Scientists Produce Metals With Four Times the Hardness | IE - Interesting Engineering

And the team notes that the technique is fairly simple to execute.

For this research, the team used nanoparticles of gold, silver, palladium, and other metals and chemically stripped them of the organic molecules called ligands, which generally prevent the formation of metal-metal bonds between particles.

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