Copper-Aluminum Superatom (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Copper-Aluminum Superatom (1 of 2)

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From the outside, the cluster made of 55 copper and aluminum atoms looks like a crystal, but chemically it has the properties of an atom. The heterometallic superatom created at Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich is the largest ever produced in the laboratory.

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Christian Gemel / TUM

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