New study in Nature shows how metals can be patterned at the nanoscale to be more resistant to fatigue, the slow accumulation of internal damage from repetitive strain, using nanotwins, tiny linear boundaries in a metal's atomic lattice that have identical crystalline structures on either side.

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New study in Nature shows how metals can be patterned at the nanoscale to be more resistant to fatigue, the slow accumulation of internal damage from repetitive strain, using nanotwins, tiny linear boundaries in a metal's atomic lattice that have identical crystalline structures on either side.