Wires on water

Yang, Peidong

Peidong Yang is in the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. e-mail: [email protected]

Nature 425(6955):p 243-244, September 18, 2003.

A centuries-old technique for transporting timber is the inspiration for a new method of assembling nanowires into large-scale, ordered patterns that could form the basis of a new generation of electronic devices.