The group has been featured in Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Top-10 Science Successes of 2016 for contributions in advanced data analytics. PDF analysis of the x-ray scattering data revealed two polymorphs of gold-144 nanoparticles including a structure never seen before. The discovery shines the light on the atomic arrangement within these gold nanoparticles and paves the way for finding other polymorphic nanoparticles.

The full news story can be found here: https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=112010

The selection into the Top-10 followed an earlier news story that can be found here: http://www.lightsources.org/press-release/2016/06/17/discovery-gold-nanocluster-double-hints-other-shape-changing-particles