Drinks cans in Germany are aluminum (I live in Germany.) You can certainly crush them with your hands. Older cans were made of “Weißblech” – thin steel sheet metal, plated in tin.

According to a report in Nature(via Interesting Engineering), researchers from the Chinese Academy of Physics can create super-thin sheets, just one or two atoms thick, out of materials including ...

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high temperature and pressure between two sapphires Close Advertisement ...

The Thin furniture series is the first direct-to-consumer collection created by SF-SO founders Jae-hoon Jung and Ho-young Joo, ... The metal sheets have a thickness of just 1.6 millimetres.

Taking inspiration from ancient techniques, researchers have forged relatively large sheets of metal that are just atoms thick, enabling them to more readily study the weird properties of these ...

A metal sheet with your design marked out. A pillar drill. A range of files. Emery cloth. Hacksaw. ... unless you're using thin sheet metal to drill circular holes up to 30mm in diameter.

Metal sheets, ultra-thin feats: are China’s 2D metals the future of electronics? Chinese team hammers out atom-thin materials that may enable smaller, faster devices. Reading Time: 2 minutes.

According to a report in Nature(via Interesting Engineering), researchers from the Chinese Academy of Physics can create super-thin sheets, just one or two atoms thick, out of materials including ...