The "Joule Heating" paper has been published, finally.

In this paper we show the phase transformation and annealing of nanosized bundle of the material Mo6S3I6 into a solid molybdenum wire. It was accomplished using the in-situ TEM probing method in which we contacted the bundle, and then, by driving an high electric current through it, the bundle transformed and annealed.
During all of our experiments we record everything into a movie. These movies you can find at YouTube, as seen below.



Nanowire transformation and annealing by Joule heating
Nanotechnology 21 (2010) 165704
Direct link to paper and abstract at the Nanotechnology journal

In-situ electromechanical resonance of nanowire

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-FxsoffgFM&hl=sv&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&hd=1]

New movies on annealing of nanowires

I have put up the annealing nanowire movies at YouTube.

Movie of real time electron diffraction on nanowire annealing.
Movie showing a nanowire straightening out due to electric heating.