Two new studies from the Indian Institute of Bombay (IIT Bombay), Mumbai, show the importance of defects in the arrangement of atoms in a crystal, called dislocations, in shaping the physical properties of metallic alloys.

Madhushri Mudke

Madhushri Mudke is a Ph.D scholar at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) and a Zoological Society of London’s EDGE fellow. She loves to write on vivid topics like wildlife, feminism and health. Find her on social media @girlgonebirdzz.

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