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...material.
The model could especially useful in nanotechnology. "As devices get smaller and smaller, understanding the phenomena of defect nucleation and growth becomes more and more important," says Subra Suresh, head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE). seemingly minuscule dislocation-a local disorder in the arrangement of atoms inside a material-or a crack can drastically compromise the performance of a device.
"There...
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