Dose of vitamin C helps gold nanowires grow
A boost of vitamin C helped Rice University scientists turn small gold nanorods into fine gold nanowires.
Nanomaterials
Feb 19, 2019
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News tagged with gold nanorods
Researchers develop process to measure nanorods quickly and accurately
Process engineers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have developed a method to determine the size and shape of nanoparticles in dispersions considerably faster than ever before. Based on gold nanorods, ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 29, 2018
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Optical detection of picomolar concentrations of RNA using switches in plasmonic chirality
Even tiny amounts of viruses can have disastrous consequences. RNA identification can reveal the type of virus present. A fast and sensitive technique based on optical detection has now been outlined in the journal Angewandte ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 19, 2018
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Fast, cheap and colorful 3-D printing
People are exploring the use of 3-D printing for wide-ranging applications, including manufacturing, medical devices, fashion and even food. But one of the most efficient forms of 3-D printing suffers from a major drawback: ...
Nanophysics
Aug 1, 2018
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Remote-control shoots laser at nano-gold to turn on cancer-killing immune cells
A remote command could one day send immune cells on a rampage against a malignant tumor. The ability to mobilize, from outside the body, targeted cancer immunotherapy inside the body has taken a step closer to becoming reality.
Bio & Medicine
Apr 20, 2018
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Using gold particles to make the invisible visible
Gold nanoparticles give us a better understanding of enzymes and other molecules. Biswajit Pradhan, Ph.D. candidate at the Leiden Institute of Physics, uses gold nanorods to study individual molecules that would be challenging ...
Biochemistry
Mar 27, 2018
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Researchers find simpler way to deposit magnetic iron oxide onto gold nanorods
Researchers from North Carolina State University and MIT have found a simpler way to deposit magnetic iron oxide (magnetite) nanoparticles onto silica-coated gold nanorods, creating multifunctional nanoparticles with useful ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 11, 2017
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New method for more effective photothermal tumor therapy with infrared light
Nanorods made of bismuth sulfide kill tumor cells with heat when they are irradiated with near-infrared light (NIR). Chinese scientists are now making these weapons more powerful by remodeling the defect state of the nanorod ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 11, 2017
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A dash of gold improves microlasers
Gold. The word brings to mind wedding rings, buried treasure and California in the 1840's. But when gold is reduced to 1/100,000 the size of a human hair, it takes on an entirely new personality.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 6, 2017
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Solution of DNA and gold nanorods capable of six fundamental logic operations
By adding strands of DNA to a solution containing gold nanorods, A*STAR researchers have created a remarkably simple system that can 'compute' basic logic operations like OR and NOT in response to specific molecular inputs. ...
Nanophysics
Jul 12, 2017
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