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Hydrogen embrittlement

One dislocation at a time

Nature Materials volume 22, pages 679–680 (2023)Cite this article

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The direct observation of enhanced dislocation mobility in iron by in situ electron microscopy offers key insights and adds to the ongoing debate on the mechanisms of hydrogen embrittlement.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of dislocation motion in a crystal.

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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA

    Vasily Bulatov

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Wei Cai

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