Scientists in the US have described a new way of preparing gold nanoparticle superstructures with tailorable thicknesses, formed using a self-assembled gold-binding peptide conjugate template. Nathaniel Rosi and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, examined how the synthesis and assembly mechanism impacts the organization of the superstructures.
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