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A defect determines strength

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When you start tearing a piece of aluminium foil apart, you create dislocations in the material. Suhas Eswarappa Prameela and Tim Weihs recount the story of the Burgers vector that is now an indispensable tool for describing dislocations.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Suhas Eswarappa Prameela & Timothy P. Weihs

  2. Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Suhas Eswarappa Prameela & Timothy P. Weihs

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Eswarappa Prameela, S., Weihs, T.P. A defect determines strength. Nat. Phys. 16, 816 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0961-2

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