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Sound waves may let researchers remotely tune material stiffness on demand

A team co-led by UC San Diego and the University of Michigan reports that short pulses of sound could remotely drag a structural defect through a metamaterial lattice, potentially letting researchers ...
Nature

Effect of defects on the intrinsic strength and stiffness of graphene

Pristine (that is, defect-free) graphene exhibits ultra-high elastic modulus and unsurpassed strength 1. Atomic force microscope (AFM)-based nanoindentation experiments performed on defect-free ...