I don’t do it, but a professor I work down the corridor from, Max, does make them. He gets a bunch of organic molecules (ones made of carbon, not molecules from a nice farm…) and joins them together to make wires. The way in which they are put together, and the way in which electrons can move around, mean that they behave like regular wires (made of metal) but are way smaller. Because we can make these things in very defined ways, you can make wires with all sorts of properties, and because they’re so small, you can make very small electronic things from them. If you want to make these things, you need to study chemistry!
I don’t do it either, so I am not “good” at molecular electronics. Science has many aspects, and scientists usually specialise in particular areas or topics. We need to know about other areas of science, but usually we are only “good” in our own specialist area.
Nope. I’m completely unqualified in this area. Though my boyfriend is very good at this. His research is based on silicon nanowires but I don’t really understand much of what he does. He uses some areas of chemistry to make them as well as physics. He spends much of his time growing wires and testing their conductivity.
I must be terrible at molecular electronics, because I don’t even know what it means. Can you explain what it is, whathisface?
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I don’t do it, but a professor I work down the corridor from, Max, does make them. He gets a bunch of organic molecules (ones made of carbon, not molecules from a nice farm…) and joins them together to make wires. The way in which they are put together, and the way in which electrons can move around, mean that they behave like regular wires (made of metal) but are way smaller. Because we can make these things in very defined ways, you can make wires with all sorts of properties, and because they’re so small, you can make very small electronic things from them. If you want to make these things, you need to study chemistry!
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I don’t do it either, so I am not “good” at molecular electronics. Science has many aspects, and scientists usually specialise in particular areas or topics. We need to know about other areas of science, but usually we are only “good” in our own specialist area.
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Nope. I’m completely unqualified in this area. Though my boyfriend is very good at this. His research is based on silicon nanowires but I don’t really understand much of what he does. He uses some areas of chemistry to make them as well as physics. He spends much of his time growing wires and testing their conductivity.
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Sorry, nothing to contribute. Don’t really understand the term, certainly not good at it 🙂
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