Intelligent steel for safer cars
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As ductile as a rubber band: Extremely fine and uniformly distributed granules provide new types of steel their "super-plasticity". Above: the original component; middle: symmetrical extension by a factor of 850, below: elongation after fracture at 1025 percent. Image: Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH
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