{"id":31564,"date":"2016-10-31T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/new-technique-reveals-powerful-patchy-approach-to-nanoparticle-synthesis"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:25:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:25:22","slug":"new-technique-reveals-powerful-patchy-approach-to-nanoparticle-synthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/new-technique-reveals-powerful-patchy-approach-to-nanoparticle-synthesis","title":{"rendered":"New Technique Reveals Powerful, \u201cPatchy\u201d Approach to Nanoparticle Synthesis"},"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\/LLdL8ndtElM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Patches of chain-like <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about molecules here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/molecules\/\">molecules<\/a> placed across <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about nanoscale here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/nanoscale\/\">nanoscale<\/a> particles can radically transform the optical, electronic, and <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about magnetic here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/magnetic\/\">magnetic<\/a> properties of particle-based <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about materials here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/materials\/\">materials<\/a>. Understanding why depends critically on the three-dimensional features of these \u201cpolymer nano-patches\u201d\u2014which are tantalizingly difficult to reveal at a scale spanning just billionths of a meter.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about scientists here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/scientists\/\">scientists<\/a> have used cutting-edge electron <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about tomography here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/tomography\/\">tomography<\/a> techniques\u2014a process of 3D reconstructive <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about imaging here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/imaging\/\">imaging <\/a>\u2014to pinpoint the structure and composition of the polymer nano-patches. The results, published earlier this month in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>, \u201clay the foundation for new <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about nanoscale here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/nanoscale\/\">nanoscale<\/a> architectures that could potentially enhance technologies such as self-assembled <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about solar here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/solar\/\">solar<\/a> <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about cells here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/cells\/\">cells<\/a> and catalysts,\u201d said lead author Eugenia Kumacheva of the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about scientists here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/scientists\/\">scientists<\/a> tracked the patches formed by different synthetic polymers\u2014versatile and common compounds used in everything from plastics to <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about electronics here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/electronics-2\/\">electronics <\/a>\u2014on the surface of gold nanospheres thousands of times smaller than the width of a single human hair. To visualize the elusive surface <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about structures here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/structures\/\">structures<\/a>, Kumacheva and her team turned to cutting-edge facilities at the Center for Functional <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about Nanomaterials here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/nanomaterials\/\">Nanomaterials<\/a> (<a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about CFN here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/cfn\/\">CFN<\/a>), a U.S. Department of <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about Energy here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/energy\/\">Energy<\/a> (<a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about DOE here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/doe\/\">DOE<\/a>) Office of <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about Science here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/science\/\">Science<\/a> <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about User Facility here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/user-facility\/\">User Facility<\/a> at <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about DOE here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/doe\/\">DOE<\/a>\u2019s <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about Brookhaven National Laboratory here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/brookhaven-national-laboratory\/\">Brookhaven National Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/new-technique-reveals-powerful-patchy-approach-nanoparticle-synthesis\/\">http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/new-techniqu...synthesis\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patches of chain-like molecules placed across nanoscale particles can radically transform the optical, electronic, and magnetic properties of particle-based materials. Understanding why depends critically on the three-dimensional features of these \u201cpolymer nano-patches\u201d\u2014which are tantalizingly difficult to reveal at a scale spanning just billionths of a meter. Now, scientists have used cutting-edge electron tomography techniques\u2014a process [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31564","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38697,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31564\/revisions\/38697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}