CHAMPAIGN, Ill., March 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have developed a technique that can characterize the atomic structure of gold and other nanocrystalline materials. "Without the necessary ...

Now, researchers have demonstrated a sensitive probe that can identify and characterize the atomic structure of gold and other nanocrystalline materials. In the hands of jewelers, gold can be ...

Arranging gold, atomic staples and electron volts, chemists have drafted new nanoscale blueprints for low-energy structure capable of housing pharmaceuticals and oxygen atoms. Led by University of ...

Rutherford's Nobel-winning discovery of α particles formed the basis of the gold foil experiment, which cast doubt on the plum pudding model. His experiment would probe atomic structure with high ...

(1) Nanometre-scale gold particles are intensively investigated ... The molecular formulas and solid-state atomic structure of many of these compounds, called "clusters", have been resolved ...

A thorough understanding of the atomic structure of free-standing nanocrystals ... Redshift of surface plasmon modes of small gold rods due to their atomic roughness and end-cap geometry.

"My personal dream came true late last year when a group led by Roger Kornberg at Stanford University made a breakthrough experiment determining the atomic structure of gold nanoparticles of a certain ...