Crack propagation in materials is rarely welcome. But carefully engineered cracks produced during the deposition of a film on silicon can be used to efficiently create pre-designed patterns of nanometre-scale channels. See Letter p.221
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Pons, A. Cracks tamed. Nature 485, 177–178 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/485177a
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