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Nature Materials 4, 577 - 578 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nmat1446

Nanomechanics: A new picture of plasticity

William Gerberich1 & William Mook1

  1. 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


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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