Seashell-inspired shield
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Guangping Xu employs a digital optical microscope to examine the unusually hard coatings inspired by seashells that his lab has produced. The aim is better, cheaper protection of instruments and drivers in danger of fast-moving debris flung by Sandia’s Z machine when it fires. The coatings offer many other possibilities as well.
Learn more at bit.ly/3kA1bWL
Photo by Bret Latter
Seashell-inspired shield
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Guangping Xu employs a digital optical microscope to examine the unusually hard coatings inspired by seashells that his lab has produced. The aim is better, cheaper protection of instruments and drivers in danger of fast-moving debris flung by Sandia’s Z machine when it fires. The coatings offer many other possibilities as well.
Learn more at bit.ly/3kA1bWL
Photo by Bret Latter