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Science 12 May 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5775, pp. 864 - 865
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125799
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Collective Defect Behavior Under Stress

Ladislas Kubin

Crystals contain defects that determine how the material responds to deformation. An x-ray diffraction method reveals the dynamic behavior of these defects as the material is stressed.

The author is at the Laboratoire d'Étude des Microstructures, CNRS-ONERA, 92322 Châtillon Cedex, France. E-mail: kubin{at}onera.fr

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Dislocation Mean Free Paths and Strain Hardening of Crystals.
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