Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high ...

gold is usually a metal, but if single-atom-layer thick, the gold can become a semiconductor instead." Historically, attempts to create single-atom sheets of gold have been hindered due to the ...

Sheets of metal just two atoms thick can be produced ... Last year, scientists created a gold sheet that was a single atom thick, which they dubbed “goldene” after graphene, a material made ...