Indian scientists develop "Black gold" a wonderful material. What is black gold ?
Indian scientists develop "Black gold" a wonderful material. What is black gold ? Scientists at the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) used gold nanoparticles and by rearranging size and gaps between them developed a new material which has unique properties. Such as capacity to absorb light and carbon dioxide (CO2). Gold doesn't have these properties, therefore ‘black gold’ is being called a new material. In appearance it is black, hence the name ‘black gold’ They have not doped gold nanoparticles with any other material or added other materials. They varied inter-particle distance between gold nanoparticles using a cycle-by-cycle growth approach by optimizing the nucleation growth step, using dendritic fibrous nanosilica. Which fibers were used as the deposition site for gold nanoparticles. Black Gold can act as Artificial Tree :- Black gold could also act as a catalyst and could convert CO2 into methane (CH4) at atmospheric pressure and temperat...