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Antibody-conjugated species-sorted single-walled carbon nanotubes for multiplexed cytokine sensing. 用于多重细胞因子传感的抗体结合物种分类单壁碳纳米管。

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Communications Materials Pub Date : 2026-04-27 DOI: 10.1038/s43246-026-01169-y

Amelia K Ryan, Sadiyah Parveen, Zachary Cohen, Atara Israel, Ryan M Williams

{"title":"Antibody-conjugated species-sorted single-walled carbon nanotubes for multiplexed cytokine sensing.","authors":"Amelia K Ryan, Sadiyah Parveen, Zachary Cohen, Atara Israel, Ryan M Williams","doi":"10.1038/s43246-026-01169-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43246-026-01169-y","url":null,"abstract":"Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) are versatile building blocks for optical sensors. Their near infrared photoluminescent emission is determined by their chiral structure. Commercially available SWCNT are polydisperse, leading to spectral congestion and no ability single analyte sensing. Aqueous two-phase extraction (ATPE) is a technique to sort SWCNT structures for improved nanosensor performance and multiplexed sensing. To date, ATPE has not been demonstrated with bioconjugate-compatible surface chemistries. Here, we demonstrate improved and multiplexed cytokine sensing by ATPE sorting SWCNT species with amine-functionalized ssDNA. We show that this approach enables effective chirality sorting and direct antibody conjugations. We used sorted, functionalized SWCNT to simultaneously and specifically detect the inflammatory cytokines IL-12 and IL-6 with high sensitivity and selectivity, and improved robustness compared to unsorted SWCNT. We anticipate that such sensitive, multiplexed will be useful for implantable and bedside diagnostics of inflammatory processes while serving as a model for sensing other complex biological processes.","PeriodicalId":10589,"journal":{"name":"Communications Materials","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13221203/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148136763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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4D Printing of polyoxometalate hydrogels from centrifuged inks for semi-solid lubricants 多金属氧酸盐水凝胶的4D打印从离心油墨半固体润滑剂

Communications Materials Pub Date : 2026-01-12 DOI: 10.1038/s43246-026-01075-3

Bingxiu Xue, Yi Yang, Yujie Yang, Weiyan Yu, Yu Zhang, Jingcheng Hao, Lu Xu

{"title":"4D Printing of polyoxometalate hydrogels from centrifuged inks for semi-solid lubricants","authors":"Bingxiu Xue, Yi Yang, Yujie Yang, Weiyan Yu, Yu Zhang, Jingcheng Hao, Lu Xu","doi":"10.1038/s43246-026-01075-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-026-01075-3","url":null,"abstract":"Polyoxometalate hydrogels, normally fabricated by linking polyanionic polyoxometalate particles with cationic ligands or multivalent ions, have found widespread potential applications in materials science and technology. Nevertheless, the binding with ligands/ions may adversely affect the intrinsic properties of polyoxometalates. And the prospects of polyoxometalate hydrogels in 4D printing and tribological fields have hardly been explored. Here we show that polyoxometalate hydrogels with favorable viscoelasticity, shear thinning, thixotropy, and thermal responsiveness, thus being capable of constructing various complex 4D printing geometries with shape reconfigurability and lubricating different types of solid tribopairs, can be created solely from high-speed centrifugation of aqueous dispersions of hybrid polyoxometalate nanosheets. By effectively preserving the inherent tribochemical activity and physical lubrication of the polyoxometalate nanosheet gelator using this approach, the hydrogels can provide potent lubrication for contacting surfaces for at least 200000 consecutive reciprocating friction cycles, featuring a high suitability for practical tribological applications. Centrifugation of aqueous dispersions of hybrid polyoxometalate nanosheets is used to create inks for the 4D printing of polyoxometalate hydrogels, exhibiting complex geometries and shape reconfigurability.","PeriodicalId":10589,"journal":{"name":"Communications Materials","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-026-01075-3_reference.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147916015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How interfaces limit nanoscale stress concentrations and prevent catastrophic failure in single-asperity contacts. 界面如何限制纳米级应力集中并防止单粗糙接触的灾难性破坏。

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Communications Materials Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-30 DOI: 10.1038/s43246-026-01239-1

