Due to the metal’s propensity to bunch together, scientists have long attempted but failed to create only one-atom-thick sheet of gold. However, LiU researchers achieved success with the help of ...

Last year, scientists created a gold sheet that was a single atom thick, which they dubbed "goldene" after graphene ... and extremely efficient catalysts for chemical reactions. One issue is that the ...

An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long. You can beat it into a leaf just one atom thick. Yet there is one thing you cannot do, and that is destroy it. You can change its form ...