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Roughness in flatland

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Energy-favoured grain rotation in nanocrystalline metals is shown to cause surface roughness at the atomic scale, providing fundamental insight for grain boundary engineering in materials design.

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Figure 1: Schematic of a valley and a ridge formed at a low-angle grain boundary.

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Schiøtz, J., Jacobsen, K. Roughness in flatland. Nature Mater 16, 1059–1060 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat5015

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