Rice lab discovers commonly used nanoparticles are cousins of original buckyballs Gold Nanoparticles Grow from Buckyball Seeds: Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold “seed” particles, a key ingredient in one of the most common nanoparticle recipes, are one and the same as gold buckyballs, 32-atom spherical molecules that are cousins of the carbon … Continue reading Gold Nanoparticles Grow from Buckyball Seeds