Greg Dunn In one of Dunn’s signature techniques, drawing from the canon of East Asian art, he lays down delicate sheets of gold leaf the size ... It’s just nature, right?

It is the world’s thinnest gold leaf: a gossamer sheet of gold just one atom thick. Researchers have synthesized 1 the long-sought material, known as goldene, which is expected to capture light ...

Rather than being a new source of "gold leaf," the discovery could provide ... has published details of their discovery in the journal Nature Communications.