Gold nanoparticles, which are about one-thousandth the width of a human hair, can convert light they receive from a laser ...

A new study by Brown University researchers suggests that gold nanoparticles - microscopic bits of gold thousands of times thinner than a human hair - might one day be used to help restore vision in ...

When inorganic nanoparticles come together, their optical, electronic, and magnetic properties depend strongly on how they ...

Japanese scientists have found gold nanoparticles that act like liquid and change structure with temperature and pressure at ...

By tagging nanoparticles with unique DNA "barcodes", the team was able to track and compare dozens of designs simultaneously ...

Gold nanoparticles have evolved from a specialized laboratory material into a scalable, widely applied input across life ...

Mesmerizing videos offer a new look at the ways crystals form. The real-time clips, described March 30 in Nature Nanotechnology, show closeup views of microscopic gold particles tumbling, sliding and ...

Graph theory allows researchers to quantify complexity, defined as a mix of order and disorder. Structures with the optimal ...

Researchers in Japan have found that gold nanoparticles at the air/water interface can dynamically ...