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But he is the first in the modern era to so avidly try to deform the desire for fairness into the destruction of American democracy—and to have an entire party apparatus behind him.

The team's new study builds on previous experiments from the early 2000s by geologists at the University of Minnesota, who studied how small chips of ice deform when physically stressed and compressed.

When high loads are applied to superelastic materials they can deform to large strains which would result in a permanent strain in conventional materials without break.

"Our team was able to combine simulations and experiments to understand how to design a material that can seamlessly deform like skin and change the way electrical charges distribute inside it when it is stretched so as to stabilize radio-frequency communication," said Raudel Avila, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Rice and a lead author on the study.

Beyond this crossover point, the higher temperature increases the activity of phonons -- waves of sound or heat -- within the material, and these phonons interact with dislocations in the crystalline lattice in a way that limits their ability to slip and deform.