{"id":150040,"date":"2022-11-13T11:23:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-learn-to-engineer-growth-of-crystalline-materials-consisting-of-nanometer-size-gold-clusters"},"modified":"2022-11-13T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T17:23:31","slug":"researchers-learn-to-engineer-growth-of-crystalline-materials-consisting-of-nanometer-size-gold-clusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-learn-to-engineer-growth-of-crystalline-materials-consisting-of-nanometer-size-gold-clusters","title":{"rendered":"Researchers learn to engineer growth of crystalline materials consisting of nanometer-size gold clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First insights into engineering crystal growth by atomically precise metal nanoclusters have been achieved in a study performed by researchers in Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Finland. The work was published in Nature Chemistry.<\/p>\n

Ordinary solid matter consists of atoms organized in a crystal lattice. The chemical character of the atoms and lattice symmetry define the properties of the matter, for instance, whether it is a metal, a semiconductor or and electric insulator. The lattice symmetry may be changed by ambient conditions<\/a> such as temperature or high pressure<\/a>, which can induce structural transitions and transform even an electric insulator to an electric conductor, that is, a metal.<\/p>\n

Larger identical entities such as nanoparticles or atomically precise metal nanoclusters can also organize into a crystal lattice<\/a>, to form so called meta-materials. However, information on how to engineer the growth of such materials from their building blocks<\/a> has been scarce since the crystal growth<\/a> is a typical self-assembling process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First insights into engineering crystal growth by atomically precise metal nanoclusters have been achieved in a study performed by researchers in Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Finland. The work was published in Nature Chemistry. Ordinary solid matter consists of atoms organized in a crystal lattice. The chemical character of the atoms and lattice symmetry define the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150040","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}