Metals and alloys news, December 2013

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A project where no fewer than twenty researchers from five universities worldwide have collaborated to prove that polymers can also be semimetals.

A research team at Berkeley Lab has discovered a way to introduce a recoverable strain into bismuth ferrite of up to 14-percent on the nanoscale.

Should we sacrifice part of our cultural heritage in order to achieve greater knowledge of the universe and the origin of humankind?

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