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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Materials Science and Technology Division, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA

    George M. Pharr

  2. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40506, USA

    Yang-Tse Cheng

  3. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, CB2 1RX

    Ian M. Hutchings

  4. Department of Materials Science, Toyohashi University of Technology, Tempaku-cho, Toyohashi, 441-8580, Japan

    Mototsugu Sakai

  5. Department of Hydrogen and Metallurgical Science, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, 94550, USA

    Neville R. Moody

  6. International Advanced Research Center for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad-, 500005, India

    G. Sundararajan

  7. Biomaterials Science Research Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Sydney, Eveleigh, NSW, 1430, Australia

    Michael V. Swain

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Pharr, G.M., Cheng, YT., Hutchings, I.M. et al. Introduction. Journal of Materials Research 24, 579–580 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2009.0146

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