Harvard Scientists Create High-Speed Integrated Nanowire Circuits — This sounds like cold fusion to me, but can you imagine the implications if it could be commercialized? But Harvard? Hard to imagine.

Chemists and engineers at Harvard University have made robust circuits from minuscule nanowires that align themselves on a chip of glass during low-temperature fabrication, creating rudimentary electronic devices that offer solid performance without high-temperature production or high-priced silicon.

The researchers, led by chemist Charles M. Lieber and engineer Donhee Ham, produced circuits at low temperature by running a nanowire-laced solution over a glass substrate, followed by regular photolithography to etch the pattern of a circuit.

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