Michael Meindlhumer, Juraj Todt, Markus Alfreider, Asma Aicha Medjahed, Jakob Grau, Michal Zitek, Antje Dollmann, Fatih Uzun, Rostislav Daniel, Doris Steinmüller-Nethl, Hadwig Sternschulte, Manfred Burghammer, Petr Zeman, Verena Maier-Kiener, Alexander M Korsunsky, Jozef Keckes

{"title":"How interfaces limit nanoscale stress concentrations and prevent catastrophic failure in single-asperity contacts.","authors":"Michael Meindlhumer, Juraj Todt, Markus Alfreider, Asma Aicha Medjahed, Jakob Grau, Michal Zitek, Antje Dollmann, Fatih Uzun, Rostislav Daniel, Doris Steinmüller-Nethl, Hadwig Sternschulte, Manfred Burghammer, Petr Zeman, Verena Maier-Kiener, Alexander M Korsunsky, Jozef Keckes","doi":"10.1038/s43246-026-01239-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43246-026-01239-1","url":null,"abstract":"Contact between materials occurs through microscale asperities, where stress evolves under highly localized, multiaxial deformation. Despite the significant importance to numerous scientific fields, to date, direct experimental quantification of these stress fields across the materials in contact has remained elusive. Here, we combine in situ scanning synchrotron X-ray nanodiffraction with 80 nm spatial resolution and a custom indentation setup to resolve nanoscale stress fields developing at the contact between a diamond indenter and both single-layer ZrN and multilayered ZrN-ZrCu thin films. We introduce a nanomechanical probe comprising a single-crystalline diamond wedge coated with nanocrystalline diamond to simultaneously probe stress accumulation within the indenter. X-ray scattering and scanning electron microscopy, micromechanical testing, analytical and elastic-plastic finite element modeling corroborate the nanoscale stress maps obtained for both sides of the tip-surface contact region. The individual interfaces along the projected load paths diffuse stresses in both the tip and the multilayer, thereby controlling the overall mechanical response at the asperity. Consequently, the stored elastic energy is reduced by 30% in the multi-layered film in comparison with the monolithic ZrN. Finally, the measured nanoscale stress distributions elucidate the fundamental mechanisms by which artificial multi-layered materials effectively dissipate energy and prevent catastrophic failure.","PeriodicalId":10589,"journal":{"name":"Communications Materials","volume":"7 1","pages":"194"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13391362/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148577218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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High-performance ionomer-free gas diffusion cathodes with low Pt loading for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis. 质子交换膜水电解用低铂负载的高性能无离聚体气体扩散阴极。

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Communications Materials Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-21 DOI: 10.1038/s43246-026-01076-2

Mingliang Chen, Peter M Piechulla, Alexandros Mantzanas, Mena-Alexander Kräenbring, Fatih Özcan, Doris Segets, J Ruud van Ommen

{"title":"High-performance ionomer-free gas diffusion cathodes with low Pt loading for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis.","authors":"Mingliang Chen, Peter M Piechulla, Alexandros Mantzanas, Mena-Alexander Kräenbring, Fatih Özcan, Doris Segets, J Ruud van Ommen","doi":"10.1038/s43246-026-01076-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43246-026-01076-2","url":null,"abstract":"Platinum (Pt) is recognized as the most active material for the hydrogen evolution reaction in acidic media; however, its catalytic activity is often underestimated in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) due to poor utilization of the cathode catalyst layer. In this study, we present the synthesis, characterization, and application of Pt nanoparticles with atomic precision on a microporous-layer-coated gas diffusion layer for PEMWE. The Pt nanoparticles were synthesized via atomic layer deposition, a technique that enables precise control over loading and particle size at the atomic scale. The resulting gas diffusion electrode with an exceptionally low platinum loading (1.08-5.40 μg cm- 2) demonstrated mass activity at least one order of magnitude higher than that of benchmark Pt. Furthermore, the electrode exhibited exceptional stability at a current density of 1 A cm- 2 over 200 hours. It also showed robust performance under dynamic operation, enduring 25,000 cycles of alternating cell voltages between 1.45 V and 2 V.","PeriodicalId":10589,"journal":{"name":"Communications Materials","volume":"7 1","pages":"67"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12913019/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146225815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Intricacies of frustrated magnetism in the Kondo metal YbAgGe. 近藤金属YbAgGe受挫磁性的复杂性。

