Single drop of ethanol to revolutionise nanosensor manufacture

NanoTech Lab engineers have developed a new technique to make the manufacture of nanosensors far less carbon-intensive, much cheaper, more efficient, and more versatile, substantially improving a key process in this trillion-dollar global industry.

The team has found a way to treat each sensor using a single drop of ethanol instead of the conventional process that involves heating materials to high temperatures.

This research, published in the journal of Advanced Functional Materials, is titled, ‘Capillary-driven self-assembled microclusters for highly performing UV detectors’.

The new method was discovered after the study’s lead author, postgraduate student Jayden (Xiaohu) Chen, accidentally splashed some ethanol onto a sensor while washing a crucible, in an incident that would usually destroy these sensitive devices.

This discovery has been published by several news agency around the world including EurekaAlert, EurasiaReview, Phys.org, Teller Report, SwiftTelecast, Scimex, TechCodeX, Todaynews24, The Lighthouse, etc.