Kitchen salat used for creating silicion nanostructures

Kitchen salt (NaCl) reduces the cost of production of silicon nanostructures. Melting and absorbing heat at a critical magnetotermic moment reduction, salt is not allowed to collapse the pores and clumping of domains in large crystals of silicon. After all the salt can be washed with water and used again. Professor. David Xiulei Ji from Oregon State University believes that the cheap and salt-based industrial-scale production of high quality silicon nanostructures should it become a reality. Previous methods were expensive and allow for a small number of nanostructures. Cheaper technologies did not come true because require the use of high temperatures. Nanostructures can be used for example in photonics, bio-imaging, sensors, drug delivery, energy storage or in thermoelectric materials. Ji believes that the first fire will go batteries whose life is almost two times longer than their modern counterparts. During the experiments Ji NaCl and magnesium were mixed with diatomaceous earth. At 801 degrees Celsius starting to melt salt (and thus the absorption of heat). Importantly, NaCl did not contaminate anything. Americans point out that the process of scaling up to a commercial level seems feasible. In the same wayfrom mixed oxides were obtained SiO2/GeO2 composite Si / Ge. It will be used in the manufacture of semiconductors and thermoelectric materials.

Source: Oregon State University