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Unusually stable glasses may benefit drugs, coatings

A new approach to making remarkably stable glassy materials from organic molecules, developed by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the NIST Center for Neutron Research, could lead to novel coatings and to improvements in drug delivery.

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