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Going with the electron flow

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Electric currents can be steered by coupling the flow of electrons and ions in films of gold nanoparticles coated with ionic ligands.

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Figure 1: Controlling electric currents in films of metal nanoparticles.

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  1. Xi Yu and Vincent M. Rotello are at the Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA,

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