Weiss -- Nanoparticle Catalyst, Original (IMAGE)

Northwestern University

Weiss -- Nanoparticle Catalyst, Original

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Molecules adsorb on the surface of semiconductor nanoparticles in very specific geometries. The nanoparticles use energy from incident light to activate the molecules and fuse them together to form larger molecules in configurations useful for biological applications.

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Credit: Yishu Jiang, Northwestern University

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