New Scientist on MSN2d
Metals can be squeezed into sheets just a few atoms thick
Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high ...
China Daily1d
Chinese team creates ultrathin metal films for next-generation electronics
Chinese scientists have recently achieved a breakthrough in the fabrication of single-atom-layer metal materials boasting a ...
talker on MSN11mon
Scientists create bands of gold that are a single atom layer thick
“If you make a material extremely thin, something extraordinary happens – as with graphene. "The same thing happens with gold ...
BBC2y
Developing models of atoms
Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden tested the plum pudding model. They aimed beams of positively-charged particles at very thin gold foil. These particles ...
The Star1mon
Gold steadies in thin Asian trade after DeepSeek driven sell-off
U.S. gold futures rose 0.2% to $2,742.50. Gold declined more than 1% on Monday, the most since Dec. 18, as investors sold off bullion to cover losses stemming from a wider market sell-off that was ...
BGR7y
Feast your eyes on the first ever photo of a single atom hovering in thin air
They’re so small, in fact, that actually seeing an individual atom is pretty much impossible without the use of high-powered microscopes. I say “pretty much,” because there is apparently an ...
BBC1y
Developing models of atoms
Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden tested the plum pudding model. They aimed beams of positively-charged particles at very thin gold foil. These particles ...