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Chemistry World September 5, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Beautiful Blooms From Nano-Weeds Chinese researchers have discovered a simple way to grow nanowire clusters and transform them into an array of tiny flower-like forms.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Alexander Hellemans	Strange Bedfellows Hybrid microcircuits, incorporating the desirable properties of the III-V compounds with those of cheap and ubiquitous silicon substrates, might soon find an important niche in electronics after all.
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Technology Research News July 30, 2003	Crystal cracks nurture nanowires Researchers from the University of Tokyo in Japan have devised a way to form titanium nanowires within an intentionally flawed sapphire.
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Chemistry World May 26, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Salt nanowire surprise Common table salt - normally a brittle crystalline material - can be pulled into nanowires that will extend by more than twice their own length without breaking
Chemistry World June 29, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Nanowire Shines Light on Subwavelength Microscopy Researchers in the US and Japan have created a nanoscopic 'torch' that shines visible laser light on nanoscale structures, imaging them with high resolution.
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Chemistry World May 29, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Nanocomposites From Bubbles An efficient new way to add nanowires or nanotubes into polymer films.
Chemistry World August 30, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Record proton conductivity claim withdrawn US chemists have withdrawn a claim that they created a crystalline nanowire that can conduct protons at world record speeds after other researchers, and subsequently they themselves, failed to reproduce the results.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley	Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper.
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Chemistry World February 13, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Clothes Power up Thanks to Nanowires Researchers in the US have invented a yarn that can generate electricity simply by being bent or twisted.
Technology Research News April 23, 2003	Casting yields non-carbon nanotubes Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have developed a method of making minuscule tubes of gallium nitride that have useful electrical and optical properties.
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IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Neil Savage	Silicon Nanowires Turn Heat to Electricity Thermoelectric converters could tap waste heat from power plants and microchips.
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Technology Research News August 25, 2004	Hybrid Nanowire Makes Transistor One challenge in making minuscule electronic devices from nanoscale components is wiring the components together. Researchers have found a way to transform sections of semiconducting silicon nanowires into metallic, or conducting, nickel silicide.
Chemistry World February 7, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Nano-welding with a light touch US researchers have found a new way to weld together metal nanowires - simply by bathing them in white light.
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