Nanomaterials Perform Better than Expected Under Stress
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland-College Park have discovered that materials such as silica that are quite brittle in bulk form behave as ductile as gold at the nanoscale. Their results may affect the design of future nanomachines. NIST scientists Pradeep Namboodiri ...
