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The chunky square clamped into a test device at the National Research Council laboratory looks for all the world like a fat ice cream sandwich. Then the machine, electric motor whirring, begins pulling up on the sandwich’s top layer. The thick square at first resists the effort to tug it apart — clearly, this is no dairy confection — but then, with a snap, surrenders.

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