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Nanotechnology

The angles where atoms meet could provide a path to new materials under extreme conditions

Credit: Nano Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c02395 How can we design materials that are stronger and lighter? What about new materials for extreme conditions such as jet engines and spacecraft? Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the PC Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Lehigh University The answer, says one Fadi Abdel-Jawad, may lie in the infinitesimal…