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Re:Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use by cthalupa on Monday December 15, 2014 @08:41PM (#8755501)
Damascus steel has not been completely successfully reproduced to this day, though we're probably 95% of the way there.

Though, it's not exactly a field with hordes of scientists looking to reproduce it.

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Re:Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible to Use by wyager on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:30PM (#8755857)
>Damascus steel has not been completely successfully reproduced to this day

Because it sucks compared to modern knife steels. VG-10, S30V, or any other high-end steel beats the hell out of Damascus/wootz steel.

If there were any serious benefit to Damascus steel, we would have certainly reverse-engineered it by now.

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