‘Goldene’ is a gilded cousin of graphene that is one atom thick

[ad_1] Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Researchers have synthesized sheets of gold that are one atom thick.Credit: imaginima/Getty Goldene is a cousin of graphene, the single-atom-thick sheet of carbon first discovered in 2004 — but made of gold. Goldene is roughly … Read more

this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick

[ad_1] It is the world’s thinnest gold leaf: a gossamer sheet of gold just one atom thick. Researchers have synthesized1 the long-sought material, known as goldene, which is expected to capture light in ways that could be useful in applications such as sensing and catalysis. Goldene is a gilded cousin of graphene, the iconic atom-thin … Read more