Metal nanowires can have a variety of forms. Sometimes they appear in the order to non crystal, such as five symmetrical or helix. Electronic in the Pentagon pipe and spiral pipe winding.
This lack of crystal order is because the nanotubes in only one dimension (Zhou Xiang) reflect cyclical, while in other dimensions can have any order to the law of energy. For example, in some cases, nanowires can show five fold symmetry, this symmetry cannot be observed in nature, but can be found in a small amount of atoms contributing to clusters. The five fold symmetry equivalent atoms cluster twenty fold symmetry: Twenty surface body is low energy states of a cluster of atoms, but because the surface of the body twenty can not be repeated indefinitely in all directions and fill the whole space, this order is not observed in the crystal.
In electronic, optoelectronic and nano electronic and mechanical devices, nano wires may play an important role. It also can be used as in the synthesis of additives, quantum devices in the line, field emitters and biological molecular nano sensor.
Metal nanowires can be natural sunlight came together in a very small area in the crystal, light gathering ability is 15 times the average light intensity. Because of the wavelength diameter is smaller than the incident solar light nanowire crystals, can cause the nanowires inside the crystal and the surrounding light intensity of resonance. The study participants, just to get the doctor degree of research on Niels Pohl Peter Klogstrup explained that the photons through resonance emit more concentrated (solar energy conversion is realized in the process of dissemination in the photon), which helps to improve the conversion efficiency of solar energy, so that the solar cell technology nanowires get real ascension based on the.