Masaru Rao

UC Riverside

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Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside

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The ceramic material now used for dental crowns and hip implants can be made transparent. That's according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside .

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The ceramic material now used for dental crowns and hip implants can be made transparent. That's according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside .

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