Nanogold doesn't glitter, but its future looks bright
(April 27, 2004) Bethlehem, Pa.—All that glitters is not gold, goes the old adage. But the shrinking frontiers of science require a qualifier: gold itself does not always glitter. In fact, if gold is created in small enough chunks, it turns red, blue, yellow and other colors, says Chris Kiely, who directs the new Nanocharacterization Laboratory in Lehigh's Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.