Body-centred cubic (bcc) metals exhibit a distinct plastic response arising from the motion and interaction of dislocations, line defects whose behaviour departs markedly from that in close-packed ...

Mechanical structures are only as sound as the materials from which they are made. For decades researchers have studied materials from these structures to see why and how they fail. Before ...

For nearly a century, scientists have understood how crystalline materials—such as metals and semiconductors—bend without breaking. Their secret lies in tiny, line-like defects called dislocations, ...

Engineers have transformed a notoriously brittle cobalt-aluminum compound into a material that is both extremely strong and capable of bending without breaking. Their nanoscale design produced a yield ...

In the final sections, we examine how GE Aerospace provides public-market exposure to the broader commercialization of ...

For decades researchers have studied materials from structures to see why and how they fail. Before catastrophic failure, there are individual cracks or dislocations that form, which are signals that ...