Tungsten carbide–cobalt (WC–Co) is prized for its hardness, but that same property makes it unusually difficult to shape. The current process is wasteful and expensive for the yield produced, and an ...

Imagine if a hard metal implant could be bonded to soft biological tissue without using any adhesive, then easily removed when no longer needed. That and other nifty things could soon be possible, ...

A nationwide collaboration led by researchers at Duke University's Center for Autonomous Materials Design is working to synthesize inexpensive materials hard enough to literally stir two pieces of ...