Gold 'Nanostar' (IMAGE)

Kansas State University

Gold 'Nanostar'

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Kansas State University engineers named structures like these snowflake-shaped gold nanostars, or SFGNs. These "snowflakes" are how gold formed on sheets of graphene floating in a solution.

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Kansas State University department of chemical engineering

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