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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 ...





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Air-Purifying Church Windows Early Nanotechnology

Air-purifying church windows early nanotechnology

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 21, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (58) | comments 5

Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland University of Technology experts have discovered.


CSIRO scientist discovers natural 'invisible' gold

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 23, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (27) | comments 0

The search for these natural but 'invisible' nanoparticles is important. If they can be proved to exist, the knowledge will help give us a deeper understanding of how gold can be transported and deposited by geological processes, ...


Golden Nano-Dumbbells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 05, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Nanotechnology appears to be an unstoppable trend and it requires defined nanoscale building blocks and patterns. “A typical difficulty with the synthesis of nanostructures is the modification of nanoscale objects at specific ...


Award for turning wool into gold

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 9

A Victoria University (New Zealand) scientist has won a prestigious innovation award for turning pure New Zealand Merino wool into gold.


Fast, easy, and highly sensitive arsenic detection with gold nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention of arsenic poisoning usually brings to mind underhanded murder. However, the danger of arsenic poisoning from contaminated drinking water is far greater. Low concentrations of arsenic are found in ...


NIST reference materials are 'gold standard' for bio-nanotech research

NIST reference materials are 'gold standard' for bio-nanotech research

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 09, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued its first reference standards for nanoscale particles targeted for the biomedical research community—literally “gold standards” for labs studying ...


Noble metal nanoparticles deposit on the mycelium of growing fungi--an approach to new catalytic systems?

Chemistry /

created Sep 18, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- When fungi, such as penicillium, grow, they form a thread-like network, the mycelium. If the fungus is grown in a medium containing nanoscopic particles of a noble metal, the resulting mycelium is coated ...


Gold nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery

Gold nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs to be released in a controlled fashion.


Hollow gold nanospheres show promise for biomedical and other applications

Hollow gold nanospheres show promise for biomedical and other applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 22, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new metal nanostructure developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has already shown promise in cancer therapy studies and could be used for chemical and biological ...


Giza in the Nanoworld

Nano sculptures in gold

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 1

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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