Natural strategies for creating non-equilibrium morphology with self-repairing capability towards rapid growth of excellent YBaCuO crystals.

Self-repair, as a natural phenomenon, has been vastly observed and investigated in a variety of fields. With such an ability, living species self-heal their wounds to restore physiological functions while non-biological materials return to their original states, for example, thin surface layer growth occurs in the regeneration of incomplete KHPO crystals. Here, two seeding strategies are developed for creating incomplete crystallographic shapes (i.