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Gold is not as noble as it is widely assumed—at least in the form of nanostructured gold clusters or the depicted multiwalled nanotubes. Recent progress shows the potential use of such structures, for example, in catalysis, molecular electronics, or as bioconjugate probes for gene analysis.
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