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Materials Science coming of age
For decades, materials scientists have taken inspiration from the natural world. They identify a biological material that has some desirable trait, such as the toughness of bones or conch shells, and reverse-engineer it. Then, once they have determined the material’s ‘microstructure,’ they try to approximate it in human-made materials.