Itamar Kolvin

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Itamar Kolvin received his Ph.D. in physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, where he studied the fracture of hydrogels. Currently, he is a Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Itamar is interested in phenomena that lie at the interface of elasticity, hydrodynamics, and soft materials.


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Atomic Imaging of Cracks

Using scanning transmission electron microscopy, researchers watch a 2D crystal break apart one atomic bond at a time. Read More »