Daniela Iacopino

TL;DR: A new class of near-infrared photodetectors comprising Au nanorods-ZnO nanowire hybrid systems showed a large photoresponse under radiation wavelengths between 650 and 850 nm, accompanied by an "ultrafast" transient with a time scale of 250 ms, more than 1 order of magnitude faster than the ZnO response under radiation above band gap.

TL;DR: In this article, the transport characteristics of 70nm-diameter platinum nanowires (NWs), fabricated using a pore-templated electrodeposition process and individually contacted using a focused ion beam (FIB) method, are reported.

TL;DR: In this paper, a DNA-templated self-assembly of conducting gold nanowires between gold electrodes lithographically patterned on a silicon oxide substrate was reported. But the results of these characterizations show these wires to be 20 nm high and 40 nm wide, to be continuous between interdigitated gold electrodes with an interelectrode spacing of 0.2 or 1.0 μm, and to possess a resistivity of 2 × 10-4 Ωm.

TL;DR: The grasses not only show the common pollen spectral features but also a sharp band at 675–680 nm: this observation demonstrates the presence of chlorophyll-a, which could, in principle, be used in the real-time atmospheric identification of grass pollen, which are known carriers of aeroallergens.