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    Initial corrosion observed on the atomic scale

    Electrochemical corrosion creates problems for engineers, and destroys over 3% of the world's GDP. But decomposition processes can be useful too, for example in the formation of porous metals. For good or ill,...

    F. U. Renner, A. Stierle, H. Dosch, D. M. Kolb, T.-L. Lee, J. Zegenhagen in Nature (2006)