Spaced-out nanotwins make for stronger metals
Date | 2nd, Nov 2018 |
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Source | Phys.org - Scientific News Websites |
DESCRIPTION
Researchers from Brown University and the Institute of Metals Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a new way to use nanotwins—tiny linear boundaries in a metal's atomic lattice that have identical crystalline structures on either side—to make stronger metals.