Materials research with antiparticles: Unravelling the secret of nanocrystalline materials
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 05:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Certain structural defects in materials are what make innovative nanocrystalline bulk metals very hard and yet readily malleable. As these defects are found at the atomic level of the metal structure they are difficult to investigate in experiments. However, Austrian scientists have recently taken a significant step towards understanding such atomic defects. They succeeded in doing so by combining two special methods in a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund. The results have now been published in the renowned scientific journal Physical Review Letters.