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Communications Materials Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-27 DOI: 10.1038/s43246-026-01230-w

D G Mazzone, C B Larsen, B Ueland, X Boraley, D M Pajerowski, Y Skourski, J Taylor, B Fåk, S L Bud'ko, R McQueeney, P C Canfield, O Zaharko

{"title":"Intricacies of frustrated magnetism in the Kondo metal YbAgGe.","authors":"D G Mazzone, C B Larsen, B Ueland, X Boraley, D M Pajerowski, Y Skourski, J Taylor, B Fåk, S L Bud'ko, R McQueeney, P C Canfield, O Zaharko","doi":"10.1038/s43246-026-01230-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-026-01230-w","url":null,"abstract":"The combination of localized magnetic moments, their frustration and interaction with itinerant electrons is a key challenge of condensed matter physics. Frustrated magnetic interactions promote degenerate ground states with enhanced fluctuations, a topic that is predominantly studied in magnetic insulators. The coupling between itinerant and localized electrons in metals add complexity to the problem, and is presently formulated only for extreme cases in which the itinerant electrons mediate exchange between localized spins (RKKY interaction) or suppress the formation of magnetic moments (Kondo screening). Here, we report an in-depth experimental study of the distorted Kagome metal YbAgGe, unravelling the open questions of how frustration, localized magnetism and itinerant electrons are intertwined in frustrated Kondo metals. We find that coupled itinerant and localized electrons give rise to dynamic magnetic correlations below T * ≈ 20 K. At lower temperature, frustrated magnetic interactions establish anisotropic magnetic short-range correlations that culminate into antiferromagnetic long-range order below T N = 0.68 K with a significantly reduced modulated magnetic moment. We show that local moment Hamiltonians can yield limited understanding of the microscopic behaviour in frustrated metals, and prompt the extension of more sophisticated model Hamiltonians incorporating itinerant effects.","PeriodicalId":10589,"journal":{"name":"Communications Materials","volume":"7 1","pages":"251"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13630540/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149105062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Chemical exfoliation of layered Al₅C₃N for the synthesis of AlN nanosheets. 层状Al5C3N的化学剥落制备AlN纳米片。

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Communications Materials Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-08 DOI: 10.1038/s43246-025-01019-3

Nima Amousa, Melina Poll, Louis Godeffroy, Pedro Berastegui, Norbert H Nickel, Namrata Sharma, Olivier Donzel-Gargand, Thomas Dittrich, Steffen Fengler, Sebastian Wintz, Tristan Petit, Ulf Jansson, Jesus Gonzalez-Julian

{"title":"Chemical exfoliation of layered Al5C3N for the synthesis of AlN nanosheets.","authors":"Nima Amousa, Melina Poll, Louis Godeffroy, Pedro Berastegui, Norbert H Nickel, Namrata Sharma, Olivier Donzel-Gargand, Thomas Dittrich, Steffen Fengler, Sebastian Wintz, Tristan Petit, Ulf Jansson, Jesus Gonzalez-Julian","doi":"10.1038/s43246-025-01019-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43246-025-01019-3","url":null,"abstract":"Two-dimensional (2D) aluminum nitride (AlN) represents a promising material with unique properties predicted by density functional theory (DFT), characterized by a honeycomb lattice where Al and N atoms exhibit threefold in-plane coordination. However, the synthesis of free-standing AlN nanosheets has been challenging due to the crystal configurations of the well-known bulk AlN, which presents a hexagonal wurtzite structure with a tetrahedral coordination, preventing its exfoliation to obtain nanosheets. Herein, we propose a facile method involving the preparation of layered-structured aluminum carbonitrides, Al5C3N, followed by exfoliation into AlN nanosheets, offering a potential route for producing 2D AlN. The Al5C3N precursor was chemically etched in hydrofluoric acid (HF), breaking the Al-C bonds and exposing the AlN nanosheets. The development of this synthesis method opens up opportunities towards the preparation of 2D AlN and the investigation of its unique properties for applications in sensors and microelectronics.","PeriodicalId":10589,"journal":{"name":"Communications Materials","volume":"7 1","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12764427/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145905742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Schottky-driven interfacial design of Bi₂MoO₆/Ti₃C₂T_x heterostructure for boosted piezocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Bi2MoO6/Ti3C2Tx异质结构的schottky驱动界面设计促进压催化析氢。

