Science news articles about 'tiny gold'

  • MIT: Targeting tumors using tiny gold particles

    ... nearby tissues. Now, MIT researchers have developed tiny gold particles that can home in on tumors, and then, ... that blood vessels located near tumors have tiny pores just large enough for the nanorods ...
  • Experts find combined gold toothpick, earwax spoon

    KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- Experts found a tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish ...
  • Nano sculptures in gold

    ... é Fielicke, who headed up the work carried out by the Berlin-based researchers. This is because these tiny gold particles are very selective about which reactions they assist in. Whether the gold ...
  • Beyond jewelry: Engineering new uses for gold

    ... , or so says a team of MIT researchers that is working on ways to use tiny gold rods to fight cancer, deliver drugs and more. But first they must overcome one major difficulty: the rods' ...
  • NIST and partners identify tiny gold clusters as top-notch catalysts

    ... CO conversion) to others with nearly 100 percent efficiency. Their results revealed that the most active gold nanoclusters for CO conversion are bilayers approximately 0.5-0.8 nanometer in diameter ( ...
  • Gold nanostar shape of the future

    ... cones, cubes and spheres – move aside. Tiny gold stars, smaller than a billionth of a meter ... nanostars in a controlled fashion by adjusting the volume of gold seeds added to the growth solution," Khoury ...
  • Gold nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery

    Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs to be released in a controlled fashion. Such a system could ...
  • Gold Nanoparticles For Controlled Drug Delivery

    Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs to be released in a controlled fashion.
  • EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Blackbeard Pirate Relics, Gold Found

    A sword guard, tiny gold pieces, and a coin are among newfound artifacts from a shipwreck off North Carolina. The discoveries add to evidence that the ship belonged to the pirate Blackbeard.
  • Princeton scientists spy an electron dance

    ... . To obtain the results, the scientists balanced a crystal of high-purity bismuth at the tip of a tiny gold cantilever and measured the minute flexing of the cantilever as the magnetic field changed. ...
  • Flexible nanoantenna arrays capture abundant solar energy

    ... , Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Patrick Pinhero, now at the University of Missouri. The nanoantennas are tiny gold squares or spirals set in a specially treated form of polyethylene, a material used in ...
  • Golden rods

    ... energy causes the gold particles to vibrate and is dissipated into the surrounding area as heat. The tiny gold particles can be functionalized so that the specifically bind to tumor cells. Thus, only ...
  • Ancient jewels found in uni desk

    Tiny gold studs unearthed near Stonehenge are found in a desk at a university after 30 years.
  • Findings suggest nanowires ideal for electronics manufacturing

    ... Center. The silicon nanowires begin forming from tiny gold nanoparticles ranging in size from 10 ... metals like copper, nickel or aluminum." The gold particles are created inside the microscope chamber ...
  • 1 nano-step closer to weighing a single atom

    ... Melbourne, Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials in Illinois and the University of Chicago synthesized and studied tiny gold rods with a width 5000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair. ...

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