Royal Society of Chemistry, Nanoscale Advances, 3(3), p. 675-681, 2021
DOI: 10.1039/d0na00895h
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We describe the degradation mechanism in a metallic nanowire network subjected to electrical stress. The nanowire network degradation is ascribed, at a very local scale, to hot-spot formation and the subsequent propagation of a spatially correlated disruptive crack.