Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Stable single atomic silver wires assembling into a circuitry-connectable nanoarray

  • Yaxin Chen,
  • Daiming Tang,
  • Zhiwei Huang,
  • Xi Liu,
  • Jun Chen,
  • Takashi Sekiguchi,
  • Weiye Qu,
  • Junxiao Chen,
  • Dongrun Xu,
  • Yoshio Bando,
  • Xiaolei Hu,
  • Xiaoping Wang,
  • Dmitri Golberg,
  • Xingfu Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21462-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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One-dimensional atomic metal wires can exhibit useful properties distinct from their bulk equivalents; however they typically suffer from limited stability. Here, Chen et al create atomic silver wires which are stable and exhibit a temperature dependent metal to insulator transition.