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Canadian university invents a glass that bends but doesn't break

New Delhi: The Department of Mechanical Engineering of  McGill University  in Canada has invented a new technique  to significantly increase the toughness of glass so that when it falls from a table on the floor



Barthelat and his team studied the internal ‘weak' boundaries or edges to be found in natural materials like nacre and then use lasers to engrave networks of 3D micro-cracks in glass slides in order to create similar weak boundaries.

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