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Is single atom thick gold somewhat optically transparent?
It likely only exists in extremely specific conditions, not just like a sheet.
I’m guessing it’s somewhat similar to a microscopic layer around a material that we never notice.
What is the greatest thing we have been able to use graphene for so far?
What is the greatest thing we have been able to use graphene for so far?
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If you can see or handle it, it's not a single atom thick.
Graphene is definitely observable every time you use a pencil. It will mostly be graphite, but parts are graphene as well. And if that isn't enough, the tape method of producing graphene also makes a visible layer.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you can see or handle it, it's not a single atom thick.
Graphene is definitely observable every time you use a pencil. It will mostly be graphite, but parts are graphene as well. And if that isn't enough, the tape method of producing graphene also makes a visible layer.
What is the greatest thing we have been able to use graphene for so far?
Serendipidy means something like unexpected good fortune, but the folktale it comes from (The Three Princes of Serendip - weirdly nostalgic, link below) implies a different meaning.
The princes don't roam around with unbelievable luck; rather, they are aware of the world around them and consider what it implies.
Probably its meaning now has somehow evolved, which is cool. I pay a lot of attention to the (current states of) evolutions of things. I see it as a kind of refinement process, where valuable things persist. So the valuable thing in question is the idea of unbelievable luck and the raw material was a broad awareness of your surroundings and its implications. Maybe, through generations, people came to understand that the latter manifests the former and this realization became reflected in the usage of the word, resulting in its evolved (current) state.
Consider the sum total of all human reason required to evolve this word as the intellect of one person. This superintelligence has then made explicit the idea that awareness manifests luck, which also makes intuitive sense.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:The_Three_Princes...
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Electron microscopes are capable of resolving details that small. Here's a side-on view of what they did. You can see the individual gold atoms. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-024-00518-4/figures/1 And here's a top down view https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-024-00518-4/figures/2 Both of these are from the paper describing their process and results https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-024-00518-4