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Vibrating nanoparticles interact
Like a tuning fork struck with a mallet, tiny gold nanodisks can be made to vibrate at resonant frequencies when struck by light. In new...
Oct 16, 20173 min read


A dash of gold improves microlasers
Gold. The word brings to mind wedding rings, buried treasure and California in the 1840's. But when gold is reduced to 1/100,000 the size...
Oct 6, 20173 min read


New nanomaterial can extract hydrogen fuel from seawater
It's possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes...
Oct 6, 20172 min read


Nanoscale islands dot light-driven catalyst
Individual nanoscale nuggets of gold, copper, aluminum, silver and other metals that capture light's energy and put it to work are being...
Oct 5, 20173 min read


Nano chip system measures light from single bacterial cell to enable chemical detection
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created a nanophotonic chip system using lasers and bacteria to observe...
Sep 1, 20173 min read


A low-cost method for solar-thermal conversion that's simpler and greener
Researchers led by Yuan Yang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Columbia Engineering, along with colleagues at...
Aug 29, 20174 min read
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