Researchers found that, in the presence of water, aluminum ions (gray) on the surface of alumina bond to six oxygen ions (red). Heating removes the water and leaves some aluminum ions with only ...

Caption Images of aluminum alloy 7075 taken with a scanning electron microscope before (A), during (B), and after (C) going through the ShAPE machine show how the microstructure of the alloy ...

In the context of alumina (Al 2 O 3), TGA helps detect thermal events like dehydration, dehydroxylation, and impurity decomposition. Image Credit: Oleh Chernyshov/Shutterstock.com This article ...