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Starting and stopping dislocations

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A comparison of dislocation dynamics in two hexagonal close-packed metals has revealed that dislocation movement can vary substantially in materials with the same crystal structure, associated with how the dislocations relax when stationary.

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Figure 1: Schematic of dislocation motion in Zr and Ti.

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  1. Andrew M. Minor is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA, and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA,

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Minor, A. Starting and stopping dislocations. Nature Mater 14, 866–867 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4354

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