Yes, mollusks. Mollusks have a special composite material lining their inner shell, known as “nacre.” Nacre, also known as ...

Chemically this material is the same as grey iron and is iron-carbon-silicon alloy. It is one of the more recent developments in cast iron technology and has been around since 1948. As the name ...

In the 1900s it was discovered that ceramic materials, at least in principle, can be permanently deformed without fracture at room temperature. Since then, materials researchers have dreamed of making ...

A team of researchers from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Tianmushan Laboratory, and the National University of Singapore has pioneered a new method for crafting an ultra-strong, ductile alloy using 3D ...

Ideally, steels and steel-related alloys should be capable of both properties: they should not fragment, for example during processing in a mill or as car bodies involved in an accident. In other ...