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Chinese team develops first ceramic material that can bend like metal
The technology could boost the performance of engines and be used to make better artificial joints and wind turbine components, according to scientist.
Chinese scientists have developed the world’s first ceramic material that can bend like metal, a technology that could boost the performance of engines and lead to better artificial joints.
Plasticity and strength were previously considered opposing qualities of ceramics – improvement in one typically meant a decline in the other. But the new material, which has the hardness of ceramic and the flexibility of metal, is the first example of scientists improving both at the same time, according to materials scientist Chen Kexin, who led the research.