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Caption: Partial view of a gold nanosphere (shown), magnified by a factor of one billion, as seen through an electron microscope. The darker ring shows the "wall" of the nanosphere, while the lighter area to the right of the ring shows the interior region of the shell.
Credit: Adam Schwartzberg, Ph.D.; Jin Zhang, Ph.D.
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