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The Note 7 Lesson: Why Lithium Batteries Fail

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Taking the Droplet Worldwide: The PCT Application

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The Droplet That Obeys Voltage: The US Patent

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Sixteen in Baldwinsville NY

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The Tennis Ball That Changed My Life

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One Patient, One Case Report (Ep. 62A) [NEW EDITION]

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Hot Deformation Behavior of Al2O3-Cu/35Cr3TiB2 Composites with Y2O3 (Ep. 31A) [NEW EDITION]

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Effects of Trace La on the Aging Properties of the Cu-Ti-Zr Alloys (Ep. 29A) [NEW EDITION]

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Fracture Toughness of Micron-Thick Hard Coatings Based on Crack Spacing (Ep. 28A) [NEW EDITION]

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Experimental and Computational Study of the NiTi Thin Wires Mechanical Behavior (Ep. 27A) [NEW EDITION]

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Steelman Sessions Pilot: Digital Precision in Metrology

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Laser-Hammered Steel

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Budget Titanium

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Stirring Aluminum That Hates Welding

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Sewer Gas Without Borders

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Smart Polymer Sandwiches for Cells

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Tungsten Makes Implants Visible

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Magnesium Implants vs. Infection

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Titanium Opens the Hot Window

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Chromium Strengthens Hot Copper

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Dialing in the perfect hard coating

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A laser that sniffs out lung leaks

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Rebuilding the windpipe from the outside

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Plastic wrap that changes color under pressure

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A pinch of magnesium, a thousand megapascals

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Diamond-Hard, Slippery, and Body-Friendly

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Reading the Breathing Muscle on a CT Scan

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A Pinch of Titanium That Tames the Heat

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The Cat, the Tear Duct, and the Autonosode

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The Tiny Label Confusing All of Science

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Ep 556: Hot Drawing the First Tube

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Ep 555: Modeling the Furnace

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Ep 554: Composite Tubes by Computer

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Ep 553: Predicting Copper Adhesion

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Ep 552: When Water Attacks Adhesion

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Ep 551: Testing Fine Lines, Big

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Ep 550: Listening to Fracture

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Ep 549: Five Stages Under the Indenter

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Ep 548: The Stressed Superlayer

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Ep 547: Annealing Gold-Chromium Films

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Ep 546: Brittle to Ductile

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Ep 545: Debonding Ductile Films

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Ep 544: Ductile Layers, Tougher Joints

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Ep 543: Geometry and Plasticity

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Ep 542: Plasma Rescue for Copper

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Ep 541: Electroplated Copper, Up Close

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Ep 540: Modeling the Scratch Test

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Ep 539: Diffusion That Strengthens Gold

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Ep 538: Screening Fragile Dielectrics

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Ep 537: Reading the Crack's Footprints

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Ep 536: Superlayers: The Final Report

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Ep 535: Plastic Zones Under Pressure

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Ep 534: Copper Stress on Barriers

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Ep 533: Gold Films That Stay Put

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Ep 532: Silicate Low-K Under the Indenter

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Ep 531: Marks That Measure Toughness

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Ep 530: Measuring Film Toughness

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Ep 529: Fiducial Marks of Delamination

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Ep 528: Low-K Films Under Pressure

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Ep 527: Watching Cords Be Born

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Ep 526: The Sponge Has a Rule

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Ep 525: Chemistry Plus Plasticity

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Ep 524: The Interconnect Battlefield

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Ep 523: Strain Is Free Performance

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Ep 522: Films That Shine

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Ep 521: Thermodynamics Did It

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Ep 520: One Bit, One Story

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Ep 519: The Whole Fracture Gallery

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Ep 518: Tiny Crystal, Extreme Memory

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Ep 517: Reading the Crack's Fossil

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Ep 516: One Scale to Rule the Small

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Ep 515: Squeezing the Glass Sponge

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Ep 514: When the Glue Walks Away

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Ep 513: The Reliability Field Manual

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Ep 512: Editing the Field Into Being

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Ep 511: The Manual for Breaking Interfaces

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Ep 510: A Thermometer Made of Damage

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Ep 509: Slow Cracks, True Adhesion

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Ep 508: Failure Hired as Fabricator

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Ep 507: The Crack Tip Is Allowed to Turn

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Ep 506: Hot Hardness

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Ep 505: Bending a Multilayer Mirror

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Ep 504: Two Pages That Named a Field

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Ep 503: Autopsy of a Memory Bit

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Ep 502: Light Measures the Transistor

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Ep 501: The Nanotech Toolbox

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Ep 500: Stress Draws, Films Crack

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Ep 499: Water Cuts Copper's Grip 20x

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Ep 498: Paint Is a Mechanical System

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Ep 497: Wet Cracks, Measured Right

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Ep 496: Oxides That Move Themselves

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Ep 495: Measuring Holes, All Sizes

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Ep 494: The Copper plus Low-K Era

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Ep 493: Velocity Threshold for Ripples

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Ep 492: Stress Plus Moisture Unzips Films

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Ep 491: The Interface Decides

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Ep 490: Chromium Oxide, Done Right

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Ep 489: Mapping the Thin Film Field

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Ep 488: Friction Is the Boss

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Ep 487: The Dancing Droplet