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Airplane Skins: 10 Times Stronger with Nano-Stitching

Composite materials are increasingly a feature of our engineering--they're super-strong and light, outperforming metals like steel with ease, which is why they're often used in aeronautical engineering. Now a group at MIT has figured ...READ»

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Horseradish To Clean Up Risky Carbon Nanotube Spills

Carbon nanotubes are one of the nanotechnology wonder materials of the near future, used in electronics, optics, for super-strong materials and as novel semiconductors, but there are emerging concerns about the environmental and ...READ»

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