Brittle Starfish Make Tough Ceramics

ENN
Dec 13, 2017, 8:22 am28 pts
An international research team led by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has discovered how a beautiful, brainless brittle star can create material similar to tempered glass underwater at ambient conditions. The findings, published in the December…

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