But fabricating it as a non-crystalline film thin enough for nanoelectronics posed ... of high-efficiency electronics — one ultrathin wire at a time. The results appeared in the journal Science.

Stanford University researchers have created a new super-thin material that conducts electricity better than copper when made ...

For now, it's not known exactly what properties these exotically thin metal sheets may have, but their relatively large sizes are said to create new possibilities for practical applications.

In an article published in the journal Nature on Thursday, the researchers said that compared to their bulkier counterparts, their ultra-thin metal sheets – especially one-atom-thick bismuth ...