«Thermodynamics and Kinetics
of Nanoclusters Controlling Gas - to - Particle Nucleation,» Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113 (24): 10354 - 10370.
Researchers apply current pulses in a magnetic field to boost the magnetic ordering, that is, the number
of nanoclusters pointing in the same direction.
Researchers apply current pulses to control the number
of nanoclusters pointing in the same direction, as depicted in the «disordered» versus «ordered» illustrations.
«We can control the number
of nanoclusters pointing in the same direction, which affects the superconducting properties of the junction.»
«We could then relate this to the structural and compositional characteristic
of the nanoclusters, like size, number of metal atoms, and number of ligands.
Not exact matches
«Thermodynamic Stability
of Ligand - Protected Metal
Nanoclusters» (DOI: 10.1038 / ncomms15988) was co-authored by Giannis Mpourmpakis, assistant professor
of chemical and petroleum engineering, and PhD candidate Michael G. Taylor.
All
of the air filters that were tested effectively removed
nanocluster particles smaller than 3 nanometres, which means that particles
of this size are unlikely to enter indoor areas.
He deposited these
nanoclusters onto a sheet
of graphite, a material that conducts electricity.
On the left, a scanning tunneling microscope image captures the bright shape
of the moly sulfide
nanocluster on a graphite surface.
The team's findings, says Kuznetsov, not only expand our fundamental understanding
of how light interacts with
nanoclusters of metallic particles, but have both theoretical and practical applications.
Researchers at the University
of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Colorado State University, USA, have for the first time ever determined the dynamical behaviour
of the ligand layer
of a water - soluble gold
nanocluster in solution.
The paper «Experimental determination
of the energy difference between competing isomers
of deposited, size - selected gold
nanoclusters», by D.M. Foster, R. Ferrando and R.E. Palmer, is published in Nature Communications, volume 9, page 1323 (2018) and is available open access.
All cells were targeted with conjugates
of gold nanoparticles (NPs) through an antibody - receptor - endocytosis -
nanocluster mechanism that produced NP clusters.
Bryan Goldsmith, a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Plank Society in Berlin and a young scientist attending the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting and his colleagues recently applied a data analytics tool called subgroup discovery to see how physical and chemical properties relate to the structure
of gold
nanoclusters containing varying numbers
of atoms.
The algorithm rediscovered the known property that gold
nanoclusters with even number
of atoms are semiconducting, whereas those with an odd number
of atoms are metallic.
A gold electrode coated with
nanoclusters of indium phosphide absorb incoming photons
of light (that is the wavy line marked «hv» in the image).