STRETCHY SALT Brittle salt becomes elastic in the nanoworld, stretching into wires when pulled with a microscope tip, researchers report. Nathan Moore et al./Nano Letters
Inflexible old salt becomes a softy in the nanoworld, stretching like taffy to more than twice its length, researchers report in the June 10 Nano Letters.
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