Nanorobotic spot welding: Controlled metal deposition with attogram precision from copper-filled carbon nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-63

  Dong, Lixin ^a   Tao, Xinyong ^b   Zhang, Li ^a   Zhang, Xiaobin ^b   Nelson, Bradley J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; COPPER; DEPOSITION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CONTROLLED METAL DEPOSITION; COPPER-FILLED CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; NANOROBOTIC SPOT WELDING;

SPOT WELDING;

COPPER; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ROBOTICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COPPER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTUBES; ROBOTICS;

EID: 33846867712     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl061980+     Document Type: Article

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