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foozleman@no.worldnet.att.net wrote:
> 
> Uncle Al wrote:
> 
> > *Tenths* of nanometers?  How big is a gold atom?  There aren't any
> > metal "beads" at that scale.  The best you can do is colloidal
> > nanocrystals whose surfaces are decorated with amine, phosphine, or
> > thiol anti-aggregants.
> >
> > It's in the literature.
> 
> Your comment is of *extreme* interest to me, since I've just discovered
> that a biological hydrogen-bonded complex I've been working with has
> "nanocolloid" properties...and it does tend to aggregate.  Colloid
> chemistry & physics is not my field.  Can you give me a clue as to where
> in the literature I can find out about "amine, phosphine, or thiol
> anti-aggregants"?  I've tried some web searches, to no avail.  Thanks!
> 
> PS  Your web site is a gas!  (Xenon, I think.)

It's all over J. Am. Chem. Soc. and other places.

http://google.com/ "quantum dots" or nanocrystals  Easy.  Trivially
easy.
http://www.mitre.org/research/nanotech/quantum_dot.html
http://www.physics.gatech.edu/research/whetten/  for gold.

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