Figure 1
From: Electric field assisted alignment of monoatomic carbon chains
(a) The scheme of the experimental setup used for the controlled deposition of carbon chains stabilised with gold NPs. The orientation of the electric field inside the capacitor is indicated by red arrows, (b) the histogram of the NP size distribution obtained by the dynamical laser scattering analysis. The percentage of gold NPs of the size d is shown in the vertical axis, (c) the carbon wire end-capped with gold NPs of different radii in the presence of the static electric field. The red arrows show the directions of Coulomb forces acting upon the gold NPs.
