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Tkachenko and Zaliznyak

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gor Zaliznyak, a physicist in Brookhaven Lab's Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Division (right), led a team of scientists including Alexei Tkachenko of the Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (left) to decipher the mechanism underlying scandium fluoride's ability to shrink upon heating.

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