Spider-silk-based fabrication of nanogaps and wires

Nanotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 25, 2012, Pages

  Morales, Piero ^a,b   Rapone, Bruno ^a   Caruso, Mario ^b   Flammini, Davide ^b  

^a Centro Ricerche della Casaccia   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODES; CONDUCTIVE FIBERS; ELECTRICAL BEHAVIORS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; NANOGAPS; NANOSTENCILS; ULTRA-THIN;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; NANOWIRES;

FABRICATION;

GOLD; NANOWIRE; SILK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPIDER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GOLD; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; SILK; SPIDERS;

EID: 84861880855     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/23/25/255304     Document Type: Article

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