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That interlayer doubles or even quadruples resistance to delamination.
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New Atlas, 23 Feb. 2026
Looking at technical bulletins some of these screens had issues with bubbles and delamination and that could be the issue.
—Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2026
Breaking the delamination barrier In earlier work, Kota’s group addressed this by adding microprotrusions, tiny pillars between 10 and 100 microns wide, before applying the spray coating.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Feb. 2026
Those delaminations deteriorated between dive 80 and dive 88, its final dive, resulting in a local buckling failure that led to the implosion.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
The investigation found that the bang was a result of delamination between the layers of the material that made up the pressure hull.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Carbon fiber has not been used on this type of deep-diving sub before and is considered to be unreliable under pressure due to delamination.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2025
It has since been determined this was likely delamination of the carbon fiber (separation of its layers), which significantly weakened the hull.
—Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 11 June 2025
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New Atlas, 23 Feb. 2026
Looking at technical bulletins some of these screens had issues with bubbles and delamination and that could be the issue.
—Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2026
Breaking the delamination barrier In earlier work, Kota’s group addressed this by adding microprotrusions, tiny pillars between 10 and 100 microns wide, before applying the spray coating.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Feb. 2026
Those delaminations deteriorated between dive 80 and dive 88, its final dive, resulting in a local buckling failure that led to the implosion.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
The investigation found that the bang was a result of delamination between the layers of the material that made up the pressure hull.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Carbon fiber has not been used on this type of deep-diving sub before and is considered to be unreliable under pressure due to delamination.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2025
It has since been determined this was likely delamination of the carbon fiber (separation of its layers), which significantly weakened the hull.
—Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 11 June 2025
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“Delamination.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delamination. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
Copy CitationMedical Definition
delamination
noun
de·lam·i·na·tion
(ˌ)dē-ˌlam-ə-ˈnā-shən 
1
: separation into constituent layers
2
: gastrulation in which the endoderm is split off as a layer from the inner surface of the blastoderm and the archenteron is represented by the space between this endoderm and the yolk mass
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