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Texas A&M: Under Loading Ceramics Self-Heal Cracks by Forming Kink-Bands
September 01, 2021
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 1 (TNSJou) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news:

By Dharmesh Patel

Ceramics are resilient to heat and extreme environments but they are fragile and crack easily. Recently, in a study published in Science Advances, researchers at Texas A&M University have discovered a self-healing mechanism within a type of ceramics, called MAX phases. They have shown that these engineered ceramics form natu . . .

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