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The benefits of being repellentThe accumulation of foreign substances on a surface, whether it is dirt on a window or ice on an airplane wing, can lead to hazardous conditions. Many surfaces have been engineered to resist the accumulation…

Rhodium atoms for alkane dehydrogenationNanoparticles of rhodium dispersed on metal oxides are generally poor catalysts for alkane dehydrogenation because the reactants bind too strongly to the metal. Hannagan et al. performed…

SummaryThe discovery of ferroelectricity marks its 100th anniversary this year (1), and this phenomenon continues to enrich our understanding of many fields of physics and material science, as well as creating subfields on its own. All of…