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Snapshots of the manipulation of a Ag NP by using an AFM tip, and the corresponding force curve. The black solid arrow in image (a) indicates the tip movement direction and the dashed arrow shows the tip oscillation direction. The small blue arrows indicate NP displacement directions (b, c, d, e).
