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Beyond the bonds that bind: UCSB researchers discover hydrogen can form multicenter bonds
12-03-2006 · EurekAlert!Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have shown that, under the right circumstances, hydrogen can form multicenter bonds, where one hydrogen atom simultaneously bonds to as many as four or six other atoms. Tested for hydrogen in metal oxides, the discovery could have a broad range of technological impact. The research is available today in the advance online publication of Nature Materials.
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