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‘Spincasting’ Could Influence Optics

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RALEIGH, N.C., April 8, 2011 — A technique called “spincasting,” which uses centrifugal force to distribute a liquid onto a solid substrate, is being investigated with the hope that it can create thin films of nanoparticles on an underlying substrate for optics and electronics applications. For this study, researchers from the University of North Carolina first dispersed magnetic nanoparticles coated with ligands into a solution. The ligands, small organic molecules that bond directly to metals, facilitate the even distribution of the nanoparticles in the solution — and, later, on the substrate...Read full article

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    Published: April 2011
    Glossary
    electronics
    That branch of science involved in the study and utilization of the motion, emissions and behaviors of currents of electrical energy flowing through gases, vacuums, semiconductors and conductors, not to be confused with electrics, which deals primarily with the conduction of large currents of electricity through metals.
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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