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Nanocrystalline alloys have excellent low-temperature mechanical strength but poor high-temperature resistance to creep — deformation due to continuous stress. An alloy has been made that overcomes this problem. See Letter p.378

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Figure 1: A creep-resistant nanocrystalline alloy.

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  1. Jonathan Cormier is at École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d'Aérotechnique, Institut Pprime, UPR CNRS 3346, 86961 Futuroscope-Chasseneuil, France.,

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Cormier, J. Not so creepy under stress. Nature 537, 315–316 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/537315a

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