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Thermal spray fabricates nature-inspired ceramic composites that mimic nacre

By April Gocha / July 6, 2015

Researchers from Stony Brook University have recently reported the ability to use thermal-sprayed ceramic deposits as templates for synthesis of ceramic–polymer composites with striking microstructural similarity and mechanical behavior similar to those observed in nacre.

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Pill-shaped precipitates

By / February 13, 2009

Everyone who has paid their dues in a chem lab is familiar with processes that precipitate materials shaped as spheres, cubes, rods and needles. It’s also not unusual to see…

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