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As with Graphene, the same thing happens with gold.

For this task the team used an oxidizing reagent.

Lars Hultman, professor of thin film physics at the Department of physics, chemistry and biology (IFM)

We had created the base material with completely different applications in mind.

We started with an electrically conductive ceramics called titanium silicon carbide, where silicon is in thin layers.

Then the idea was to coat the material with gold to make a contact.

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