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Nano-Sized Light Mill Drives Micro-Sized Disk
While those wonderful light sabers in the Star Wars films remain the figment of George Lucas' fertile...

New Adhesive for Tape, Label Industry, Developed
An incidental discovery in a wood products lab at Oregon State University has produced a new pressure-sensitive...

Berkeley Lab Scientist Designs Self-Assembling Composite Materials At Nanometer Scale
Nature has used self-assembling materials for structures measured in nanometers (billionths of a meter)...

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Database of Resources User Guide

Our Database of Resources contains over 2000 resources in materials science and materials education. These are some of the latest resources added to the database:

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