Scars on a colloidal crystal ball
Colloidal crystals assembled on the surface of a spherical water droplet contain 'scars', a macroscopic equivalent of conventional grain boundaries. Direct observation of these grain-boundary scars provides a new way of studying dislocation dynamics
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Nature materials 2005-05, Vol.4 (5), p.360-361 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Colloidal crystals assembled on the surface of a spherical water droplet contain 'scars', a macroscopic equivalent of conventional grain boundaries. Direct observation of these grain-boundary scars provides a new way of studying dislocation dynamics |
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| ISSN: | 1476-1122 1476-4660 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/nmat1379 |