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Gold is not "highly biodegradable". Are you confusing that with biocompatible?

• eliasgriffin 3y ago
  No, I did not mean that although it is both. References: (Direct quote) How Gold Is Used In Aerospace: Gold Plating In Satellites https://www.valencesurfacetech.com/the-news/gold-plating-in-satellites/ https://www.valencesurfacetech.com/the-news/gold-plating-in-... Biodegradable Gold Nanoclusters with Improved Excretion Due to pH-Triggered Hydrophobic-to-Hydrophilic Transition https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b13813 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b13813 Gold nanoparticles: Synthesis properties and applications https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1018364721002214 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S101836472...
  • sokoloff 3y ago
    The innovation in the second link is an innovation precisely because gold is not biodegradable.