Issue 20, 2013
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Nanoscale

Nanowire thermometers

Peng Peng,a   Zhihua Su,a   Zhihong Liu,a   Qingkai Yu,*b   Zhengdong Cheng*c  and  Jiming Bao*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
E-mail: jbao@uh.edu

b Ingram School of Engineering, and Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA
E-mail: qingkai.yu@txstate.edu

c Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
E-mail: zcheng@tamu.edu

Abstract

We report the design and demonstration of nanowire temperature reporters. Metal alloys with tunable melting points were used to create nanowires in nanopores of anodic aluminum oxide using mechanical pressure injection. When exposed to temperature above their melting points, nanowires began to break up into disconnected shorter nanorods due to Rayleigh instability. A wide range of temperature can be probed conveniently by measuring electrical resistance of nanowires.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3NR03086E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Jun 2013
Accepted
14 Aug 2013
First published
20 Aug 2013

Nanoscale, 2013,5, 9532-9535

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P. Peng, Z. Su, Z. Liu, Q. Yu, Z. Cheng and J. Bao, Nanoscale, 2013, 5, 9532 DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03086E

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