An international team of researchers has discovered a way to improve the durability of gold catalysts by creating a protective layer of metal oxide clusters. In a paper published in the journal Nature ...

Gold nanoparticles have already shown promise in precisely highlighting brain tumors, “blowing up” individual diseased cells, and developing a lung cancer breath test. Now researchers have created ...

(Nanowerk News) Nanoscale gold particles are currently intensively investigated for possible applications in catalysis, sensing, photonics, biolabelling, drug carriers and molecular electronics. The ...

This is an atomistic model of the Au102(p-MBA)44 particle. Gold: yellow, sulfur: orange, carbon: green, oxygen:r ed, hydrogen: white. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...