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Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)

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Clarity out of chaos: In amorphous alumina, aluminum atoms (grey) and oxygen atoms (red) do not arrange in an ordered crystalline structure. The model also visualizes hydrogen atoms (blue) closely binding to neighboring oxygen atoms, which alters the material's properties

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Empa

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