A Swansea University nanomaterials expert has been looking at how small gold particles survive when subjected to very high temperatures.
The research is important to the engineering sector for some potential applications of nanotechnology, for example in catalysis and aerospace, where particles of only nanometre dimensions are subjected to very high temperatures.
The results of the study, which was a 3-way collaboration between Birmingham, Swansea and Genoa University's, was published this week in the journal Nature Communications. The study showed that gold nanoparticles of precisely selected size (561 atoms ±14) are remarkably robust against diffusion and aggregation but their internal atomic arrangements do change.
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