{"id":140967,"date":"2022-06-22T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T02:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/technique-allows-researchers-to-align-gold-nanorods-using-magnetic-fields"},"modified":"2022-06-22T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T02:03:13","slug":"technique-allows-researchers-to-align-gold-nanorods-using-magnetic-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/technique-allows-researchers-to-align-gold-nanorods-using-magnetic-fields","title":{"rendered":"Technique allows researchers to align gold nanorods using magnetic fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/technique-allows-researchers-to-align-gold-nanorods-using-magnetic-fields2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers has demonstrated a technique that allows them to align gold nanorods using magnetic fields, while preserving the underlying optical properties of the gold nanorods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGold nanorods are of interest because they can absorb and scatter specific <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wavelengths+of+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wavelengths of light<\/a>, making them attractive for use in applications such as biomedical imaging, sensors, and other technologies,\u201d says Joe Tracy, corresponding author of a paper on the work and a professor of materials science and engineering at North Carolina State University.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible to tune the wavelengths of light absorbed and scattered by engineering the dimensions of the gold nanorods. Magnetically controlling their orientation makes it possible to further control and modulate which wavelengths the nanorods respond to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has demonstrated a technique that allows them to align gold nanorods using magnetic fields, while preserving the underlying optical properties of the gold nanorods. \u201cGold nanorods are of interest because they can absorb and scatter specific wavelengths of light, making them attractive for use in applications such as biomedical imaging, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}