![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090509061330im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Spiraling Nanotrees Offer New Twist on Growth of Nanowires
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May 1, 2008
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When University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry professor Song Jin and graduate student Matthew Bierman accidentally made some nanowire pine tree shapes one day--complete with tall trunks and branches that tapered in length as they spiraled upward--they knew they'd stumbled upon something peculiar.
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