How many gold atoms make gold metal?
Häkkinen, H., & Malola, S. (2015). How many gold atoms make gold metal?. Europhysics News, 46 (4), 23-26. doi:10.1051/epn/2015402 Retrieved from http://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2015/04/epn2015464p23....
Published in
Europhysics NewsDate
2015Discipline
Fysikaalinen kemiaCopyright
© the Authors & European Physical Society. This is an open access article published by EDP Sciences.
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?
Publisher
European Physical Society, EDP SciencesISSN Search the Publication Forum
0531-7479Keywords