By applying an innovative theoretical analysis to observations from a first - of - its - kind experimental setup, LANP graduate student Bob Zheng and postdoctoral research associate Alejandro Manjavacas created a methodology that solar engineers can use to determine the electricity - producing potential for any arrangement
of metallic nanoparticles.
In most cases, industrial production
of metallic nanoparticles involves chemical reduction in liquid solutions, which requires the design of product - specific solutions.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has developed a new, cost - efficient method of producing various types
of metallic nanoparticles.
The solvent system could improve the combined use
of metallic nanoparticles and DNA based materials.
This is done by infusing the fibres of the cellulose aerogels with a solution
of metallic nanoparticles.
Not exact matches
One
of the key issues in nanoplasmonics is the interaction between
metallic nanoparticles at the nanoscale.
For example, some
metallic nanoparticles convert light into plasmons, waves
of electrons that flow like a fluid across a particle's surface.
Plasmons are waves
of electrons that slosh like a fluid across the surface
of tiny
metallic nanoparticles.
«Efficient method
of producing
metallic nanoparticles.»
Metallic alloy
nanoparticles — particles ranging from about a billionth to 100 billionths
of a meter in size — are a critical ingredient in such processes.
Metallic nanoparticles are some
of the smallest particles.
Rice University chemists who developed a unique form
of graphene have found a way to embed
metallic nanoparticles that turn the material into a useful catalyst for fuel cells and other applications.
LANP researchers study light - capturing nanomaterials, including
metallic nanoparticles that convert light into plasmons, waves
of electrons that flow like a fluid across the particles» surface.
«One
of the interesting phenomena that occurs when you shine light on a
metallic nanoparticle or nanostructure is that you can excite some subset
of electrons in the metal to a much higher energy level,» said Zheng, who works with LANP Director and study co-author Naomi Halas.
An important class
of these nanoreactors has a «yolk & shell» architecture like an egg: a catalytically active
metallic nanoparticle is surrounded by a shell consisting
of a polymeric network.
Scientists have, for the first time, traced the
nanoparticles taken up from the soil by crop plants and analysed the chemical states
of their
metallic elements.
HR - TEM images
of the sample obtained after laser irradiation confirmed formation
of Ag and Cu
metallic nanoparticles.
Seeman used robust two dimensional arrays
of DNA to make
metallic nanoparticles assemble into a checkerboard pattern.
Biodegradable lignin
nanoparticles infused with minimal amounts
of silver ions and coated with a cationic polyelectrolyte that show short term broad - spectrum antimicrobial activity, and offer an environmentally friendly alternative to
metallic silver
nanoparticles (Nat.
Electrochemically modifying individual
metallic nanoparticles and pairs
of such
nanoparticles enabled reversible tuning
of their optical properties, including charge transfer plasmon formation in
nanoparticle pairs.
Getting back to the Franco - German SolNanoTox project, scientists do not know what happens when the cells in your intestines, liver, etc. encounter
metallic or other
nanoparticles, some
of which may be naturally occurring.
The biological activity
of metallic silver
nanoparticles does not require that the silver combine with biological material in the body.