Ductile Ceramics (IMAGE)

Purdue University

Ductile Ceramics

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Purdue researchers observed for the first time how ceramics formed under an electric field surprisingly change shape rather than break when compressed at high strain. Pictured: Graduate research assistants Jaehun Cho and Qiang Li.

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Purdue University image/Vincent Walter

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