Aluminum is nice and light, but as an easily crushable soft drink can shows, that comes at the cost of strength. By introducing faults into the metal's crystalline structure, researchers at Purdue ...

In graphite, the bulk material most closely related to graphene, basal-plane dislocations have been well known since the early 1960s 15. The dissociation of perfect basal-plane dislocations into pairs ...

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a crystalline material utilized to develop a wide array of electronic devices, including transistors and other high-power, high-frequency, and high-temperature devices. As ...