{"id":188760,"date":"2024-05-06T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/a-single-atom-layer-of-gold-researchers-create-goldene-2"},"modified":"2024-05-06T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:23:47","slug":"a-single-atom-layer-of-gold-researchers-create-goldene-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/a-single-atom-layer-of-gold-researchers-create-goldene-2","title":{"rendered":"A Single Atom Layer of Gold: Researchers Create Goldene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-single-atom-layer-of-gold-researchers-create-goldene3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. The material has been termed goldene. According to researchers from Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden, this has given the gold new properties that can make it suitable for use in applications such as carbon dioxide conversion, hydrogen production, and production of value-added chemicals. Their findings are published in the journal Nature Synthesis.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long tried to make single-atom-thick sheets of gold but failed because the metal\u2019s tendency to lump together. But researchers from Link\u00f6ping University have now succeeded thanks to a hundred-year-old method used by Japanese smiths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you make a material extremely thin, something extraordinary happens \u2014 as with graphene. The same thing happens with gold. As you know, gold is usually a metal, but if single-atom-layer thick, the gold can become a semiconductor instead,\u201d says Shun Kashiwaya, researcher at the Materials Design Division at Link\u00f6ping University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. The material has been termed goldene. According to researchers from Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden, this has given the gold new properties that can make it suitable for use in applications such as carbon dioxide conversion, hydrogen production, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188760","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\/188760","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}