Monday, February 3, 2014

There´s hope for a Good Hair Day for a BALD Engineer!

Good hair day: New technique grows tiny 'hairy' materials at the microscale

"(Nanowerk News) Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory attacked a tangled problem by developing a new technique to grow tiny “hairy” materials that assemble themselves at the microscale"

Actually there is more than hope, there is a also a hair vax to go with the micro hair - and yes it is made by ALD!

"In one experiment the researchers used a process called atomic layer deposition that deposits a molecule-thick layer of material over the entire hairy structure, like a fresh blanket of snow, to add a layer of semiconductor material. Semiconductors are essential ingredients in many technologies, such as solar cells and electronics"



Argonne materials scientists announced a new technique to grow these little forests at the microscale (the scale shows 100 micrometers, which is about the diameter of a single human hair). (Image by Alexey Snezhko and Igor Aronson)

Read more: Good hair day: New technique grows tiny 'hairy' materials at the microscale
For all Moomin fans the resembelence with the electrified Hatifnats is stunning :-)


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