Gold Nanorods: The Diversified Usage In Nanotechnology
Gold Nanorods | Image Resource : cdn.shopify.com Gold nanoparticles are assemblages of 40 to 30 million of gold atoms, typically of size between 1 and 100 nm. For some time, they greatly interested the scientific community because of newly discovered or better understood properties. There have been reviews done on these properties of Au nanorods in the field of catalysis, optics with plasmon resonance, electronics, biology and medicine. Also addressed the main methods of preparing gold nanoparticles and their toxicity. Gold fascinated mankind for millennia. This fascination is not only the result of ancestral customs or social conventions. Scientific knowledge provides an explanation for the attraction elements. Indeed gold is the best known of the metals found in the native state, in the form of chips, for example with silver, copper and platinum. The other metals, in contrast are extracted in their oxidized form and the corresponding reduction requires knowledge of ...