Jim Hutchison has worked with tiny gold nanoparticles for over a decade. For many years, particle creation entailed a days-long set up of flasks, vials and tubes taking up an entire wall of a University of Oregon laboratory. On creation day, Hutchison could be found holding a fire extinguisher to his chest, waiting for diborane gas to gust from a tube, which signaled formation of particles but might also result in a fireball as the gas hit lab air.

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