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How many gold atoms make gold metal?
Hannu HäkkinenSami Malolasubject
MetalatomitMaterials scienceatomsta114visual_artnanoparticleInorganic chemistryvisual_art.visual_art_mediumGeneral Physics and Astronomygoldta116kultadescription
It is well known that a piece of gold is an excellent metal: it conducts heat and electricity, it is malleable to work out for jewellery or thin coatings, and it has the characteristic golden colour. How do these everyday properties – familiar from our macroscopic world – change when a nanometre-size chunk of gold contains only 100, 200 or 300 atoms? nonPeerReviewed
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-01 |