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Integrating synthetic nanowires into functional nanodevices by bottom-up approaches is strategically important for building next generation of nanosystems. However, efficient manipulating of either big amounts of nanowires or individual ones is still a big challenge. Here we present a simple but versatile method of positioning and aligning nanowires by ‘hydro tweezers’: a micro stream hydrodynamically controlled by two sheath flows. By adjusting the flow rates of the sheath flows and the focused micro stream containing nanowires, width, density and position of the assembled nanowire array can be readily tuned using one single design. This method can be used to align and position both a large scale of nanowires and a single line of nanowires to designated positions, offering a general pathway for assembly of nanosystems.
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Liu, M., Peng, Y., Guo, Q., Luo, J., Yang, J. (2010). Manipulating a Micro Stream by ‘Hydro Tweezers’ for Integration of Nanodevices. In: Liu, H., Ding, H., **ong, Z., Zhu, X. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6425. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16587-0_59
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