Graphene Membrane in a Gold Wire Scaffold (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Graphene Membrane in a Gold Wire Scaffold

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The thinnest material that will ever exist: The arrows point to a membrane that is as thin as a single atom. Here they hang on a scaffold of extremely fine gold wires. The black bar is equivalent to a length of 500 nanometers.

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

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