Researchers may have opened the door to a simpler approach for the fabrication of plasmonic materials -- one of the hottest new fields in high tech -- by inducing polyhedral-shaped silver nanocrystals ...

(Nanowerk News) The question of how many polyhedral nanocrystals of silver can be packed into millimeter-sized supercrystals may not be burning on many lips but the answer holds importance for one of ...

Nanomedicine. 2014;9(1):121-134. Table 1. Nonspherical nanoparticles of various shapes fabricated in recent years. Shape Types Materials Methods Ref. 2D polygonal ...

(Nanowerk News) The 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage presented a vision of the future that includes tiny machines gliding through the body and repairing injuries. Almost 50 years later, scientists are ...

Like cheerleaders forming a human pyramid, many particles might be able to assemble themselves into organized superstructures, a new study has found. Rather than actually manufacturing countless tiny ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University researchers have developed an algorithm that quantifies and analyzes shape changes in puzzle piece-shaped plant cells, providing insights into the small-scale ...

Technically, the shape is a rhombic dodecahedron with a hexagon for a base; the geometry was specially designed by Orgusaar to create a space that was easily assembled out of identical elements. The ...