Borrowing from pastry chefs, engineers create nanolayered composites

Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 14:21 in Physics & Chemistry

Adapting an old trick used for centuries by both metalsmiths and pastry makers, a team of researchers at MIT has found a way to efficiently create composite materials containing hundreds of layers that are just atoms thick but span the full width of the material. The discovery could open up wide-ranging possibilities for designing new, […]

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