An airplane’s engines draw sand from a runway. Image courtesy of the Department of Defense.

On left above, conventional ceramic coating destroyed by molten glass. On the right, ceramic coating designed to resist molten glass (which is in a thin layer on top). The field of view of both images is about half a millimeter. Both images by Aysegul Aygun and Nitin Padture, courtesy of Ohio State University.

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