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Uncovering the tiny defects that make materials fail

29 Nov 2022

When a material fails, it can have devastating consequences – making bridges collapse or pipelines explode. Tomas Martin and Stacy Moore describe how innovative and complementary microscopy and spectroscopy techniques can reveal the underlying atomic-scale mechanisms behind a material’s degradation

Materials make up the world around us. They are everywhere, from the wood, plastics and ceramics in

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Tomas Martin is a senior lecturer in materials physics and Stacy Moore is an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow in the School of Physics at the University of Bristol, UK. e-mail tomas.martin@bristol.ac.uk and stacy.moore@bristol.ac.uk
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