{"id":211009,"date":"2025-04-09T21:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T02:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/gold-nanoclusters-reveal-magnetic-spins-potential-role-in-catalytic-efficiency"},"modified":"2025-04-09T21:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T02:10:24","slug":"gold-nanoclusters-reveal-magnetic-spins-potential-role-in-catalytic-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/gold-nanoclusters-reveal-magnetic-spins-potential-role-in-catalytic-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Gold nanoclusters reveal magnetic spin\u2019s potential role in catalytic efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gold-nanoclusters-reveal-magnetic-spins-potential-role-in-catalytic-efficiency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, a team of researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) consecutively removed the innermost atom and the outermost electron of a gold nanoparticle\u2014without disturbing its overall structure. This precise manipulation allowed them to probe how the magnetic spin of the material influences its catalytic activity.<\/p>\n<p>The work, led by Prof. Wu Zhikun in collaboration with Prof. Yang from the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS and Prof. Tang from Chongqing University, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adu1996\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>Gold nanoclusters\u2014tiny particles composed of from a few to hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gold+atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gold atoms <\/a>\u2014are ideal models for studying how atomic structure affects <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/material+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">material properties<\/a>. But tuning the structure of such clusters atom by atom, especially when they\u2019re relatively large and complex, has long been a major challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a team of researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) consecutively removed the innermost atom and the outermost electron of a gold nanoparticle\u2014without disturbing its overall structure. This precise manipulation allowed them to probe how the magnetic spin of the material influences its catalytic activity. 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":[38,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211009","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=211009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}