Global and Local Connectivities Describe Hydrogen Intercalation in Metal Oxides
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 108001 (2023) – Published 7 September 2023
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The reactivity of a material is describable using only the arrangement of its atoms, a finding that could be used to speed up the search for new catalytic materials.

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 for the two-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall insulator does not necessarily encode a topological invariant of the ground state, in contrast to expectations.

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Global and Local Connectivities Describe Hydrogen Intercalation in Metal Oxides
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 108001 (2023) – Published 7 September 2023
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