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Brown University

Atomic Strength

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A material science team led by Brown University engineers has found that the deformation of nanotwinned metals is characterized by the motion of highly ordered, necklace-like patterns of crystal defects called dislocations.

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Huajian Gao and Xiaoyan Li, Brown University

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