Sentences with phrase «gold nanoparticles into»

Furthermore, as part of this study the team demonstrated the ability to position gold nanoparticles into prescribed 2D architectures less than two nanometers apart from each other along the crystal structure — a critical feature for future quantum devices and a significant technical advance for their scalable production, said co-lead author Wei Sun, Ph.D., Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.

That's because, as determined in subsequent experiments, the addition of water vapor served to transform gold nanoparticles into channel diggers, rather than the expected wire makers.

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.

«We envision that these photo - responsive polymer - capped gold nanoparticles could one day serve as nano - carriers for drug delivery into the body using our robust and reversible process for assembly and disassembly,» said Zhiqun Lin, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering.

The free electrons in both BP and gold nanoparticles are then transferred into the LTO semiconductor, where they act as an electric current for water splitting.

As the potential mother urinates into a sample - collection area and the pee migrates to a test strip, some of the antibody - coated gold nanoparticles on the strip latch onto the hCG, migrate up the paper, and collect at an indicator line.

These peptides can capture nonliving materials such as gold nanoparticles, incorporating them into the biofilms.

The work used gold nanoparticles and titanium dioxide as a catalyst to speed the process and determined that water serves as a co-catalyst for the reaction that transforms carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide.

«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.

A multidisciplinary team at the Centre d'Elaboration de Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales (CEMES, CNRS), working in collaboration with physicists in Singapore and chemists in Bristol (UK), have shown that crystalline gold nanoparticles aligned and then fused into long chains can be used to confine light energy down to the nanometer scale while allowing its long - range propagation.

«That nanoparticles of gold actually selectively transform methanol into formaldehyde is remarkable,» says Prof. Dr. Martin Muhler of the Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry at the RUB.

Research conducted at Japan's National Institute for Materials Science built on previous findings that gold nanoparticles can encourage stem cells in the bone marrow to differentiate into bone cells, and that specific biomolecules can inhibit or promote stem cell differentiation.

Researchers in Japan have shown that modified gold nanoparticles can be used to control the differentiation of stem cells into bone.

The underlying indium phosphide dissolves into the gold nanoparticles above, creating a gold alloy.

Melander's team, which is not involved in any of DeSimone's work, is currently testing their gold nanoparticles» ability to cross through a simulation of the blood — brain barrier that prevents many substances from passing into the brain from the bloodstream.

A team headed by Yen Hsun Su of the Research Center for Applied Sciences at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, dipped Bacopa caroliniana, a plant often used in aquaria, into a solution of gold nanoparticles.

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.

When stimulated with visible light, spherical gold nanoparticles absorb and convert light energy into heat.

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.

There's gold in them thar nanoparticles: a team of researchers at the University of Missouri - Columbia has been able to turn soybeans into gold nanoparticles, using nothing more than gold salts, water and soybeans.