Science news articles about 'gold atoms'

  • Golden nanocrown

    ... . Small rings made of positively charged gold atoms have been know for some time, but only recently could the Chinese ... -assembly process. Within this ring system, the gold atoms are arranged into a shape that resembles a crown ...
  • Perfect, Tiny Golden Nano-crown Made

    Researchers in China have recently made a "golden crown" with a diameter of only a few nanometers, a large ring-shaped molecule containing 36 gold atoms.
  • UCR chemists use 'green chemistry' to produce amines, chemical compounds used widely in industry

    ... soon in the journal as well. The catalyst in question – a gold atom linked to a cyclic alkyl amino ... in this reaction. "One of the greatest challenges in chemistry is to develop atom-efficient processes for the combination of ammonia with single ...
  • Study reveals principles behind stability and electronic properties of gold nanoclusters

    ... , the researchers found that the clusters were stable because the surface gold atoms in the core each had at least one surface ... predicted the structure for a cluster containing 25 gold atoms. They determined that the structure was comprised of an icosahedron ...
  • Golden scales

    ... temperature and in just a little more than one second of time. A gold atom has a mass of 3.25 x ... that there are about 3 million million million million gold atoms in a single kilogram. While there have been other NEMS ...
  • Nano sculptures in gold

    ... structures that are familiar from their negative counterparts: 20 gold atoms stacked into a tetrahedron, a pyramid with a triangular ... in its centre. In uncharged form, there are three gold atoms positioned on each edge of the triangle. On one edge ...
  • NIST and partners identify tiny gold clusters as top-notch catalysts

    ... that protect miners and firefighters. For this purpose, nanoclusters—gold atoms bound together in crystals smaller ... than the common cold virus) and containing about 10 gold atoms. This finding is consistent with the previous surface ...
  • Purifying nanorods: Big success with tiny cleanup

    ... and about 250 nanometers long. In comparison, a single gold atom is only about one third of a nanometer in diameter. Thus ... nanorod is made of just a few thousand gold atoms. Because of their long, narrow shape ...
  • Smallest Possible Switch: Single Gold Atom Forms The Contact

    ... PhD research on electric current through atoms and molecules. "The ultimate aim of nanotechnology is to use molecules ...
  • Ultracold gas mimics ultrahot plasma

    ... more of a distance from each other than their chummier counterpart class of atoms -- the bosons. But under the extreme conditions of his ... ," he said. Brookhaven's RHIC is designed to smash gold atoms together near the speed of light ...
  • Researchers discover a potential on-off switch for nanoelectronics

    ... —a nanometer scale circuit element that contacts gold atoms with a single molecule. Their findings reveal ... , as you pull, just after the final strand of gold atoms breaks and snaps back, the vertical ...
  • Research team co-led by UC Riverside physicist observes production of single-top-quarks

    ... is nearly 200 times heavier than a proton in an atom's nucleus. Point-like, it has no size. It has the same mass as a gold atom and is one of the fundamental building blocks of nature ...
  • New rotors could help develop nanoscale generators

    ... array. The anchor point, a single gold atom on top of the gold surface attached to a nitrogen ... , which are metallic, spin around the gold atoms creating an off-axis rotation. The beauty of phtalocyanines ...
  • All-in-1 nanoparticle: A Swiss Army knife for nanomedicine

    ... and for a type of medical imaging that uses infrared light. Gold also reradiates infrared heat and so could be used in medical ... acids called polyhistidines, which bind to charged gold atoms. Gao compares the completed structure ...
  • Exposing nano-objects’ molecular make up

    Bombarding with single clusters of gold atoms helps identify nano-objects through molecular structure

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