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December 1st, 2009
Introduction
Hello ‘gold-minded blog readers’,
This being my first post I would like to introduce myself and my interests with respect to gold.
My name is Jonathan Edgar. I am a PhD student at the University of Technology, Sydney.
My work revolves around the synthesis and characterisation of gold nanoparticles with different geometries (e.g. nanorods, nanoshells, stars etc)
If you are interested or want to investigate other research being undertaken within our institute, check out http://www.nano.uts.edu.au/
Shameless self-promotion aside, I did stumble across a way for gold researchers to capitalise on the potential explosion of uses for graphene (oxides etc);
Jasuja, K.; Berry, V. ACS Nano 2009, 3, 2358-2366.
The paper above details the tailoring of the electrical properties of sheets of graphene oxide by seeding the growth of gold “nanosnowflakes” upon functional groups (COOH and OH) on the sheets.
Jonathan Edgar
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