From playing cards to tectonic plates, layered materials pushed to the brink
Date | 2nd, Jan 2019 |
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Source | ScienceDaily - General News Websites |
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Looking deeper into the internal behavior of layered solids and formations -- from graphene sheets, to wood laminates, to geological formations -- researchers are gaining a better understanding of a buckling phenomenon that occurs within the layers of the materials as they are put under pressure.