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Nature Materials 4, 577 - 578 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nmat1446
Nanomechanics: A new picture of plasticity
William Gerberich1 & William Mook1
- William Gerberich AND William Mook are at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, 151 Amundson Hall, 421 Washington Ave SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA. e-mail: wgerb@umn.edu
Abstract
The dislocation mechanisms involved in nanoscale deformation have so far been largely studied theoretically from atomistic simulations. High-temperature nanoindentation measurements provide a new quantitative experimental method of studying the onset of nanoscale plasticity.
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