Mechanical properties: Overcoming old barriers

G. J. Ackland

doi:10.1038/nmat3423

Mechanical properties: Overcoming old barriers

G. J. Ackland^*

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School of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	837-838
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature Materials
Volume	11
Issue number	10
Early online date	24 Sep 2012
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3423
Publication status	Published - Oct 2012

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