News tagged with gold clusters
Bacterium helps formation of gold
Australian scientists have found that the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans catalyses the biomineralisation of gold by transforming toxic gold compounds to their metallic form using active cellular mechan ...
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Oxygen in place of chlorine: Towards a more environmentally friendly propylene oxide synthesis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Propylene oxide is an important bulk chemical that is used primarily in the production of polyurethane plastics. Currently, propylene oxide is usually made from propylene (propene) in a process that uses ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Finnish scientists unveil secrets of a chiral gold nanocluster
Researchers at the Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience Center of the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland) have resolved the structural, electronic and optical properties of a chiral gold nanocluster that remained a mystery ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 27, 2010 |
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Oxidation mechanisms at gold nanoclusters unraveled
Researchers believe that the puzzle of catalytic gold is now partially solved. Gold can catalyse an oxidation reaction by first oxidising itself. New research evidence on gold-oxide phase at room temperature ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Scientists synthesize gold to shed light on cells' inner workings
Highly fluorescent gold nanoclusters for sub-cellular imaging have been synthesized by researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), one of the research institutes of Singapore's A*STAR (Agency ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Preparing a homogenous haystack
(PhysOrg.com) -- What if you could turn the whole haystack into needles? Instead of hunting for one item, you’d have 10 billion of the desired items laid out neatly in front of you. That’s what researchers ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 28, 2011 |
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