Gold nanoparticles could transform trees Into street lights that glow in the dark - Inhabitat

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I'm not quite sure how this would work in practice, but it's an amazing concept - replace street lights with trees that glow in the dark. "A group of scientists in Taiwan recently discovered that placing gold nanoparticles within the leaves of trees, causes them to give off a luminous reddish glow," says the inhabitat article. I'm not sure how you "place" nanoparticles in leaves, but where there's a will there's a way.

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