Gold nanoparticles

Hybrid nanoparticle can attach to microscope tips and light up objects too tiny to see with typical optical beams

A cost effective means for counting white blood cells promises to improve diagnosis in low-resource areas

Researchers realize highly confined transport of light energy over long distances using networks of gold nanoparticles

Confining tiny gold colloids inside nanoscale templates reveals how to design complex structures beyond the capabilities of conventional lithography