Oxidation can drastically change mechanical properties of nanostructures that typically have large surface-to-volume ratios. However, the underlying mechanisms describing the effect oxidation has ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Aluminium can be obtained from aluminium ore (Al 2 O 3) by a process called electrolysis. Oxygen is also produced by ...

I’ll agree that the cover image looks a bit odd, but I don’t think the chemistry is too weird. They are turning a 100 nm film of aluminium (so about the same thickness as gold leaf) into its ...