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"One can for example add functional groups on the surface or substitute specific nitrogen or carbon atoms with oxygen or phosphorus atoms."
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To make the system more powerful, the researchers combined the framework with machine learning potentials that capture how atoms interact and move.
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His work built on an earlier proposal by Max Planck in 1900 that atoms emit and absorb energy in discrete packets rather than continuous amounts.
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This type of radiation, known as Lyman alpha light, is released in large amounts when hydrogen atoms absorb energy from nearby stars.
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Materials can behave in surprising ways when they are thinned down layer by layer until they are only a single atom thick.
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