A new method uses gold to assemble multi-element nanoparticles under mild conditions, offering improvements in catalytic activity and long-term stability. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The drive to engineer ...

TORONTO - Barrick Gold Corp. announced plans to change its name to Barrick Mining Corp. as it looks to continue to grow its copper business. The new moniker is subject to approval at the company ...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have emerged as promising drug carriers for cancer therapy and targeted drug delivery but tracking them has been challenging. Direct tracking of AuNPs inside the body could ...

Neutron activation of gold nanoparticles enables visualization of drug distribution in mice. (Nanowerk News) Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have unique chemical and biological properties. Due to their ...

Scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDX) analyses were conducted ... darker spherules are gold nanoparticles. This segregation of Fe-B and gold particles ...

A new study shows how organic molecules greatly influence the redox potential of gold nanoparticles, with differences up to 71 mV. Using experiments and computer simulations, the study highlights ...

Additionally, the gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) were victoriously adsorbed on ... (HR-TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and field-emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) measurement were conducted.

Some key applications of gold nanoparticles include photonics, medicine and catalysis. 3 Gold nanoparticles have a high absorption cross-section in the visible and infrared regions, which can be tuned ...

So the team turned to gold nanoparticles, each about 60 billionths of a meter across, or roughly one-thousandth the diameter of a typical human hair. The researchers used transmission electron ...

Vaccines can be made over 25% more effective by adding left-handed chiral gold nanoparticles as adjuvants, according to a study by an international collaboration in which Brazilian researchers ...

Due to COVID-19, Silvero was not able to return to Nova Scotia, but they were still able to make breakthroughs with their technology that uses tiny gold nanoparticles, visible light and medicine ...