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Switching moiré magnets Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Nature Communications reports the identification of two non-volatile spin textures in twisted double-bilayer CrI3, which can be switched by a magnetic field and read out via electrical measurements.
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Moiré materials under strain Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Giulia Pacchioni
A paper in the Journal of Applied Physics reports a way to apply strain to two-dimensional devices while measuring simultaneously their electrical and optical properties.
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A new twist on spin–orbit torques Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Advanced Materials shows that the moiré superlattice in a ferromagnetic heterostructure comprising a twisted WS2/WS2 bilayer enhances the spin–orbit torque efficiency and increases its gate tunability.
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Precision drug delivery to the central nervous system using engineered nanoparticles Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Jingjing Gao, Ziting (Judy) Xia, Swetharajan Gunasekar, Christopher Jiang, Jeffrey M. Karp, Nitin Joshi
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Materials challenges on the path to gigatonne CO2 electrolysis Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Blanca Belsa, Lu Xia, Viktoria Golovanova, Bárbara Polesso, Adrián Pinilla-Sánchez, Lara San Martín, Jiaye Ye, Cao-Thang Dinh, F. Pelayo García de Arquer
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The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Long Ju, Allan H. MacDonald, Kin Fai Mak, Jie Shan, Xiaodong Xu
More than 40 years after the discovery of the quantum Hall effect, the investigation of new variants of this phenomenon and of the exotic physics they represent is still a lively research topic. In this Viewpoint, five scientists involved in the very recent discovery of a new type of Hall effect — the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect — discuss their results and their implications.
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Wound management materials and technologies from bench to bedside and beyond Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Canran Wang, Ehsan Shirzaei Sani, Chia-Ding Shih, Chwee Teck Lim, Joseph Wang, David G. Armstrong, Wei Gao
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Advanced material technologies for space and terrestrial medicine Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Corrine Ying Xuan Chua, Miguel Jimenez, Maedeh Mozneb, Giovanni Traverso, Ray Lugo, Arun Sharma, Clive N. Svendsen, William R. Wagner, Robert Langer, Alessandro Grattoni
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A microscopic perspective on moiré materials Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Kevin P. Nuckolls, Ali Yazdani
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Towards edible robots and robotic food Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Dario Floreano, Bokeon Kwak, Markéta Pankhurst, Jun Shintake, Mario Caironi, Valerio F. Annese, Qiukai Qi, Jonathan Rossiter, Remko M. Boom
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Engineering nanomaterials for glioblastoma nanovaccination Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Fatima Hameedat, Bárbara B. Mendes, João Conniot, Leonardo D. Di Filippo, Marlus Chorilli, Avi Schroeder, João Conde, Flávia Sousa
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Making electronic circuits with hydrogels Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Charlotte Allard
An article in Science presents the design of a hydrogel with n-type semiconducting properties.
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Rapid advances enabling high-performance inverted perovskite solar cells Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Qi Jiang, Kai Zhu
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Using oxides to compute with heat Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Guillaume F. Nataf, Sebastian Volz, Jose Ordonez-Miranda, Jorge Íñiguez-González, Riccardo Rurali, Brahim Dkhil
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Liquid-metal-based magnetic fluids Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Wentao Xiang, Yongyu Lu, Hongzhang Wang, Xuyang Sun, Sen Chen, Zhizhu He, Jing Liu
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AV3Sb5 kagome superconductors Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Stephen D. Wilson, Brenden R. Ortiz
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High-throughput characterization is key to report reliable organic thin-film transistor performance Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Joseph Manion, Benoît H. Lessard
Developing circuits for flexible and stretchable devices demands not only high performance but also reliable and predictable components, such as organic thin-film transistors. High-throughput characterization is required to build reliable structure–property relationships, which are critical for the commercialization of new materials.
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Design principles for strong and tough hydrogels Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Xueyu Li, Jian Ping Gong
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Nonlinear and quantum photonics using integrated optical materials Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Avik Dutt, Aseema Mohanty, Alexander L. Gaeta, Michal Lipson
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Bridging materials innovations to sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting devices Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Yang Zhong, Lenan Zhang, Xiangyu Li, Bachir El Fil, Carlos D. Díaz-Marín, Adela Chenyang Li, Xinyue Liu, Alina LaPotin, Evelyn N. Wang
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Tunable moiré materials for probing Berry physics and topology Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Pratap Chandra Adak, Subhajit Sinha, Amit Agarwal, Mandar M. Deshmukh
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Empowering disabled scientists through mentorship Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Alyssa T. Paparella
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Unlocking the potential of ultrahigh-Ni cathodes via epitaxial entropy-assisted coating Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Chenyu Wang
An article in Nature Energy reports an epitaxial entropy-assisted oxide coating strategy to suppress the propagation of structural fatigue in ultrahigh-Ni cathodes while maintaining desired ion transport capacity.
