{"id":187624,"date":"2024-04-18T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/strange-new-form-of-gold-exists-as-a-sheet-thats-just-one-atom-thick"},"modified":"2024-04-18T14:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T19:31:06","slug":"strange-new-form-of-gold-exists-as-a-sheet-thats-just-one-atom-thick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/strange-new-form-of-gold-exists-as-a-sheet-thats-just-one-atom-thick","title":{"rendered":"Strange New Form of Gold Exists as a Sheet That\u2019s Just One Atom Thick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strange-new-form-of-gold-exists-as-a-sheet-thats-just-one-atom-thick2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For centuries, goldsmiths have sought ways to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-famous-golden-palace-in-spain-is-turning-purple-and-now-we-know-why\">flatten gold<\/a> into ever finer forms. An approach based in modern chemistry has finally created a gold material that literally can\u2019t get any thinner, consisting of a single layer of atoms.<\/p>\n<p>Sticking to the naming conventions of materials science, researchers have named this new two-dimensional material \u2018goldene\u2019, and it has some interesting properties not seen in the three-dimensional form of gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you make a material extremely thin, something extraordinary happens \u2013 as with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graphene\">graphene<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1041079\">explains materials scientist Shun Kashiwaya<\/a> of Link\u00f6ping University in Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For centuries, goldsmiths have sought ways to flatten gold into ever finer forms. An approach based in modern chemistry has finally created a gold material that literally can\u2019t get any thinner, consisting of a single layer of atoms. Sticking to the naming conventions of materials science, researchers have named this new two-dimensional material \u2018goldene\u2019, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}