Researchers at Linköping University (Sweden) have for the first time managed to create gold sheets one atom thick. The sheets have properties with multiple applications such as producing hydrogen, purifying water, and manufacturing chemical products, among others.
To create the goldeno, the team used a three-dimensional base material in which gold is embedded between layers of titanium and carbon. The discovery was made using a technique used in the art ofJapanese forging for more than a hundred years. The results were published this Tuesday in the journal Nature Synthesis, which is published by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and is based on an article by Shun Kashiwaya, a researcher at the same university, and published by Elsevier, in the U.S. for the same reason. The study was published on behalf of the Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Swedish National Research Council, which published the article in its online edition.