Crucially, the silver remained in its positively charged ionic form rather than becoming metallic again. The researchers ...

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Material engineers and scientists have long wanted to understand the atomic structures of amorphous solids such as glass, rubber and plastics more fully. Unlike the structures of crystalline materials ...

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