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January 28, 2015

Gold is widely applied in different research fields as catalysis, drug carriers, optical & electrical biosensors. Buy why this chemically inert metal can take these role? This video from Nature and Nature collections may give you answers.

Tiny treasure: The future of nano-gold @ Youtube


Below is a collection of Nature articles (seem free to access):
The promoting effect of adsorbed carbon monoxide on the oxidation of alcohols on a gold catalyst
Paramaconi Rodriguez,  Youngkook Kwon &  Marc T. M. Koper
Nature Chemistry 4, 177–182 (11 December 2011)

Nanoparticles that communicate in vivo to amplify tumour targeting
Geoffrey von Maltzahn,  Ji-Ho Park,  Kevin Y. Lin, Neetu Singh,  Christian Schwöppe + et al.
Nature Materials 10, 545–552 (19 June 2011)

Optical detection of single non-absorbing molecules using the surface plasmon resonance of a gold nanorod
Peter Zijlstra,  Pedro M. R. Paulo &  Michel Orrit
Nature Nanotechnology 7, 379–382 (15 April 2012)

A high-throughput drug screen for Entamoeba histolytica identifies a new lead and target
Anjan Debnath,  Derek Parsonage,  Rosa M Andrade, Chen He,  Eduardo R Cobo + et al.
Nature Medicine 18, 956–960 (20 May 2012)

An invisible metal–semiconductor photodetector
Pengyu Fan,  Uday K. Chettiar,  Linyou Cao,  Farzaneh Afshinmanesh,  Nader Engheta + et al. Nature Photonics 6, 380–385 (20 May 2012)




image source: Gold nanoparticles help detect Listeria cheaply

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