Some materials behave unexpectedly. They crack differently than expected, or react in ways that are hard to explain. The ...

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Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a surprising mathematical connection between two areas of condensed ...

For years, researchers have known that carbon, when arranged in a certain way, can be very strong. Case in point: graphene. Graphene, which was heretofore, the strongest material known to man, is made ...