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Glass is stiffer than steel
US scientists make the glass tough and durable than any material that people know.
Hardness
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Super-durable material from spider silk
Spider silk is already stiffer and lighter than steel, but now scientists have figured out how to increase its hardness by three times by adding a small amount of metal.
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Nanomaterials with record hardness
Natalia Dubrovinskaia (University of Heidelberg, Germany) together with colleagues in Bayreuth (Germany), Paris and Grenoble (France) successfully synthesized a super ha…
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'Smart' materials
* Material that can change hardness and elasticity: Scientists have taken fine gypsum powder, limestone powder and fine coal, mixed it into olive oil and some water and…