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SUBMITTER: Kovalenko O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5566342 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kovalenko Oleg O Brandl Christian C Klinger Leonid L Rabkin Eugen E
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 20170707 8
Some metal alloys subjected to irreversible plastic deformation can repair the inflicted damage and/or recover their original shape upon heating. The conventional shape memory effect in metallic alloys relies on collective, or "military" phase transformations. This work demonstrates a new and fundamentally different type of self-healing and shape memory in single crystalline faceted nano and microparticles of pure gold, which are plastically deformed with an atomic force microscope tip. It is sh ...[more]