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Unusual chiral interplay between nanorods and proteins
Postdoctoral fellow Qingfeng Zhang works in the laser lab at Rice University, where he and colleagues discovered an unusual chiral interplay between gold nanorods and bovine serum albumin proteins.
[Research supported by National Science Foundation grants CHE 1507745, CHE 1903980 and DGE 1842494.]
Read more in the Rice University news story Chemists clarify a chiral conundrum. (Date image taken: Sept. 11, 2019; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Dec. 16, 2019)
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University
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