Inorganic–organic hybrid materials are attracting a strong scientific interest mainly for their outstanding inherent mechanical and thermal properties, which can be traced back to the intimate coupling of both inorganic and organic components. By carefully choosing the experimental parameters used for their synthesis, chemically and thermally stable acrylate-based hybrid material embedding the zirconium oxocluster Zr
4O
4(OMc)
12, where OMc
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CH
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C(CH
3)C(O)O, can be deposited as UV-cured films on aluminium alloys.