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Individual nanoparticles in action

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A catalytic reaction occurring on a single gold nanoparticle can be monitored directly with surface plasmon spectroscopy.

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Figure 1: Schematic representation of the oxidation of ascorbic acid carried out on a gold nanoparticle catalyst.

BRUCE C. GATES & ALPER UZUN

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  1. Bruce C. Gates is at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA. bcgates@ucdavis.edu,

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Gates, B. Individual nanoparticles in action. Nature Nanotech 3, 583–584 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2008.295

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