Ripplocation in Bulk Materials (IMAGE)

Drexel University

Ripplocation in Bulk Materials

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Drexel University researchers have demonstrated how a newly discovered mechanism called "ripplocation" -- the buckling of a material's atomic layers -- occurs during deformation in bulk layered materials.

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