ReviewNature reviews. Chemistry2025
Self-healing crystals.
Review in Nature reviews. Chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Crack-localization in elastomeric self-healing enabled by one supermolecule-analogous molecule.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Perovskite Solar Cells for Extreme Environments: Tailoring Material Design and Exploring New Opportunities.Nano-micro letters · 2026Review
- De Rerum Natura: How Do Halide Perovskites Self-Heal From Damage?Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
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- Fast self-healing in a layered molecular crystal mediated by stress-induced symmetry breaking.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Cryogenically self-healing organic crystals.Nature materials · 2026Article
- Healing crystals without heat.Nature materials · 2026Article
- Atomistic understanding of self-healing of a ferroelastic crystal.Chemical science · 2026Article
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Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Self-healing is an intrinsically exciting concept as it applies to the process of recovery, a commonplace phenomenon found in living organisms. Self-healing of artificial materials is as beneficial to living creatures as it is to materials science, wherein the effect can considerably prolong lifetimes. Although self-healing sodium chloride crystals were discovered in the 1980s, the field entered a renaissance when healing was observed in the emerging materials class of molecular crystals in 2016. Self-healing properties in polymers, cementitious materials, and coatings have already found commercial applications. The reinvigorated interest in self-healing molecular crystals stems from their prospects as durable, lightweight and flexible emissive or electronic materials. Ideally being defectless and ordered media, organic crystals have unique optical, mechanical and electrical properties, and the possibility of self-healing substantially increases their viability for smart devices.
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Registered trials
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