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- noun Plural form of
nanorod .
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"Potential applications range from fast prototyping for CMOS nanoelectronics to creating prototype optical components and meta-materials, from fabricating 3D nanoparticles to shape-matching templates for the self-assembly of nanoscale objects such as nanorods or nanotubes."
Gizmodo Mark Wilson 2010
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"Previously developed nanostructures such as nanorods were like chopsticks on the nanoscale," Zhang says.
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New Silicon Nanorod Solar Cells Use 99% Less Material Silicon-nanorods – Inhabitat about mission submit a story shop advertise with us support us press contact sign up
New Silicon Nanorod Solar Cells Use 99% Less Material Silicon-nanorods – Inhabitat 2010
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The nanorods are assembled into a “carpet” and embedded into a transparent polymer to make flexible solar cells that use only 1% of the material needed to make conventional silicon cells.
New Silicon Nanorod Solar Cells Use 99% Less Material | Inhabitat 2010
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Lin and his team spent a year engineering a coating from seven layers of silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide nanorods.
Sustainable: Solar 2009
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Using a technique called oblique angle deposition, the researchers deposited silica nanorods at an angle of precisely 45 degrees on top of a thin film of aluminum nitride, which is a semiconducting material used in advanced light-emitting diodes (LEDs).
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To achieve a very low refractive index, silica nanorods are deposited at an angle of precisely 45 degrees on top of a thin film of aluminum nitride.
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You can see in the photo that the nanorods grow upright like trees and have little spaces between them.
Material World: Carbon nanotubes Tracy Staedter 2008
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Lin and his team spent a year engineering a coating from seven layers of silicon dioxide and titanium dioxide nanorods.
Sustainable: Nano-Coating Spells End for Rotating Solar Panels 2008
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Researchers found that if they added a layer of copper nanorods to the bottom of a metal vessel, it helped increase the boiling efficiency of water inside.
Material World: Carbon nanotubes Tracy Staedter 2008
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