How to Make a Nanocage (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

How to Make a Nanocage

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Gold nanocages (right) are hollow boxes made by precipitating gold on silver nanocubes (left). The silver simultaneously erodes from within the cube, entering solution through pores that open in the clipped corners of the cube.

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