Made Better Through Science: Calcite Tuned to Be Mollusk-Tough
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 09:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Cornell researchers, together with a team from the University of Leeds (U.K.), have jointly led an expansive, years-long international collaboration that has resulted in a paper detailing the ability to control and increase resistance to deformation in pure calcite through the introduction of amino acids.