News tagged with gold atoms
Study reveals principles behind stability and electronic properties of gold nanoclusters
Jul 14, 2008 |
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A report published in the July 8 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is the first to describe the principles behind the stability and electronic properties of tiny nanoc ...
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Held together by metal-metal bonds: a large ring containing 36 gold atoms
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 14, 2008 |
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Chinese researchers have recently made a “golden crown” with a diameter of only a few nanometers. It is a large ring-shaped molecule containing 36 gold atoms. The lords of the ring, a team of researchers from ...
Researchers heat up gold to surprising effect: It gets harder not softer
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Common sense tells us that when you heat something up it gets softer, but a team of researchers, led by University of Toronto chemistry and physics professor R.J. Dwayne Miller, has demonstrated the exact ...
New rotors could help develop nanoscale generators
May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a molecular structure that could help create current-generating machines at the nanoscale.
Measurement technique probes surface structure of gold nanocrystals
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 10, 2008 |
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In the hands of jewelers, gold can be fashioned into rings and pendants of long-lasting beauty. But, when reduced in size to nanocrystals containing a few thousand atoms, this noble metal is a surprisingly ...
Magnetic atoms of gold, silver and copper have been obtained
Feb 28, 2008 |
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An international team led by Physics and Chemistry teams from the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and directed by Professor Jose Javier Saiz Garitaonandia, has achieved, ...
Oxygen in place of chlorine: Towards a more environmentally friendly propylene oxide synthesis
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Propylene oxide is an important bulk chemical that is used primarily in the production of polyurethane plastics. Currently, propylene oxide is usually made from propylene (propene) in a process that uses ...
Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have developed a new instrument that allows them to control the size of nanoclusters — groups of 10 ...
Platinum nanocatalyst could aid drugmakers
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoparticles combining platinum and gold act as superefficient catalysts, but chemists have struggled to create them in an industrially useful form. Rice University chemists have answered the call this week ...
Controlling the size of nanoclusters
Aug 19, 2008 |
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Melissa Patterson, a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow at Stony Brook University (SBU), will give a talk at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Philadelphia on controlling the size of nanoclusters, research she performed ...
Nano sculptures in gold
Aug 01, 2008 |
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If someone is charged up, the colour of their face might change, but they don't immediately pull off one of their arms, only to reattach it as a third leg. With some molecules, however, the situation is quite ...
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