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Atomistic mechanisms of cyclic hardening in metallic glass
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This materials science paper investigated atomic-level mechanisms by which metallic glass strengthens under cyclic mechanical loading, using computer simulations to study how structural changes accumulate. This is a condensed matter physics study with no relevance to environmental microplastics.
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