{"id":172437,"date":"2023-09-20T13:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/precisely-arranging-nanoparticles-to-develop-plasmonic-molecules"},"modified":"2023-09-20T13:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T18:22:25","slug":"precisely-arranging-nanoparticles-to-develop-plasmonic-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/precisely-arranging-nanoparticles-to-develop-plasmonic-molecules","title":{"rendered":"Precisely arranging nanoparticles to develop plasmonic molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/precisely-arranging-nanoparticles-to-develop-plasmonic-molecules3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the incredibly small world of molecules, the elementary building blocks\u2014the atoms\u2014join together in a very regular pattern. In contrast, in the macroscopic world with its larger particles, there is much greater disorder when particles connect.<\/p>\n<p>A research team at the University of G\u00f6ttingen has now succeeded in achieving the same precise arrangement of atoms shown in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecules<\/a>, but using nanometer-sized particles, known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plasmonic\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plasmonic<\/a> molecules\u201d\u2014combinations of nanoscale metallic structures that have unique properties. The results were published in <i>Angewandte Chemie International Edition<\/i>, which has classified the article as a \u201cvery important paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is a transition area between molecular and macroscopic levels, an in-between zone called the nanometer range, where there is often a disordered aggregation of particles. Precise arrangement of nanometer-sized structures is one of the major challenges in the ongoing miniaturization in electronics, optics and medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the incredibly small world of molecules, the elementary building blocks\u2014the atoms\u2014join together in a very regular pattern. In contrast, in the macroscopic world with its larger particles, there is much greater disorder when particles connect. A research team at the University of G\u00f6ttingen has now succeeded in achieving the same precise arrangement of atoms [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172437","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}