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What gives gold nanoparticles their color?

Posted on November 12, 2019

by Meng Wu edited by Natalie Hudson-Smith In a previous post, Can gold melt at room temperature? Melting temperature depression!, we talked about how the color of gold changes from shiny yellow to dark red …

Posted in Sustainable NanoTagged color, gold, light, Meng Wu, nanoparticles, Natalie Hudson-Smith, photons, resonance, wave-particle duality, wavelength

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