Not exact matches
That's one potential application for a new
technology that combines water - repelling yet light - sensitive and water - absorbing materials into polymeric nano - reactors for creating photo - responsive
gold nanoparticles.
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 technique, described in Biomaterials, uses
gold nanoparticles and Raman scattering, a
technology previously developed by Qian and Nie for cancer cell detection (2007 Nature Biotech paper, 2011 Cancer Research paper on circulating tumor cells).
«We used
gold nanoparticles as the core of our nanocomplex,» explains team member Zhe Wang of the School of Life Sciences and
Technology at Xidian University and the National Institutes of Health.
Zhu Huai Yong, along with a group of researchers at Queensland University of
Technology's School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, found that many church windows across Europe were decorated with paint containing
gold nanoparticles (very basically: really tiny particles) of various sizes.
The
technology, described in a paper in the ACS journal Nano Letters, relies on a novel plasmonic photoelectrode architecture of light - activated
gold nanoparticles that harvest sunlight to drive photocatalytic reactions by efficient, non-radiative plasmon... Read more →