Brittle Starfish Shows How to Make Tough Ceramics (IMAGE)

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Brittle Starfish Shows How to Make Tough Ceramics

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Schematic illustration showing the various scales, from the brittle star organism, the arm plate, the lenses and the TEM image showing the coherently aligned nano precipitates within the lattice.

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Iryna Polishchuk

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