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  • New spongy material instantly hardens on exposure to magnetism

    New spongy material instantly hardens on exposure to magnetism

    A new kind of material (of which currently no actual picture exists anywhere) with the consistency of pudding that hardens instantly when exposed to magnetism has been developed by a team of researchers at Japan's Yamagata University. And once the substance, a mix between high polymer and iron oxide granules, hardens, it can become up to 500 times stiffer than plastic.

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