{"id":223485,"date":"2025-10-16T03:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/atom-scale-stencil-patterns-help-nanoparticles-take-new-shapes-and-learn-new-tricks"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:31:10","slug":"atom-scale-stencil-patterns-help-nanoparticles-take-new-shapes-and-learn-new-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/atom-scale-stencil-patterns-help-nanoparticles-take-new-shapes-and-learn-new-tricks","title":{"rendered":"Atom-scale stencil patterns help nanoparticles take new shapes and learn new tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/82M2sMzv52A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by an artist\u2019s stencils, researchers have developed atomic-level precision patterning on nanoparticle surfaces, allowing them to \u201cpaint\u201d gold nanoparticles with polymers to give them an array of new shapes and functions.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpatchy nanoparticles\u201d developed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers and collaborators at the University of Michigan and Penn State University can be made in large batches, used for a variety of electronic, optical or biomedical applications, or used as building blocks for new complex materials and metamaterials.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Qian Chen, an Illinois professor of materials science and engineering, the researchers report their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09605-8\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a> in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by an artist\u2019s stencils, researchers have developed atomic-level precision patterning on nanoparticle surfaces, allowing them to \u201cpaint\u201d gold nanoparticles with polymers to give them an array of new shapes and functions. The \u201cpatchy nanoparticles\u201d developed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers and collaborators at the University of Michigan and Penn State University can be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223485","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\/223485","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=223485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}