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Adjusting a microscope to focus on gold nanorods
Rice University graduate student Yi-Yu Cai adjusts a microscope to focus on gold nanorods, the target of new research into the source of useful light emissions from metal nanoparticles.
Learn more about this research, supported in part by the National Science Foundation (grant ECCS 1608917), in the Rice University news story Plasmonic pioneers fire away in fight over light. (Date image taken:2018 ; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: May 22, 2019)
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University
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