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Scientists synthesize gold to shed light on cells' inner workings

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Highly fluorescent gold nanoclusters for sub-cellular imaging have been synthesized by researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), one of the research institutes of Singapore's A*STAR (Agency ...





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Researchers heat up gold to surprising effect: It gets harder not softer

Researchers heat up gold to surprising effect: It gets harder not softer

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

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 ...


Gold Nanorods

Golden Nanorods for Medical Applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gold nanoparticles are under consideration for a number of biomedical applications, such as tumor treatment. A German-American research team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Hunter ...


All-in-1 nanoparticle: A Swiss Army knife for nanomedicine

All-in-one nanoparticle: A Swiss Army knife for nanomedicine

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Nanoparticles are being developed to perform a wide range of medical uses - imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one of these, researchers at the University ...


Hidden fingerprints revealed

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 15, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Hidden fingerprints can be now be revealed quickly and reliably thanks to two developments in nanotechnology. The news is reported in the latest edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Chemical Communications.


X marks the spot: Ions coldly go through NIST trap junction

X marks the spot: Ions coldly go through NIST trap junction

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a new ion trap that enables ions to go through an intersection while keeping their cool. Ten million times ...


Scientists Discover Gold Clusters Stabilize Platinum Electrocatalysts For Use in Fuel Cells

Scientists Discover Gold Clusters Stabilize Platinum Electrocatalysts For Use in Fuel Cells

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (39) | comments 0

Platinum is the most efficient electrocatalyst for accelerating chemical reactions in fuel cells for electric vehicles. In reactions during the stop-and-go driving of an electric car, however, the platinum ...


Scientists advance facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications.


High in Sodium: Highly Charged Tungsten Ions May Diagnose Fusion Energy Reactors

High in Sodium: Highly Charged Tungsten Ions May Diagnose Fusion Energy Reactors

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as health-food manufacturers work on developing the best possible sodium substitutes for low-salt diets, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have acquired ...


Measurement technique probes surface structure of gold nanocrystals

Measurement technique probes surface structure of gold nanocrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

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 ...


Controlling the size of nanoclusters

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...



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