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There are many ways to initiate chemical reactions in liquids, but placing free electrons directly into water, ammonia and other liquid solutions is especially attractive for green chemistry becau ...

New Discovery Could Help Fine-Tune Nanoparticle Alloys for Specific Uses Written by AZoNanoApr 23 2021 Theres gold in them thar nanoparticles, and there used to be a lot of silver, too. But much of the silver has leached away, and researchers want to know how. Gold-silver alloys are useful catalysts that degrade environmental pollutants, facilitate the production of plastics and chemicals and kill bacteria on surfaces, among other applications. In nanoparticle form, these alloys could be useful...

Our NanoNews Digest Sponsors Home > Press > Silver ions hurry up, then wait as they disperse: Rice chemists show ions’ staged release from gold-silver nanoparticles could be useful property Chemists at Rice University and the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany quantified the release of silver ions from gold-silver nanoparticle alloys. At top, transmission electron microscope images show the change in color as silver (in blue) leaches out of a nanoparticle over several hours, leaving gold at...

Rice Scientists Make Hybrid Particles by Coupling Gold Nanoparticles with Soft Polymers Written by AZoNanoDec 23 2020 Bigger is not always better, but heres something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger. Just light it up and see. A team led by Rice University chemists Christy Landes and Stephan Link, both associated with the Smalley-Curl Institute, have made hybrid particles that combine the unbeatable light-harvesting properties of plasmonic nanoparticles with the flexibility o...

Rice scientists show how coated nanoantennas retain energy to potentially catalyze chemical reactions Bigger is not always better, but here’s something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger. Just light it up and see. A team led by Rice University chemists Christy Landes and Stephan Link, both associated with the Smalley-Curl Institute, have made hybrid particles that combine the unbeatable light-harvesting properties of plasmonic nanoparticles with the flexibility of catalytic p...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Rice University scientists coupled gold nanoparticles with soft polymers that pull energy from the golds plasmonic response to light. That energy can then be used to potentially catalyze chemical reactions.... view more  Credit: Emily Searles/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 22, 2020) - Bigger is not always better, but heres something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger. Just light it up and see. A team led by Rice University chemists Christy Landes and S...