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A circular economy for sulfur-rich polymers Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Ariane Vartanian
An article in Nature Communications describes a straightforward strategy to synthesize chemically recyclable polytrithiocarbonates with diverse structures.
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Nanoscale integration for environment-resistant flexible conductors Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Charlotte Allard
An article in Nature Communications presents a method for the nanoscale integration of metal atoms with elastomeric chains, leading to stretchable conductors that are environmentally resilient.
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Leveraging next-generation materials for cancer neuroscience therapies in the central nervous system Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Joshua D. Bernstock, Benjamin R. Johnston, Gregory K. Friedman, E. A. Chiocca, Robert Langer, Shriya S. Srinivasan
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2D materials for durable and sustainable electric vehicles Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Diana Berman, Leonardo Israel Farfan-Cabrera, Andreas Rosenkranz, Ali Erdemir
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Solution-processed memristors: performance and reliability Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Sebastian Pazos, Xiangming Xu, Tianchao Guo, Kaichen Zhu, Husam N. Alshareef, Mario Lanza
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Engineering interlayer hybridization in van der Waals bilayers Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Elyse Barré, Medha Dandu, Sudipta Kundu, Aditya Sood, Felipe H. da Jornada, Archana Raja
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Hybrid perovskites unlocking the development of light-emitting solar cells Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Ming Luo, Alexey Tarasov, Hong Zhang, Junhao Chu
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Protein materials, by blueprint Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Ariane Vartanian
An article in Nature describes regular, modular protein building blocks that can be combined — following a standard blueprint — into a variety of architectures.
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External-pressure–electrochemistry coupling in solid-state lithium metal batteries Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Xia Hu, Zhijia Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Yao Wang, Xu Yang, Xia Wang, Miryam Fayena-Greenstein, Hadas Alon Yehezkel, Steven Langford, Dong Zhou, Baohua Li, Guoxiu Wang, Doron Aurbach
Solid-state lithium metal batteries (SSLBs) using inorganic solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) have attracted extensive scientific and commercial interest owing to their potential to provide higher energy density and safety than conventional Li-ion batteries. These batteries are subject to external pressure during both their manufacturing processes (fabrication pressure) and their operation (stack pressure)
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Chemotherapy delivery activated by radiation Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Charlotte Allard
An article in Advanced Materials presents a drug delivery platform for cancer chemotherapy that is activated by radiation.
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Thermoelectric copper selenide gets a boost Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Nature Materials reports the use of a co-doping strategy to produce a Cu2Se-based superionic material that has a figure of merit of 3 at 1,050 K, an efficiency of over 13% when integrated into a thermoelectric module and good operational stability.
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Materials research will be central to India’s technology missions, but a culture shift is needed Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Arindam Ghosh, A. K. Sood
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Design and microstructuring of materials to boost spacecraft ion propulsion Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Paulo C. Lozano
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Cost and performance analysis as a valuable tool for battery material research Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Alessandro Innocenti, Simon Beringer, Stefano Passerini
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High-entropy materials for energy and electronic applications Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Simon Schweidler, Miriam Botros, Florian Strauss, Qingsong Wang, Yanjiao Ma, Leonardo Velasco, Gabriel Cadilha Marques, Abhishek Sarkar, Christian Kübel, Horst Hahn, Jasmin Aghassi-Hagmann, Torsten Brezesinski, Ben Breitung
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In vivo biomolecule corona and the transformation of a foe into an ally for nanomedicine Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Marilena Hadjidemetriou, Morteza Mahmoudi, Kostas Kostarelos
Nanoparticles (NPs) administered in the human body will undergo rapid surface modification upon contact with biological fluids driven by their interfacial interaction with a diverse range of biomolecules. Such spontaneous self-assembly and adsorption of proteins and other biomolecules onto the NP surface constitute what is commonly known as the protein or biomolecule corona. This surface biotransformation
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Designing organic mixed conductors for electrochemical transistor applications Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Yazhou Wang, Shofarul Wustoni, Jokubas Surgailis, Yizhou Zhong, Anil Koklu, Sahika Inal
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Starch superstructures Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Charlotte Allard
An article in Science Advances presents a method to create starch superstructures to potentially improve food supply.
