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Deformation of the ultra-strong

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In situ electron microscopy observations of the extrusion of single nanocrystals from graphitic cages show that these crystals deform near their theoretical strength limits. The question is how this happens.

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Figure 1: Crystal plasticity.

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  1. Subra Suresh is in the School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. ssuresh@mit.edu,

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  2. Ju Li is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. liju@seas.upenn.edu,

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