Researchers create gold aluminum, black platinum, blue silver

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Gold platinum blue titanium and gold aluminum. Credit: Richard Baker University of Rochester
Gold platinum, blue titanium, and gold aluminum. Credit: Richard Baker, University of Rochester

Using a tabletop laser, a University of Rochester optical scientist has turned pure aluminum, gold. And blue. And gray. And many other colors. And it works for every metal tested, including platinum, titanium, tungsten, silver, and gold.


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