Invisible Light Flashes Ignite "Nano-Fireworks"

As people around the world prepared for the excitement of New Years Eve and the fireworks that often accompany the stroke of midnight, fireworks of a different kind were taking place at a laboratory in Berlin.Nanoparticles, clusters of atoms roughly a billionth of a meter in size, are rapidly finding applications in everything from highly-targeted drug delivery to the fabrication of metamaterials--substances that display properties unseen in nature. To utilize these tiny tools, scientists need t...