{"id":470291,"date":"2018-05-03T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ab579bd48cd7f79390c8c789d73df0fd"},"modified":"2018-05-03T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T18:00:01","slug":"a-designers-toolkit-for-constructing-complex-nanoparticles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=470291","title":{"rendered":"A designer&#8217;s toolkit for constructing complex nanoparticles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of chemists at Penn State has developed a designer&#8217;s toolkit that lets them build various levels of complexity into nanoparticles using a simple, mix-and-match process. &#8220;Researchers in areas as diverse as medicine, energy, and electronics often design complex nanoscale particles that are predicted to have useful functions,&#8221; said Raymond E. Schaak, DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry at Penn State and the leader of the research team. &#8220;But making them in the laboratory is often the bottleneck. Our strategy can help to streamline this process.&#8221; A paper describing the team&#8217;s strategy and the large library of particles that they can now make appears May 4, 2018 in the journal Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of chemists at Penn State has developed a designer&#8217;s toolkit that lets them build various levels of complexity into nanoparticles using a simple, mix-and-match process. &#8220;Researchers in areas as diverse as medicine, energy, and electronics often &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470292,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470291\/revisions\/470292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}