Recently, a team of researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) ...

Gold has a unique electronic structure giving it exceptional chemical traits that ... Au(P^P)] + cations) is a gold atom bonded to two carbon atoms of the first ligand and two phosphorus atoms of the ...

In a breakthrough that brings nanoscience one step closer to precise control of chemical reactions, a team of researchers ...

Although it has been possible to make hollow 32-atom gold nanospheres ... better understand the geometrical structure and electronic properties of large pure gold clusters 10.

Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding ... emitted by the radioactive element radium) at a sheet of gold foil only 1/3000 of an inch thick, and tracing the particles' paths.

Scientists precisely removed a gold nanocluster's core atom and outer electron, revealing how spin state affects catalytic activity without structural loss. (Nanowerk News) In a breakthrough that ...

Researchers precisely removed a gold nanoparticle's core atom and outermost electron to study how magnetic spin affects its catalytic activity. (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from the Hefei ...