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Isolation leads to change

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Nanoindentation experiments and atomistic modelling show that the nanoscale plasticity of silicon changes when the material is no longer connected to the bulk.

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Figure 1: The plastic behaviour of equivalent small volumes of silicon depends on their surroundings.

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  1. Graham L. W. Cross is in the School of Physics and Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN), Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland,

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