Sentences with phrase «niobium nanowires»

In addition, the material is highly flexible and could be woven into fabrics, enabling wearable forms; individual niobium nanowires are just 140 nanometers in diameter — 140 billionths of a meter across, or about one - thousandth the width of a human hair.

Yarn made of niobium nanowires, seen here in a scanning electron microscope image (background), can be used to make very efficient supercapacitors, MIT researchers have found.

In this new work, he and his colleagues have shown that desirable characteristics for such devices, such as high power density, are not unique to carbon - based nanoparticles, and that niobium nanowire yarn is a promising an alternative.

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The new approach uses yarns, made from nanowires of the element niobium, as the electrodes in tiny supercapacitors (which are essentially pairs of electrically conducting fibers with an insulator between).