Engineers have developed a method which allows the size and shape of nanoparticles in dispersions to be determined considerably quicker than ever before. Based on gold nanorods, they demonstrated how ...

Health care professionals use tiny particles of gold (nanoparticles) for a variety of medical applications—from diagnostic imaging to cancer treatment. Gold works well for these applications because ...

Physicists at CERN have achieved the ancient dream of turning other metals into gold, and they did it with physics, not magic, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi as he explores why this matters far more than ...