Sentences with phrase «gold nanostructures»
These findings, published recently by the high - impact journal Nanoscale («Tessellated gold nanostructures from Au144 (SCH2CH2Ph) 60 molecular precursors and their use in organic solar cell enhancement»), represent a game - changing innovation that holds the potential to take solar power mainstream and dramatically decrease the world's dependence on traditional, resource - based sources of energy, says Giovanni Fanchini from Western's Faculty of Science.
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Gold nanostructures: engineering their plasmonic properties for biomedical applications.
The samples in the latest experiment were formed from individual polygon gold nanostructures, measuring about 5 nanometers across, connected to single DNA - segment strands with 84 base pairs.
By «crumpling» to increase the surface area of graphene - gold nanostructures, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign have improved the sensitivity of these materials, opening the door to novel opportunities in electronics and optical sensing applications.
Today, gold nanostructures have found a role in a wide variety of applications, including bio-imaging, drug delivery, toxic gas detection and biosensors.
The surprise finding means that pure water microdroplets can serve as microreactors for the production of gold nanostructures.
Not exact matches
The research involved engineering nanostructures containing both gold and cisplatin, a conventional chemotherapy drug.
The team is exploring ways to utilize the nanostructures for various catalytic and biomedical applications and to refine their technique to create gold films.
In a recent publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers from Dynamic Biosensors and the Kurt - Schwabe - Institut Meinsberg have demonstrated the persistent electrical actuation of a large DNA - origami nanostructure on a gold microelectrode.
Important achievements have been done in the preparation and characterization of: i) Gold nanoparticles stabilised through thiol derivatised organic - and bio-molecules; ii) nanocomposite coatings for low friction and high wear resistance applications and iii) new nanostructured materials for hydrogen storage.