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| | Crystal Surfaces |
 | | Anisotropy plays an important role in the dynamics of crystal surfaces and interfaces, and hence in many materials processes, from surface stability and relaxation, to grain growth and sintering, and phase transformations. |
 | | In the case of surfaces it is possible to watch the evolution of steps, for example using an STM, which mediate the evolution of surface structure and hence to build continuum models from the atoms up. |
 | | There has also been, largely independently, much progress in mathematical modeling of interface dynamics mathematicians, physicists, materials scientists and engineers who are studying the dynamics of crystal surfaces and interfaces, with a particular view to the inclusion of materials' anisotropy. |
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