{"id":169728,"date":"2023-08-15T03:31:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T08:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/gold-buckyballs-oft-used-nanoparticle-seeds-are-one-and-the-same"},"modified":"2023-08-15T03:31:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T08:31:47","slug":"gold-buckyballs-oft-used-nanoparticle-seeds-are-one-and-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/gold-buckyballs-oft-used-nanoparticle-seeds-are-one-and-the-same","title":{"rendered":"Gold buckyballs, oft-used nanoparticle \u2018seeds\u2019 are one and the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gold-buckyballs-oft-used-nanoparticle-seeds-are-one-and-the-same2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold \u201cseed\u201d particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spherical molecules that are cousins of the carbon buckyballs discovered at Rice in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon buckyballs are hollow 60-atom molecules that were co-discovered and named by the late Rice chemist Richard Smalley. He dubbed them \u201cbuckminsterfullerenes\u201d because their atomic structure reminded him of architect Buckminster Fuller\u2019s geodesic domes, and the \u201cfullerene\u201d family has grown to include dozens of hollow molecules.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Rice chemists Matthew Jones and Liang Qiao discovered that golden fullerenes are the gold \u201cseed\u201d particles chemists have long used to make gold nanoparticles. The find came just a few months after the first reported synthesis of gold buckyballs, and it revealed chemists had unknowingly been using the golden molecules for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold \u201cseed\u201d particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spherical molecules that are cousins of the carbon buckyballs discovered at Rice in 1985. Carbon buckyballs are hollow 60-atom molecules that were co-discovered and named [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169728","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=169728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}