Heterometallic copper-aluminum super atom discovered

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 06:02 in Physics & Chemistry

On the outside, a cluster of 55 copper and aluminum atoms looks like a crystal, but chemically, it has the properties of an atom. The heterometallic superatom, which chemists of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now created, provides the prerequisites for developing new, more cost-effective catalysts.

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