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autonomous self-healing in silver

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Fig. (A) An artistic poster depicting the autonomous self-healing phenomenon found in nanoscale Ag. (B, C) Sequential high-resolution TEM images showing the autonomous self-healing processes of a nanocrack (B) and nanopore (C) damage, respectively. (D) High-angle annular dark field (HAADF) images and the corresponding geometric phase analysis (GPA) of an overall self-healing process of nanopore. (E) Three runs of repeated reversible forming/healing cycles over the same region.

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