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Monday, 29th December 2008 (1590 views)

A researcher who helped to make an important breakthrough in the field of gold nanotechnology has been given a prestigious award.

Uzi Landman, a professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named as the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientists.

He will be presented with the honour at the annual meeting of the awards' organisers in Berlin in June.

Professor Landman and his colleagues discovered that gold is an effective catalyst when it is arranged into clusters of eight to 24 atoms during a study in 1999.

The team also found that the electrical charging of gold is key to its catalytic properties.

Commenting on the award, Professor Landman said: "It is a happy moment when one's work is acknowledged and recognised by his peers and I trust that this will encourage us to continue our joint endeavours of research and discovery."

Meanwhile, researchers from Stanford University have become the first in the world to demonstrate how a nano-patterned gold film can be used to focus light.

 

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