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 buckyballs discovered at Rice in 1985. Rice University chemists discovered that 32-atom gold fullerene molecules are one and the same as "seed" particles scientists have long used to synthesize myriad shapes and sizes of gold nanoparticles. (Figure courtesy of Jones lab/Rice University) Carbon buckyballs are hollow 60-atom molecules that were co-discovered and named by the late Rice chemist Richard Smalley .

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