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Ultrahigh pressure phase transition in ice

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-09-07 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02732-1

Israel Osmond, Mikhail A. Kuzovnikov, David A. Lewis, Hannah A. Shuttleworth, Tomás Marqueño, Milo J. Dixon, Cerian E. A. Robertson, Vitan Cherepnalkoski, Bihan Wang, Andreas Hermann, Miriam Peña-Alvarez, Ross T. Howie

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Electric-field switching of g-wave phonon chirality in ferroelectric BaTiO3

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-09-07 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02737-w

Michael Grimes, Hiroki Ueda, Clifford J. Allington, Carl P. Romao, Kurt Kummer, Puneet Kaur, Li-Shu Wang, Yao-Wen Chang, Jan-Chi Yang, Shih-Wen Huang, Urs Staub

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Electrically programmable polariton symmetry breaking via non-Hermitian dissipation engineering

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-09-07 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02734-z

Na Chen, Hanchao Teng, Yifu Sun, Yang Yang, Zhuoxin Xue, Oubo You, Ke Chen, Chengyu Jiang, Junlin Wang, Shenghan Zhou, Xiang Liu, Chong Wang, Zhen-Ze Li, Sheng Meng, Maguang Zhu, Hai Hu, Qing Dai

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Octahedral connectivity reconfigures interfacial carrier-selective properties for efficient perovskite solar cells. 八面体连通性重新配置了高效钙钛矿太阳能电池的界面载流子选择特性。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-09-03 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02722-3

Yalan Zhang, Zheng Liang, Seong Chan Cho, Seong-Ho Cho, Guiming Fu, Xin Chen, Boyuan Liu, Sang-Uk Lee, Jae Hun Seol, Sanwan Liu, Hui Zhang, Kui Zhao, Sang Uck Lee, Xu Pan, Nam-Gyu Park

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A chlorinated organic cation enables stable 2D/3D tin iodide perovskite photovoltaics. 氯化有机阳离子可实现稳定的2D/3D碘化锡钙钛矿光伏发电。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-09-01 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02726-z

Christopher T Triggs, Lei Chen, Jiahao Xie, Nicholas J Weadock, Zihan Zhang, Jiselle Y Ye, Ross A Kerner, Margherita Taddei, Fengjiu Yang, Bennett Addison, Xiaoming Wang, Tianran Liu, Steven P Harvey, Michael F Toney, Matthew C Beard, Yanfa Yan, Kai Zhu, Song Jin

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The meta way of thinking. 元思维方式。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02710-7

Alexandre Dmitriev, Magnus P Jonsson, Mark L Brongersma, Nader Engheta, Nicolò Maccaferri

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Tuning moiré twist angles enhances tensile plasticity in bulk van der Waals crystals. 调节莫尔扭角可提高块状范德华晶体的拉伸塑性。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02731-2

Jiali Zhou, Jiawei Zou, Zhiqiang Gao, Jiawei Zhang, Linlin Zhang, Zhi Li, Zhengyang Zhou, Pengfei Qiu, Yang Yang, Qian Yu, Lidong Chen, Xun Shi

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Semiconducting polymers assembled to perfection. 完美组装的半导体聚合物。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02720-5

Ying Diao

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From invention to industrialization of materials in Europe. 欧洲的材料从发明到工业化。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-08-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02713-4

Paula Maria Vilarinho, Sean Kelly

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Neural network finds twisted crystals that steer light at the nanoscale. 神经网络发现了扭曲的晶体，可以在纳米尺度上引导光线。