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2004-07-23T00:00:00

Glassy metal Architects may soon be specifying a new type of steel that borrows the atomic structure of glass to make it stronger, twice as hard and more corrosion-resistant than conventional steel. In a landmark breakthrough, material scientist Zhaoping Lu and his team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee ...

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