---
title: "Landmark Discovery In Gold Nanorod Instability"
description: "Researchers have discovered an instability in gold nanoparticles that is critical for their application in future technology."
date: "2014-12-08"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Alex Klokus"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/alex-klokus"
url: "https://futurism.com/landmark-discovery-gold-nanorod-instability"
categories:
  - "Future Materials"
  - "Nanotech"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "nanotech"
---

# Landmark Discovery In Gold Nanorod Instability

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/reshaping600.jpg>)

- Gold nanorods are important building blocks for future applications in solar cells, cancer therapy and optical circuitry
- Surface atom diffusion is a process involving the motion of molecules at solid material surfaces that can generally be thought of in terms of particles jumping between adjacent adsorption sites on a surface
- The more finely nanoparticles are shaped, the less stable they become.

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexklokus>)