How many gold atoms make gold metal?
Abstract
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?
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Format
Articles
Journal article
Published
2015
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
European Physical Society, EDP Sciences
Original source
http://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2015/04/epn2015464p23.pdf
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201601291342Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Review status
Non-peer reviewed
ISSN
0531-7479
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2015402
Language
English
Published in
Europhysics News
Citation
- Häkkinen, H., & Malola, S. (2015). How many gold atoms make gold metal?. Europhysics News, 46(4), 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2015402
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