It will be at least a year before the Navy finishes testing superhard steel on its Seahawk engines.

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Critics like Anthony DeArdo , a materials science professor at the University of Pittsburgh, dismiss superhard steel as impractical.

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Nanosteel Co. plans to outsource superhard steel's manufacturing and coating process.

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Put to the test last year, the superhard coating was applied to plates on a 20-ton mining rock-crusher and reduced jagged boulders to pebbles for 48 hours before wearing out.

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