(Nanowerk News) Gilding is the process of coating intricate artifacts with precious metals. Ancient Egyptians and Chinese coated their sculptures with thin metal films using gilding—and these golden ...

For the last two weeks in September, high school students taking art teacher Brian Sago's Intro to Printmaking class learned about gilding. "Gilding is the application of genuine or metal leaf on a ...

Gilding is the process of coating intricate artifacts with precious metals. Ancient Egyptians and Chinese coated their sculptures with thin metal films using gilding. Scientists inspired by this ...

image: L: An artist rendering of graphene gilding on Tutankhamun's middle coffin (original photograph copyright: Griffith Institute, University of Oxford). R: Microscope image of a graphene crystal is ...