Beyond jewelry: Engineering new uses for gold

Friday, August 22, 2008 - 12:42 in Physics & Chemistry

The glitter of gold may hold more than just beauty, 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' surface.

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