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Beef paddies Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Ariane Vartanian
An article in Matter uses rice grains as scaffolds for cultivated beef cells to produce an innovative beef-infused rice.
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Flat bands, strange metals and the Kondo effect Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Joseph G. Checkelsky, B. Andrei Bernevig, Piers Coleman, Qimiao Si, Silke Paschen
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The potential and challenges of off-grid solar photovoltaics in resource-challenged settings: the case of sub-Saharan Africa Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Priti Parikh, Ryan Wang, Jing Meng
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Living in a material world Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Giulia Pacchioni
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future Ed ConwayWH Allen (2023), 512 pp, £22 Page after page, we travel down the deepest mines on the planet, to the Taiwan plant that makes the chips that power our smartphones, and to the Tesla Gigafactory that makes the batteries that keep electric cars going round. We peek into an oil refinery and a battery recycling plant. Conway captures the
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Vapour-deposited perovskite light-emitting diodes Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jiajun Luo, Jinghui Li, Luke Grater, Runda Guo, Abd. Rashid bin Mohd Yusoff, Edward Sargent, Jiang Tang
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Shaping the ethical, sustainable and policy-driven future of space exploration Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Martin Elvis, Moriba Jah, Erika Nesvold, Kazuto Suzuki
Current interest in furthering space exploration is undoubtedly relevant to materials science research. However, as we stand on the brink of a revolution, it is imperative to establish robust frameworks to foster sustainable growth. In this Viewpoint, experts in space policy, environmental stewardship and ethics reflect on issues from space debris management to international collaboration and exploitation
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Materials consideration for the design, fabrication and operation of microscale robots Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Chuanrui Chen, Shichao Ding, Joseph Wang
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Non-classical crystallization in soft and organic materials Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jingshan S. Du, Yuna Bae, James J. De Yoreo
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Towards glycan foldamers and programmable assemblies Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Surusch Djalali, Nishu Yadav, Martina Delbianco
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Sustainable moisture energy Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Jiaxing Xu, Pengfei Wang, Zhaoyuan Bai, Huhu Cheng, Ruzhu Wang, Liangti Qu, Tingxian Li
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Perovskite–organic tandem solar cells Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Kai O. Brinkmann, Pang Wang, Felix Lang, Wei Li, Xiao Guo, Florian Zimmermann, Selina Olthof, Dieter Neher, Yi Hou, Martin Stolterfoht, Tao Wang, Aleksandra B. Djurišić, Thomas Riedl
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Inside a materials science podcast Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Giulia Pacchioni
Materialism, a podcast exploring the past, present and future of materials science, is turning five. Co-founders and co-hosts Taylor Sparks (a professor at the University of Utah) and Andrew Falkowski (a PhD student in Sparks’ group) discuss how they use storytelling to create compelling episodes and share their journey and lessons learned.
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Adaptable navigation of magnetic microrobots Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Charlotte Allard
An article in Nature Machine Intelligence presents an adaptable method to control magnetic microrobots’ navigation using reinforcement learning.
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Soft sensing and haptics for medical procedures Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Arincheyan Gerald, Sheila Russo
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How biofabrication can accelerate cultured meat’s path to market Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Simon Heine, Tilman Ahlfeld, Franziska B. Albrecht, Michael Gelinsky, Petra J. Kluger
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Co-catalytic metal–support interactions in single-atom electrocatalysts Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Lucy Gloag, Samuel V. Somerville, J. Justin Gooding, Richard D. Tilley
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Breaking the limitation of van der Waals integration Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Chenyu Wang
An article in Nature Electronics introduces a single-step platform for integrating 2D materials into functional devices, addressing a fundamental constraint in van der Waals integration.
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Diabetic wound dressings Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Ariane Vartanian
An article in Advanced Healthcare Materials reports a 4D-printed hydrogel dressing that shrinks at body temperature and promotes healing in chronic diabetic wounds.
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Cosy like a polar bear Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 79.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Ariane Vartanian
An article in Science reports an exceptionally warm and thin sweater knitted from stretchy aerogel fibres, whose core–shell structures are inspired by the fur of polar bears.