High-Concentration Multibranched Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis via Controllable Seeding.

Engineering gold nanostructures with a high number of sharp branches allows harvesting near-infrared light-induced localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effects in which free electrons are brought into oscillation with exceptional electromagnetic field enhancement at the branch tips of these particles. These tip effects make such particles promising candidates for biological, catalytic, and spectroscopic applications. In this work, a scale-up process for highly multibranched gold nanoparticles at high concentrations (2.

Genome Sequences of Microbacterium foliorum Phages Anseraureola, Pondwater, and Yasuo.

Anseraureola, Pondwater, and Yasuo are bacteriophages with siphovirus morphology that infect Microbacterium foliorum NRRL B-24224. They were isolated from soil collected in Amherst, Massachusetts, and have genome lengths between 17,362 bp and 17,453 bp. These phages each contain 25 predicted protein-coding genes and are assigned to phage cluster EE.