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Chameleon Metals. Metal passivating oxide layers are complex pseudo-equilibrium systems with a plethora of undiscovered features. In their Research Article on page 352, M. Thuo et al. exploit the complexity of such a thin oxide layer to engineer surface design and structure, resulting in the formation of compositionally inverted surface features and nanoscale fractal-like designs.
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