Colloidal gold is a suspension (or colloid) of sub-micrometre-sized particles of gold in a fluid — usually water. The liquid is usually either an intense red colour (for particles less than 100 nm), or a dirty yellowish colour (for larger…
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Gold nanoparticles
Tagged with: Brust method, Colloidal gold, discovery, Drug carrier, gold nanoparticles, history, history of nanotechnology, nano, nanomaterials, nanoparticles, nanoscience, nanotech, nanotechnology, Perrault Method, Sonolysis method, synthesis, synthesis of nanoparticles, Tumor detection, Turkevich method
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Fullerenes
A fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid or tube. Spherical fullerenes are also called buckyballs, and they resemble the balls used in association football. Cylindrical ones are called carbon nanotubes…
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Richard Feynman’s speech
There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom is the title of a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959. Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of individual atoms…
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