Gold Nanoparticles made by researchers, and trusted by researchers.
Gold Nanoparticles made by researchers, and trusted by researchers.
Not exact matches
To take an up - close look at the
gold nanoparticles in action, the researchers
made a vacuum - tight microfluidic chamber by pressing two silicon - nitride semiconductor chips together with a 150 - nanometer spacer in between.
That revolution in medical diagnostics could be
made possible by products like the Verigene system, which uses DNA - coated
gold nanoparticles to identify telltale proteins and important genes.
Gold nanoparticles can
make the pink «get ready to be a parent» mark on home pregnancy tests much easier to read.
The device consists of a
gold nanoparticle, about 100 nanometers in diameter, embedded in a tiny cantilever — a miniature diving board —
made of silicon nitride.
In the new study, Kelly and her colleagues chose to
make rod - shaped
gold nanoparticles the stars of their new molecular movies.
To use this motion - sensing technique in a practical device, Aksyuk and Roxworthy embedded the
gold nanoparticle in a microscopic - scale mechanical structure — a vibrating cantilever, sort of a miniature diving board — that was a few micrometers long,
made of silicon nitride.
Until now, however, the only reliable way to
make gold nanoparticles was to combine the
gold precursor chloroauric acid with a reducing agent such as sodium borohydride.
An experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a «bewildering» surprise, according to the Stanford scientists who
made the discovery: a new way of creating
gold nanoparticles and nanowires using water droplets.
«Utilizing the
nanoparticle carrier with a core
made of
gold nanoparticles also
made it possible to obtain evidence for the entry of
nanoparticles into the tumor; we looked at the tumor under the electron microscope and observed the particles,» said post-doctoral fellow and first author Xiangsheng Liu.
«The unique electronic structure of graphene along with its particular surface topography
make it an ideal substrate for decoration with
gold nanoparticles.
The DNA - modified
nanoparticles —
gold in this case — are positioned on a pre-patterned template
made of complementary DNA.
Researchers at HZB in co-operation with Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin (HU, Berlin) have
made an astonishing observation: they were investigating the formation of
gold nanoparticles in a solvent and observed that the
nanoparticles had not distributed themselves uniformly, but instead were self - assembled into small clusters.
An experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a «bewildering» surprise, according to the Stanford scientists who
made the discovery: a new way of creating
gold nanoparticles...
To determine whether solid
nanoparticle catalysts exhibit a related type of chemical communication, a team led by Peng Chen of Cornell University scrutinized
nanoparticles made of either
gold or palladium as the materials mediated various types of model catalytic reactions.
The
gold - platinum
nanoparticles, which are about hundred thousand times thinner than a human hair, also are efficient at converting laser radiation into heat and killing the cancer cell,
making them promising for another cancer treatment known as photo - thermal therapy.
NanoHybrids
makes the most reproducible and highly characterized
Gold Nanoparticles available.
The use of their newly developed composite of black phosphorous,
gold nanoparticles, and titanate lanthamum as a photocatalyst, the researchers commented, has
made it possible to produce hydrogen from water and broadband sunlight, an innovation they expect will contribute significantly to solving environmental issues.