News Researchers create Goldene — a single atomic layer of gold with semiconductor properties

[Admin]

Researchers from Linköping University claim to be the first to have successfully created sheets of gold composed of just a single atomic layer. Goldene has arrived, and just like the much-heralded 2D wonder material Graphene it is said to deliver some highly attractive properties.

Researchers create Goldene — a single atomic layer of gold with semiconductor properties : Read more

 

[Notton]

This might be a good read on why goldene acts like a semiconductor.
Theoretically, Silverene would act similarly.
Not sure about Copperene or Platinumene.

https://www.mpg.de/14903250/gold-silver-layer-twodimension-semiconductor

 

[Li Ken-un]

I’d argue for the Latinate aurene (from aurum, whence Au also came), but it’s discovery happened in a Germanic institution so I’ll give it a pass.

 

[usertests]

Gold leaf is apparently around 500 atoms thick.

Gold nanosheets with 2 atomic layers were described in 2019:

https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news2/newsid=53329.php

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.201900911

 

[LabRat 891]

This reminds me of some post-TNG Star Trek lore: Gold is a synthesized commodity element, vital in all computational circuitry.

Maybe Roddenberry-Berman were onto something

 

[bit_user]

This reminds me of some post-TNG Star Trek lore: Gold is a synthesized commodity element, vital in all computational circuitry.

Maybe Roddenberry-Berman were onto something

Since this doesn't involve nuclear fusion, I assume your comment is about the latter part.

As for whether he had any such deep insights, gold was used for plating electrical contacts even back in his day. IIRC it featured prominently in some early satellites and space probes. In a space-faring civilization, it would seem natural for him to conclude that its importance would increase proportionately. In order to truly know what he meant by this, we'd have to look at the available research at the time that was written, as well as his access to it and comprehension of such subjects.