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But the material can be damaged if a compliant region of the blade does the brunt of the cutting. In the razor blades studied by the team, the chances of this occurring depended both on the size of ...

For thousands of years, humans have combined metals to collectively harness properties found in individual components, producing such practical materials as bronze, brass and, more recently, steel.

Varying lattice properties such as element diameter and spacing (A), cross-sectional geometry and arrangement (B), and lattice rotation (C), can affect the stiffness profiles of lattice ...

Controlling the shape of 3D microstructures by temperature and light. Nature Communications, 2019; 10 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08175-w ...

Manufactured materials that duplicate the microstructures in Cyphochilus scales could have a variety of uses, Vukusic and his colleagues suggest in the Jan. 19 Science.

Scientists were able to 3D-print different microstructures inside live cells, including a delightfully tiny micro-elephant. The team also printed barcodes and tiny lasers that could both be used to ...

Springer. "Stock market microstructures: Modeling could help evaluate financial crises." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 22 November 2017. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 11 / 171122103559.htm>.