(Nanowerk News) A binary nanoparticle array refers to a periodic structure comprising at least two types of building nanoparticles with component or morphological dissimilarities. Synthetic binary ...

Researchers have developed a new technique combining vertical small-angle X-ray scattering and optical microscopy to observe the real-time self-assembly of nanoparticles at liquid interfaces, offering ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Nanotechnology – the manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular scale – has opened up astonishing possibilities across scientific disciplines. In particular, the bottom-up ...

Nanoparticles can be viewed as a new type of "atom" with size dependent physical, optical and electronic properties that make them suitable for a wide variety of applications. There are many open ...

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 ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Seeing is believing when it comes to nanoparticle self-assembly. A team of University of Illinois engineers is observing the interactions of colloidal gold nanoparticles inside tiny ...

With their tunable properties, nanoparticles can form extremely complicated structures like superlattices and supercrystals when organized precisely. These assembled structures often display unique ...