NIST finds 'a touch of glass' in metal, settles century-old question
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 10:42
in Physics & Chemistry
Better predictions of how many valuable materials behave under stress could be on the way from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists have recently found evidence of an important similarity between the behavior of polycrystalline materials -such as metals and ceramics -and glasses.