Self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into small clusters
Monday, August 4, 2014 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers at HZB in cooperation with Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin have made an astonishing observation: they were investigating the formation of gold nanoparticles in a solvent and observed that the nanoparticles had not distributed themselves uniformly, but instead were self-assembled into small clusters.