Nanocrystals Get Twins
(1)Materials Research Department, Risø National
Laboratory, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
(2) Center for Atomic Scale Materials Physics (CAMP) and
Department of Physics, Building 307, Technical University of Denmark,
DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract
In their Perspective, Bilde-Sørensen and Schiøtz highlight the
report by Chen et al., whose experimental study on the deformation
behavior of nanocrystalline aluminum corroborates recent
simulations. The study illustrates how the combination of computer
simulations and experiment can yield important advances in
understanding the atomic-scale properties of materials. As the scale
and accuracy of simulations increase, they will be increasingly used
to test new materials in "virtual laboratories."
This Perspective was published in
Science 300,
pp. 1244-1245 (23 May 2003).
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Last modified: 25 July 2003.
Jakob Schiøtz,
schiotz@fysik.dtu.dk