When designing a nanoparticle-enabled drug delivery system, many intersecting considerations must be taken into account, such as the target location of the drug payload, the method of delivery, uptake ...

Trace chloride alters gold surface chemistry by forming a short-lived covalent layer of chloride ions on gold atoms. (Nanowerk News) Cambridge researchers have uncovered a hidden layer of chemistry on ...

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 ...

If using the AFM alone, one cannot observe that only one of these surfaces has a successful monolayer. Photo-induced Force ...

Occasionally referred to as ‘colloidal gold,’ gold colloid is a suspension comprising sub-micron gold nanoparticles suspended in a solvent - most commonly water. Gold nanoparticles' distinct ...

Researchers have used machine learning and supercomputer simulations to investigate how tiny gold nanoparticles bind to blood proteins. The studies discovered that favorable nanoparticle-protein ...

The basic working principle of colorimetric sensing is colorimetry, which is a visible change in color that results from a chemical interaction between the sensing/detecting material and the target ...

A team of researchers has developed a novel method to enhance the precision of cancer treatment using gold nanoparticles tagged with DNA barcodes. A team of researchers from the National University of ...