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 ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Plasmonic nanoparticles prepared by colloidal chemistry have advantageous electronic, optical and magnetic properties, but their implementation into functional devices remains limited ...

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