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Stresses come to light

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Confocal microscopy and computational analysis, now used for measuring microscale stresses in colloidal crystals, could be developed for investigation of amorphous materials, crystal melting, and mechanical properties of tissues.

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Figure 1: Defects that can influence the mechanical properties of the material.

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  1. and in the Physics Department, Mark Bowick is at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1130, USA,

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  2. Department of Physics, Paul Chaikin is at the Center for Soft Matter Research, New York University, New York 13244-1130, USA,

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