Energy Scientists Unravel the Mystery of Gold’s Glowby Ecole Polytechnique Federale de LausanneDiscovery of effects behind photoluminescence in thin gold films could drive development of solar fuels and batteries
NewsPowerful Bragg Reflector with Ultrahigh Refractive Index Metamaterialby Pohang University of Science & TechnologyTeam develops a metamaterial that maximizes light-matter interaction
NewsDifferentiate Right- and Left-Handed Particles by the Force Exerted by Lightby National Institutes of Natural SciencesClarifying the characteristics of optical gradient force on the mechanics of chiral gold nanoparticles
NewsRecycling More Precious Metals from Nuclear and Electronic Wasteby Nagoya UniversityA solution to extracting metals from waste could lie in the pigment Prussian blue
NewsNew Toolkit Aids Discovery of Mineral Deposits Crucial to ‘Green Economy’by University of ExeterCertain textures preserved in rock may be indicative of the types of physical processes that form these deposits
NewsMore Targeted, Less Toxic: The Golden Future of Cancer Treatmentby RMIT UniversityGold-based molecules that target cancer cells and leave healthy cells unharmed—a step towards precision cancer drugs with fewer toxic side effects
NewsGold for Iron Nanocubesby University of HelsinkiRecent study shows that hybrid Au/Fe nanoparticles can grow in an unprecedentedly complex structure with a single-step fabrication method
NewsUsing Light and Gold Nanoparticles for Targeted, Non-Invasive Drug Deliveryby American Technion SocietyTechnion researchers have developed a technology that enables drugs to be delivered and released only to the diseased tissue which the drug is targeting
NewsThese Bacteria Produce Gold by Digesting Toxic Metalsby Martin-Luther University Halle-WittenbergBacterium C. metallidurans has found a way to extract valuable trace elements from a compound of heavy metals without poisoning itself