Copper nanowires for Future displays and solar panels

Researchers at Duke have demonstrated a new copper nanowire technology for making transparent flexible displays, solar panels and electronic circuitry.

These copper nanowires are also claimed to outperform carbon nanotubes and yet be cheaper than silver nanowire technology, enabling arrays of electronic circuits for display pixels, solar cells or processors, to be contained in a transparent layer that is printed on a flexible plastic substrate at room temperature.

The solution-based chemistry used to synthesize the copper nanowires allows for their self-assembly at specifically seeded sites, permitting their controlled growth into arrays that can be processed using high-volume roll-to-roll manufacturing processes that lower the cost of mass production compared with ITO today.

Next the researchers want solve several remaining problems, such as a tendency among the copper nanowires to clump together, thereby reducing their transparency. Also, a method for preventing oxidation, which decreases conductivity, will also be addressed in follow up studies at Duke.

Extreme Creatures: Giant stork once roamed Indonesia

Creatures of huge size unknown to science or history sofar. Are they real?
Yes. It seems to be a true news. This is the link you could check.



http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-IN-Extreme-Creatures-Giant-stork-once-roamed-Indonesia-121310.aspx?et_cid=848814&et_rid=41416270&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scientificcomputing.com%2fnews-IN-Extreme-Creatures-Giant-stork-once-roamed-Indonesia-121310.aspx

Still the question remains - Is this is the only thing that we did not know that existed? May be countless number of things. Time will tell the truth if we dig enough