Battery dendrites (IMAGE)
Caption
Researchers used a new visual technique to measure stress in a material as a dendrite crack grows. Here, the four graphs have the same data with different color schemes. Brighter colors correspond to higher stress, and a bowtie-shaped pattern can be seen at the crack tip.
Credit
Courtesy of Cole Fincher and Yet-Ming Chiang
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