Lithium, whose silvery-white colour tarnishes on oxidation when exposed to air, is the most electropositive metal (−3.04 V versus a standard hydrogen electode), the lightest (M = 6.94 g mol −1 ...

The synthesis of single-atom layer versions of a range of atoms ... Now researchers have found a way to make monolayers of gold – called goldene – which allows for the synthesis of relatively ...

The thinnest bands of gold - just a single atom layer thick - have been created using a century-old technique. The ...

Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding ... emitted by the radioactive element radium) at a sheet of gold foil only 1/3000 of an inch thick, and tracing the particles' paths.