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Nature Materials 4, 360 - 361 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nmat1379
Dislocation dynamics: Scars on a colloidal crystal ball
Xinsheng Sean Ling1
- Xinsheng Sean Ling is at the Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA. e-mail: ling@physics.brown.edu
Abstract
Colloidal crystals assembled on the surface of a spherical water droplet contain 'scars', a macroscopic equivalent of conventional grain boundaries. Direct observation of these grain-boundary scars provides a new way of studying dislocation dynamics
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