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Nature 391, 637-638 (12 February 1998) | doi:10.1038/35500

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Computational science:  Unlocking dislocation secrets

Michael Marder1

In the paper by Bulatov et al. on page 669 of this issue1, five authors have joined forces across disciplines to study how collaboration of atoms results in change on large scales. They investigate the appearance of a barrier to plastic flow in a crystal, and then the destruction of the barrier.

  1. Michael Marder is in the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and the Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
    e-mail: Email: marder@chaos.ph.utexas.edu