nanoparticles

How nanoparticles melt has been a mystery since the study of the extremely small began. While initial theoretical models describing melting have been around for a century, with more relevant models being about 50 years old, the way melting…

Silver nanoparticles make a glue-free deformable mirror possible

Levitation may sound like the stuff of magic shows or New Age gurus, but California Institute of Technology researchers have designed a way to levitate and propel objects using only light, by creating specific nanoscale patterning on the…

A durable transparent surface coated with gold nanoparticles embedded in titanium oxide can clear fogged surfaces four times faster than surfaces treated with other anti-fog agents, says the lead author of a recent ETH study. The coating…