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Overcoming old barriers

Nature Materials volume 11, pages 837–838 (2012)Cite this article

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Dislocation motion is crucial to the deformation of materials. The discovery that at least at lower temperatures quantum effects play an important role in this process considerably improves quantitative predictions of mechanical properties.

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Figure 1: Overcoming activation barriers.

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  1. G. J. Ackland is at the University of Edinburgh, School of Physics and Astronomy, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK,

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Ackland, G. Overcoming old barriers. Nature Mater 11, 837–838 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3423

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