Sentences with phrase «form gold nanoparticles»

That material attracts water - soluble metal precursors, which use the space within the polymer hairs as nano - reactors to form gold nanoparticles.

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A «Trojan horse» treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists.

To do this, they «chemically assembled a series of double - dot SETs by anchoring two gold nanoparticles between the nanogap electrodes with alkanedithiol molecules to form a self - assembled monolayer,» explained Yutaka Majima, a professor in the Materials and Structures Laboratory at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

The electron microscope images, or micrographs, showed complex crystalline structures that formed in large part thanks to the shape of the gold nanoparticles.

The research is described in this Brookhaven National Laboratory news release «Scientists Guide Gold Nanoparticles to Form «Diamond» Superlattices ``:

When mixed and annealed, the tetrahedral arrays formed superlattices with long - range order where the positions of the gold nanoparticles mimics the arrangement of carbon atoms in a lattice of diamond, but at a scale about 100 times larger.

One example is gold, which can be highly reactive and excellent catalysts in a nanoparticle form.

Each individual DNA segment and gold nanoparticle naturally zipped together with a partner to form the double - stranded DNA segment with a gold particle at either end.

A team at the University of Leeds has discovered that shaping gold nanoparticles in the form of minuscule tubes sees them take on a number of new properties, including the ability to be heated up to destroy cancer cells.