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Nature Materials 5, 7 - 8 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nmat1552

Metallic glasses: Must shear bands be hot?

Frans Spaepen1

  1. Frans Spaepen is at the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. e-mail: spaepen@deas.harvard.edu


Knowing the temperature rise in shear bands with high spatial and temporal resolution is important for the development of materials with improved mechanical properties.

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