Bio-Inspired Method for Creating Nanoscale Gold Stars : vima

Scientists from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the University of Washington (UW) have been successful in engineering a nature-inspired molecule that can guide gold atoms to form faultless nanoscale stars.

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