Fusion Healing (IMAGE)

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Fusion Healing

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Green marks the spot where a fissure formed, then fused back together in this artistic rendering of nanoscale self-healing in metal, discovered at Sandia National Laboratories. Red arrows indicate the direction of the pulling force that unexpectedly triggered the phenomenon.

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Dan Thompson, Sandia National Laboratories

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