News tagged with gold particles
Antihelium-4: Physicists nab new record for heaviest antimatter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Members of the international STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider -- a particle accelerator used to recreate and study conditions of the early universe at the U.S. Department ...
Apr 24, 2011 |
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Chemists cram two million nanorods into single cancer cell
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University chemists have found a way to load more than 2 million tiny gold particles called nanorods into a single cancer cell. The breakthrough could speed development of cancer treatments ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 16, 2011 |
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'Fool's Gold' from the deep is fertilizer for ocean life
Similar to humans, the bacteria and tiny plants living in the ocean need iron for energy and growth. But their situation is quite different from ours--for one, they can't turn to natural iron sources like ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 09, 2011 |
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Plasmonic nanocrosses that heat up when illuminated can be used to kill cancer
Plasmonic nanoparticles are extremely sensitive to light, and even the tiniest amount can cause these particles to heat up. Scientists are now trying to use plasmonic nanoparticles in cancer therapy whereby ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 23, 2011 |
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Dark matter sleuths to design world's largest WIMP catcher
A team of researchers led by a Case Western Reserve University physicist is planning the world's largest, most sensitive experiment to catch the stuff of dark matter, stuff that's proved way beyond invisible.
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Using gold particles to fight cancer
Researchers at the MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, The Netherlands, are developing a method of detecting and treating tumors with the help of gold particles ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 22, 2010 |
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With a simple coating, nanowires show a dramatic increase in efficiency and sensitivity
By applying a coating to individual silicon nanowires, researchers at Harvard and Berkeley have significantly improved the materials' efficiency and sensitivity.
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Opposites Attract and Inspire Electrocatalyst
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny gold particles will surround themselves with even smaller platinum bits, creating a complex structure that could turn a common preservative, formic acid, into electricity in a fuel cell, ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 24, 2010 |
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3-D cell culture: Making cells feel right at home
The film "Avatar" isn't the only 3-D blockbuster making a splash this winter. A team of Houston scientists this week unveiled a new technique for growing 3-D cell cultures, a technological leap from the flat petri dish that ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Self-destructing messages: Light-reactive coatings make metal nanoparticles into inks for self-erasing paper
(PhysOrg.com) -- Those who like to watch spy movies like “Mission Impossible” are familiar with the self-destructing messages that inform the secret agents of the details of their mission and then dissolve in a puff of smoke. ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 26, 2009 |
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A mix of tiny gold and viral particles -- and the DNA ties that bind them
Scientists have created a diamond-like lattice composed of gold nanoparticles and viral particles, woven together and held in place by strands of DNA. The structure – a distinctive mix of hard, metallic ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Gold nanoparticles bring scientists closer to a treatment for cancer
Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed smart nanomaterials, which can disrupt the blood supply to cancerous tumours.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 07, 2011 |
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NMR used to determine whether gold nanoparticles exhibit 'handedness'
Carnegie Mellon University's Roberto R. Gil and Rongchao Jin have successfully used NMR to analyze the structure of infinitesimal gold nanoparticles, which could advance the development and use of the tiny ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Rice-born detector finds heaviest antimatter
Physicists at Rice University and their collaborators have detected the antimatter partner of the helium nucleus, antihelium-4. This newly observed particle is the heaviest antimatter particle ever detected. ...
Apr 25, 2011 |
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Researchers find way to align gold nanorods on a large scale
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a simple, scalable way to align gold nanorods, particles with optical properties that could be used for emerging biomedical imaging technologies.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 17, 2011 |
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