Rice University: Gold Buckyballs, Oft-Used Nanoparticle 'Seeds' are One and the Same
August 15, 2023
August 15, 2023
HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 15 (TNSres) -- Rice University issued the following news release:
Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold "seed" particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spherical molecules that are cousins of the carbon buckyballs discovered at Rice in 1985.
Carbon buckyballs are hollow 60-atom molecules that were co-discovered and named by the late Rice c . . .
Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold "seed" particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spherical molecules that are cousins of the carbon buckyballs discovered at Rice in 1985.
Carbon buckyballs are hollow 60-atom molecules that were co-discovered and named by the late Rice c . . .