A silicon-based lifeform, also known as a silicon cycle life form or simply silicon creature, was a corporeal lifeform that used silicon as the basis of its structure and life functions rather than carbon. While silicon-based lifeforms generally did not
With silicon-based life forms (computer technology) soon set to outnumber the number of people on the planet it is up to us to put measures into place now to ensure carbon and silicon can coexist safely in a changing world.Jeff Hudson...
Several science fiction stories feature silicon-based life-forms--sentient crystals, gruesome golden grains of sand and even a creature whose spoor or scat was bricks of silica left behind. The novellas are good reading, but there are a few problems with the chemistry. Image: HONG YANG,Universi...
and silicon-based life in water, or on an oxygen-rich planet, would be all but impossible as any free silicon would react quickly and furiously to form silicate rock. And that’s pretty much the end of the story.
Practically explore the mystery of the physique of the dinosaurs suspected of being silicon-based life forms in the age of dinosaurs on the earth. MORE Win-win Memorabilia 1. On December 28, 2001, the residual value of the ground assets was purchased, and Yang Qingwen delivered the ...
In short, those who are pro-e/acc want technology and innovation to be moving as fast as possible. "Technocapital can usher in the next evolution of consciousness, creating unthinkable next-generation lifeforms and silicon-based awareness," the backers of the concept explained in the first-...
3.1. PSi-based potentiometric biosensors Potentiometric biosensors use porous silicon as an electrode of an electrochemical cell (Thust et al. 1996). The PSi wafer has the function both to immobilise the biological element and to be sensitive to the chemical variations produced by t...
Other silicon-based life forms are said to exist there but few appeared in the books. In the Star Wars universe, at least two life forms are based on silicon, and they live in space: the Mynocks and the Space slugs. A silicon-based life form, the Horta, appears also in the Star ...
A component is a unit cell that is combined with other unit cells to build a circuit, such as a waveguide, directional coupler, heater, grating coupler, etc. Heterogeneous silicon photonics lags hybrid by approximately two years. For comparison, data for InP-based integrated photonics is also ...
Nanostructured silicon has been extensively studied in two forms: porous silicon and silicon nanocrystallites. Porous silicon is formed by the anodic etching of crystalline silicon wafers in an HF-based electrolyte107 or by using a stain etch of HF/HNO3 without any applied voltage.108 The resultin...