With a new nanoparticle that converts light to heat, a team of researchers has found a promising technology for clearing water of pollutants.
Bio & Medicine
Jun 23, 2020
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Nanoparticle superlattice films that form at the solid-liquid interface are important for mesoscale materials but are challenging to analyze on the onset of formation at a solid-liquid interface. In a new report on Science ...
It's always good when your intuition turns out to be right, but scientists at Rice University studying proteins and particles were more "right" than they expected.
Materials Science
Sep 26, 2019
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Gold is an extremely important material for high-pressure experiments and is considered the "gold standard" for calculating pressure in static diamond anvil cell experiments. When compressed slowly at room temperature (on ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 31, 2019
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Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center took a step toward making gene therapy more practical by simplifying the way gene-editing instructions are delivered to cells. Using a gold nanoparticle instead of an inactivated ...
Materials Science
May 27, 2019
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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Chemistry have found a way to control the lifetime of the quantum states of gold nanoclusters by three orders of magnitude, which could lead to improvements in solar ...
Nanophysics
Apr 26, 2019
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Even the smallest mechanical pumps have limitations, from the complex microfabrication techniques required to make them to the fact that there are limits on how small they can be. Researchers have announced a potential solution—a ...
General Physics
Mar 11, 2019
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Nuclear physicists analyzing data from the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at Brookhaven National ...
General Physics
Dec 10, 2018
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Rice University researchers have discovered a fundamentally different form of light-matter interaction in their experiments with gold nanoparticles.
Nanophysics
Nov 30, 2018
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An experiment that, by design, was not supposed to turn up anything of note instead produced a "bewildering" surprise, according to the Stanford scientists who made the discovery: a new way of creating gold nanoparticles ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 19, 2018
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