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Codex 0 Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-10-31A high-aspect-ratio silver structure with nanoscale cross section. Low intrinsic metal resistivity and sparse network connectivity make such wires useful for flexible transparent conductors, but nanowire junction resistance, insulating ligands, tarnish and mechanical connectivity can dominate device performance.
A solution route in which a polyol serves as solvent and reducing medium for metal nucleation and growth. For silver wires, controlled seed structure and capping chemistry can favour axial growth. Temperature, reduction rate, seed population, halides, oxygen and ligand coverage act together; the method is not defined by a single universal recipe.
A nanoscale particle containing two metallic elements. Spatial arrangements include disordered alloys, chemically ordered alloys, core-shell structures and segregated domains; composition alone does not specify the arrangement.
Formation of particles or films by delivering precursor droplets into a heated environment where solvent evaporation and precursor decomposition occur. Drying and reaction within droplets can produce dense or porous particles.
Addition or rearrangement of material in a nanocrystal. Solute addition, Ostwald ripening and oriented attachment are distinct mechanisms that can coexist.
A class of actin-based cargo motors; well-studied dimeric members coordinate their heads for processive stepping.
Coordination allows one head to remain associated while the other advances, supporting repeated motion along actin. Single-fluorophore localization experiments distinguish this alternating-head mechanism from a model in which the same head always leads. [ref]
Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition by Bruce Alberts and others. Chapters 3, 6 and 15, protein function, translation and cell signalling
The neck-associated structural element that amplifies conformational changes in the motor domain into displacement.
Bound light chains help stabilize this elongated region. Changing lever-arm geometry can change step size without requiring a corresponding change in the distance of every chemical event at the ATP-binding site. [ref]
Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition by Bruce Alberts and others. Chapters 3, 6 and 15, protein function, translation and cell signalling
A mechanically productive transition coupled to changes in nucleotide and actin binding. Load and isoform affect its detailed kinetics.
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