(Nanowerk News) No self-respecting construction engineer would ever choose pure calcite – a weak, brittle mineral found in chalk – as a building material. But what if you could somehow strengthen ...

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Researchers have jointly led an expansive, years-long international collaboration that has resulted in a paper detailing the ability to control and increase resistance to deformation in pure calcite ...