The team headed by Mehmet Bayindir with Turkey's National Nanotechnology Research Center said Friday the new method included a new thermal size-reduction process to produce indefinitely long nanowire and nanotube arrays with different materials.
He said the new technique could yield semiconducting and piezoelectric nanowire and nanotube arrays hundreds of metres long, with nanowire diameters less than 15 nm, or nanometer, which equals to one billionth of a metre.
The new invention is set make the cover of the Nature Material magazine's July edition.
