07/30/2024 By Brooke Coupal. Noble metals, such as gold and platinum, show great potential in renewable energy. Very tiny pieces of noble metals, known as nanoparticles, can increase the rate of a ...

Nanoparticles for energy, explosions Aluminum, the stuff of cans, explodes in its nano form. ... A pinch of it can have as much surface area, chemically speaking, as a basketball.

Energy transmission by gold nanoparticles coupled to DNA structures. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 04 / 210408131420.htm ...

Nanoparticles—the tiniest building blocks of our world—are constantly in motion, bouncing, shifting, and drifting in ...

Using DNA structures as scaffolds, Tim Liedl, a scientist of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, has shown that precisely positioned gold nanoparticles can serve as efficient energy ...

Nanophotonic materials for solar energy harvesting and photothermal conversion are urgently needed to alleviate the global energy crisis. Researchers demonstrated that a broadband absorber made of ...

A new review highlights a powerful, cleaner route to produce ultra-clean, customizable nanoparticles—key building blocks for artificial sensory systems that mimic human perception and power emerging ...

Silver nanoparticles derived from Magnolia alba leaf extract exhibit superior antioxidant properties and effective dye ...

In experiments with human eye fluid samples, researchers have found that gold nanoparticles heated with a low-energy laser can help reduce these problematic clumps (ACS Nano 2019, DOI: 10.1021 ...