The Elements of Innovation Discovered
The Elements of Innovation Discovered
Metal Tech News - April 19, 2024
Use for thousands of years in gilding – a style of laminated gold over art or manuscripts – gold leaf has historically been the precious metal hammered into thin sheets at around 0.1 nanometers thick. Goldene is estimated to be roughly 400 times thinner than the thinnest gold leaf.
Joining the family of monoelemental crystals first set forth by graphene, Swedish researchers successfully develop the first one-atom-thick metal from gold.
Meet goldene, the latest addition to the family of xenes – a remarkable lineage of monoelemental crystals that began with graphene. Like its carbon cousin, gold was synthesized down to a thickness of one atom, which now boasts the distinction...
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