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Communications Materials Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.1038/s43246-026-01168-z

Rahil Changotra, Jie Yang, Mita Dasog, Quan Sophia He

{"title":"Schottky-driven interfacial design of Bi2MoO6/Ti3C2Tx heterostructure for boosted piezocatalytic hydrogen evolution.","authors":"Rahil Changotra, Jie Yang, Mita Dasog, Quan Sophia He","doi":"10.1038/s43246-026-01168-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43246-026-01168-z","url":null,"abstract":"Piezoelectric semiconductor catalysis is gaining attention as a strategy to convert mechanical energy into chemical energy for sustainable hydrogen production. Similar to photocatalysis, piezocatalysis involves the generation, separation, migration, and surface reaction of piezo-induced charge carriers. Here, we report the rational design of Bi2MoO6/Ti3C2Tx piezocatalysts synthesized via electrostatic self-assembly and evaluate their hydrogen evolution performance. The optimized heterostructure achieves a hydrogen evolution rate of 1.99 <math><mi>m</mi> <mi>m</mi> <mi>o</mi> <mi>l</mi> <msup><mrow><mi>g</mi></mrow> <mrow><mo>-</mo> <mn>1</mn></mrow> </msup> <msup><mrow><mi>h</mi></mrow> <mrow><mo>-</mo> <mn>1</mn></mrow> </msup> </math> , which is 2.75 and 5.78 times higher than pristine Bi2MoO6 and nanolayered Ti3C2Tx, respectively. Experimental characterization combined with density functional theory calculations demonstrates that the heterointerface facilitates rapid electron transfer and enhances the intrinsic piezoelectric response. Furthermore, the interface reduces the hydrogen adsorption energy barrier and improves Gibbs free energy for water splitting, leading to enhanced charge separation and suppressed carrier recombination. A Schottky junction-based mechanism is proposed to explain directional charge transport and surface redox reactions under mechanical stimulation, providing new design insights for high-efficiency piezocatalysts driven by low-intensity mechanical energy.","PeriodicalId":10589,"journal":{"name":"Communications Materials","volume":"7 1","pages":"181"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13357206/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148435444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ultrathin Sb₂S₃ solar cells processed by atomic-layer additive manufacturing. 原子层增材制造技术制备超薄Sb2S3太阳能电池。

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Communications Materials Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-10 DOI: 10.1038/s43246-026-01279-7

Micah Mc Naire, Sanja Pannen, Jonas Englhard, Pei-Chun Liao, Selina Kern, David Zanders, Anjana Devi, Ryan W Crisp, Julien Bachmann

{"title":"Ultrathin Sb2S3 solar cells processed by atomic-layer additive manufacturing.","authors":"Micah Mc Naire, Sanja Pannen, Jonas Englhard, Pei-Chun Liao, Selina Kern, David Zanders, Anjana Devi, Ryan W Crisp, Julien Bachmann","doi":"10.1038/s43246-026-01279-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43246-026-01279-7","url":null,"abstract":"The most conventional atomic layer processing method, atomic layer deposition (ALD), delivers ultrathin blanket coatings with sub-nanometer thickness precision. Lateral confinement underpins the direct atomic layer processing (DALP®) family of deposition techniques. ALD chemistry applied to DALP® is a 3D printing method called atomic-layer additive manufacturing (ALAM). Here, we demonstrate the applicability of ALAM to the additive buildup of the crucial ZnS / Sb2S3 / V2O5 semiconductor stack which constitutes an functional inorganic solar cell. To this goal, ALAM processes are first optimized and evaluated for the individual materials vanadium(V) oxide, zinc sulfide, and antimony(III) sulfide. We establish the layer-by-layer growth mode controlled by self-limiting surface chemistry and characterize the materials' structure and the smooth surface morphology of ALAM-coated areas. Finally, all three materials are 3D-printed in ALAM mode in combination with electrodes and the electron acceptor titania (TiO2) to form functional solar cells with a 120 nm thick Sb2S3 absorber layer. This novel fabrication of solar cells highlights the advantages of using direct patterning in the prototyping and optimization of photovoltaics in research and development.","PeriodicalId":10589,"journal":{"name":"Communications Materials","volume":"7 1","pages":"180"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13354539/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148419559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Insight into the Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier via three-dimensional atomic force microscopy mapping of surface potentials on Au (111). 通过三维原子力显微镜对Au表面电位的映射深入了解Ehrlich-Schwoebel势垒（111）。

