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Sheared Aluminum's Odd, Possibly Useful Behavior

Posted by timothy on from the sliced-at-the-root dept.

Chiggy_Von_Richtoffe writes "Researchers at Ohio State University have turned up some interesting things about aluminum when sheared at the atomic leavel. Apparently it mimics certain ceramics and semiconductors, as well as having a stronger shear-strength than copper. I can't wait until we can get all sorts of cool new toys from this vein of research."

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  1. cool toys? by jericho4.0 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    'this could mean that aluminum behaves more like ceramics in certain ways than anyone had previously thought'

    Sorry, but this just doesn't qualify as news. Science, yes. But even as science it's just another tiny step towards our nano-tech-utopia fantasy.

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  2. Re:ceramic? by Raiford · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Ceramics are not isolated to high-temperature engineering applications. High-dielectric materials such as the titanates for capacitors and many pizeoelectrics are used at room termperature just like other semiconductor materials.

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