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Machine learning simulations reveal how plastic transforms into hard carbon
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What we know
In a new study published in Chemical Science, researchers from the University of Oxford's Department of Chemistry have used machine learning simulations to trace how a common polymer transforms into hard carbon, revealing the atomic-scale processes that give this technologically important material its disordered structure.
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Machine learning simulations reveal how plastic transforms into hard carbon
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