In the quest to optimize the efficiency of materials, attention is increasingly focused from the nanoscale to understanding how microscale defects, such as stacking faults and dislocations, affect the ...

Researchers recently discovered a helicoidal-shaped defect in layered polymers, uncovering how solvents can diffuse through layers and produce color changes. Dr. Edwin L. Thomas, professor in the ...

where b is the Burgers vector and D is the inter-dislocation spacing. · For the tilt boundary shown, the dislocations are straight edge type. For a pure twist boundary, an array of screw dislocations ...

Jogs and kinks are atomic scale changes in direction of a dislocation line. Jogs are out of the slip plane and kinks lie in the dislocations slip plane. For the edge dislocation shown, the jogs are of ...