Sentences with phrase «shaping gold nanoparticles»
A team at the University of Leeds has discovered that shaping gold nanoparticles in the form of minuscule tubes sees them take on a number of new properties, including the ability to be heated up to destroy cancer cells.
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In the new study, Kelly and her colleagues chose to make rod - shaped gold nanoparticles the stars of their new molecular movies.
Not exact matches
«Our fundamental contribution in this work is to judiciously prepare a star - shaped block co-polymer in which the inner block has the capability to coordinate with metal precursors while the outer block allows photo - responsive materials to interact, which in turn renders the crafting of photo - responsive gold nanoparticles for light - enabled reversible and reliable self - assembly.»
The spherical gold nanoparticles can be replaced with more complex shaped nanomaterials — such as hollow nanoparticles, nanorods, or nanotubes — to render a better absorption of near - infrared light to penetrate biological tissues.
The electron microscope images, or micrographs, showed complex crystalline structures that formed in large part thanks to the shape of the gold nanoparticles.
Nanoparticle expert Yu Seok Youn and his team have engineered gold particles so that they have the same rodlike shape and size as the virus.
The researchers looked at how microbial communities (from waste - water - activated sludge) behaved when exposed to gold nanoparticles with various surface coatings and shapes.