Yang
Nature Materials
2005
Corpus ID: 37360993
Excitonic solar cells1—including organic, hybrid organic–inorganic and dye-sensitized cells (DSCs)—are promising devices for…
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Extracellular electron transfer via microbial nanowires
G. Reguera
,
K. McCarthy
,
Teena Mehta
,
Julie S. Nicoll
,
M. Tuominen
,
D. Lovley
Nature
2005
Corpus ID: 4425287
Microbes that can transfer electrons to extracellular electron acceptors, such as Fe(iii) oxides, are important in organic matter…
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Single-nanowire electrically driven lasers
X. Duan
,
Yu Huang
,
R. Agarwal
,
Charles M. Lieber
Nature
2003
Corpus ID: 4417446
Electrically driven semiconductor lasers are used in technologies ranging from telecommunications and information storage to…
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers
Michael H. Huang
,
S. Mao
,
+6 authors
P. Yang
Science
2001
Corpus ID: 4283353
Room-temperature ultraviolet lasing in semiconductor nanowire arrays has been demonstrated. The self-organized, <0001> oriented…
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Indium phosphide nanowires as building blocks for nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices
X. Duan
,
Yu Huang
,
Yi Cui
,
Jianfang Wang
,
Charles M. Lieber
Nature
2001
Corpus ID: 4427549
Nanowires and nanotubes carry charge and excitons efficiently, and are therefore potentially ideal building blocks for nanoscale…
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
A laser ablation method for the synthesis of crystalline semiconductor nanowires
A. Morales
,
Charles M. Lieber
Science
1998
Corpus ID: 10392634
A method combining laser ablation cluster formation and vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth was developed for the synthesis of…
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