- Title
- Ready to fly
- Technique
- SEM
- Description
- Nanostructures of Nafion polymer capped with Au. These nanostructures are then released in water acting as self-propelled nanomotors triggered by an ion exchange process. The ion-exchange process is harnessed to perform chemistry on the fly, by exchanging protons with heavy metal ions in water which can have impact in water remediation. The image aims at illustrating different stages of the particles from the normal manufacture in the wafer, then as if they were being torn from the wafer, breaking their roots to finally being released into the water as swimmers.
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- Technical specifications
- The Janus nanostructures have dimensions of 1um in length by 300-200 nm in width. The nanostructures were fabricated on a silicon wafer through colloidal lithography and reactive ion etc
