Titanium dioxide
Titanium dioxide (), has been shown to have increased hardness and ductility at the nanoscale. In an experiment, grains of titanium dioxide that had an average size of 12 nanometers were compressed at 1.4 GPa and sintered at 200 °C. The result was a grain hardness of about 2.2 times greater than that of grains of titanium dioxide with an average size of 1.3 micrometers at the same temperature and pressure. In the same experiment, the ductility of titanium dioxide was measured. The strain rate sensitivity of a 250 nanometer grain of titanium dioxide was about 0.0175, while a grain with size of about 20 nanometers had a strain rate sensitivity of approximately .037; a significant increase.