Mechanical strain illustration (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter

Mechanical strain illustration

Caption

Mechanical strain can deform a solid at the atomic level, forming a chiral structure. 

Credit

© Jörg Harms, Zhiyang Zeng (MPSD)

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