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Communications Materials Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-31 DOI: 10.1038/s43246-025-01062-0

Bugrahan Guner, Mehmet Z Baykara, Omur E Dagdeviren

{"title":"Insight into the Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier via three-dimensional atomic force microscopy mapping of surface potentials on Au (111).","authors":"Bugrahan Guner, Mehmet Z Baykara, Omur E Dagdeviren","doi":"10.1038/s43246-025-01062-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43246-025-01062-0","url":null,"abstract":"Thin film growth is a critical process enabling modern applications ranging from electronic devices to advanced coatings. Among the parameters that govern thin film growth, the Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier stands out with its tight control over interlayer transfer and, consequently, kinetics-dominated film morphology. Despite its importance, the precise measurement of the Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier remains complicated, presenting a critical impediment to rational thin film design. Here, we provide an insight into the Ehrlich-Schwoebel barrier over monoatomic step edges on Au (111) surfaces via three-dimensional atomic force microscopy (3D-AFM) with sub-nanometer spatial precision, minimizing the need for empirical model assumptions or theoretical calculations. Our measurements provide a quantitative, real-space view of the complex potential energy and force landscape near step edges, verifying the presence of energy barriers and wells at the top and bottom of step edges, respectively. The effect of the herringbone reconstruction on the potential energy landscape is also analyzed, revealing an enhancement of interactions near the elbows and a slight attenuation of the ridges.","PeriodicalId":10589,"journal":{"name":"Communications Materials","volume":"7 1","pages":"51"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12884964/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146156527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Soft-interfaced liquid crystal microfluidics can probe the rigidity of lipid vesicles. 软界面液晶微流体可以探测脂质囊泡的刚性。

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Communications Materials Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-17 DOI: 10.1038/s43246-026-01128-7

Cansu Dedeoglu, Emre Bukusoglu

{"title":"Soft-interfaced liquid crystal microfluidics can probe the rigidity of lipid vesicles.","authors":"Cansu Dedeoglu, Emre Bukusoglu","doi":"10.1038/s43246-026-01128-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43246-026-01128-7","url":null,"abstract":"Liquid crystal (LC)-aqueous interfaces were shown to respond to the phospholipid interactions via optically observable ordering transitions; however, past attempts lack the quantification of the transport and fusion kinetics of the vesicles at the interfaces. Herein, we investigated the response of flowing LC-aqueous interfaces upon fusion of the vesicles formed by pure 1,2-dilauroyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DLPC), 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC), 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC), or egg sphingomyelin or their mixtures with guest molecules. Using stabilized LC-aqueous interfaces in transparent microfluidic chips that allow spatiotemporal quantification using fluorescence, confocal, and polarized light microscopy, we demonstrated that flowing LC interfaces provide a rapid response to lipid adsorption, where their spatiotemporal interfacial distribution differs depending on the mechanical properties of their vesicles. We show that cholesterol-dissolved lipid complexes result in distinct LC-response kinetics, mainly associated to the changes in their rigidities. Considering the critical role of the mechanical properties of cell membranes in proper cellular function, this study is significant as it offers a continuous and rapid early diagnosis platform for detecting minor mechanical alterations in lipid bilayers, which may lead to cell dysfunction that contributes to critical diseases.","PeriodicalId":10589,"journal":{"name":"Communications Materials","volume":"7 1","pages":"120"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13143827/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147834742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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