Nature MaterialsPub Date : 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02380-x
S J Gomez Alvarado,J R Chamorro,D Rout,J Hielscher,Sarah Schwarz,Caeli Benyacko,M B Stone,V Ovidiu Garlea,A R Jackson,G Pokharel,R Gomez,B R Ortiz,Suchismita Sarker,L Kautzsch,L C Gallington,R Seshadri,Stephen D Wilson
{"title":"Interleaved bond frustration in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet.","authors":"S J Gomez Alvarado,J R Chamorro,D Rout,J Hielscher,Sarah Schwarz,Caeli Benyacko,M B Stone,V Ovidiu Garlea,A R Jackson,G Pokharel,R Gomez,B R Ortiz,Suchismita Sarker,L Kautzsch,L C Gallington,R Seshadri,Stephen D Wilson","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02380-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02380-x","url":null,"abstract":"Frustration of long-range order via lattice geometry amplifies fluctuations and generates ground states that are highly sensitive to perturbations. Traditionally, geometric frustration is used to engineer unconventional magnetic states; however, the charge degree of freedom and bond order can be similarly frustrated. Finding materials that host both frustrated magnetic and bond networks holds promise for engineering structural and magnetic states with the potential of coupling to one another via either magnetic or strain fields. Here we identify an unusual instance of this coexistence in the triangular lattice antiferromagnets LnCd3P3 (Ln = lanthanides). These compounds feature two-dimensional planes of unique trigonal planar CdP3 units with an underlying bond instability that is frustrated via emergent kagome ice correlations. This bond instability is interleaved in between layers of frustrated magnetic moments. Our results establish LnCd3P3 as a rare materials class in which frustrated magnetism is embedded within a dopable semiconductor with a frustrated bond order instability.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145339106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intermediate phase evolution for stable and oriented evaporated wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells.","authors":"Zijing Dong,Jingcong Hu,Xiao Guo,Zhuojie Shi,Haijie Chen,Yunluo Wang,Ran Luo,Julian A Steele,Zachary Degnan,Eduardo Solano,Qilin Zhou,Nikhil Kalasariya,Nengxu Li,Tao Wang,Jinxi Chen,Ling Kai Lee,Yuduan Wang,Jia Li,Martin Stolterfoht,Manling Sui,Yue Lu,Yi Hou","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02375-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02375-8","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells have pushed tandem efficiencies to 34.9%, reinforcing their promise for next-generation photovoltaics. However, their commercial adoption is hindered by stability issues of wide-bandgap perovskites, especially under high-temperature maximum power point tracking conditions. Here we report the stabilization of ~1.7-eV wide-bandgap perovskites via intermediate phase evolution, enabling a self-guided crystal-growth mode. A CsI2Br intermediate phase forms during early stage deposition, directing the oriented growth of polycrystalline films with unique texturing. Atomic-scale scanning transmission electron microscopy reveals that the CsI2Br ( 1 2 ¯ 3 ) facet, with a 2.9-Å interplanar spacing, matches the perovskite (200) facet, guiding coherent {100} growth. This results in enhanced crystallinity, with a 2-order-magnitude increase in the (100) diffraction intensity and a reduced full-width at half-maximum from 0.249° to 0.148°, compared with solution-processed films. The resulting solar cells exhibit outstanding thermal and operational stability, maintaining performance under maximum power point tracking for over 3,000 h at room temperature and over 500 h at 110 °C, with a projected lifetime of ~70,000 h. With 21.37% power conversion efficiency and >84% fill factor, this work presents a compelling route towards stable, high-efficiency tandem photovoltaics.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"200 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145339105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drawing boundaries between feasible and unfeasible zeolite intergrowths using high-throughput computational screening with synthesis validation.","authors":"Kota Oishi,Koki Muraoka,Satoko Toyama,Takeshi Iwata,Takehito Seki,Naoya Shibata,Kenta Iyoki,Toru Wakihara,Tatsuya Okubo,Akira Nakayama","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02377-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02377-6","url":null,"abstract":"Zeolites are a class of porous crystalline silicate-based materials with applications such as catalysis and separation. Zeolite intergrowths can have superior performance compared with conventional single-phase zeolites in these applications. This study develops a computational workflow to evaluate ~1.03 trillion atomistic structures to identify promising zeolite intergrowths through geometrical analysis and atomistic simulations. We find that interfacial energy is an excellent descriptor to distinguish hydrothermally synthesized zeolite intergrowths from the others, showing almost-perfect classification performance (area under the curve of 0.995). Computational screening workflow saves 100% of hydrothermally synthesized zeolite pairs and successfully rejects 99.3% of hypothetical pairs. Network analyses reveal that hypothetical pairs comparable to experimentally proven ones show substantial topological and chemical similarities, although such information is not directly used in the screening workflow. One of the hypothetical candidates that passed the criteria is experimentally realized by direct and seed-assisted hydrothermal syntheses, thereby broadening the applicable scope of zeolite intergrowths to zincosilicates with three and nine rings.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-performance graphene-based carbon fibres prepared at room temperature via domain folding.","authors":"Peng Li,Ziqiu Wang,Gangfeng Cai,Yingjie Zhao,Zihao Deng,Bo Wang,Zheng Li,Xin Ming,Weiwei Gao,Zhen Xu,Zhiping Xu,Yingjun Liu,Chao Gao","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02384-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02384-7","url":null,"abstract":"The assembly of strong graphene into high-performance macroscopic materials has attracted great interest and sustained attention. Thermal treatment has proven effective in improving the performance by restoring pristine graphene lattice from defective graphene oxide. However, the mechanical performance of graphene fibres remains inferior to that of single-layer pristine graphene, primarily due to assembly-induced defects such as microvoids that form during the folding process of two-dimensional sheets to fibre structures. Here we report the room-temperature fabrication of ultrastrong and stiff graphene fibres, which exhibit an average tensile strength of 5.19 GPa and Young's modulus of 529 GPa. We propose a domain-folding strategy to construct highly folded yet densely packed nanotexture, resulting in a tenfold reduction in microvoid volume. The stress distribution within the fibres is homogenized, leading to enhanced mechanical properties. These findings advance the fabrication of carbon fibres and other macroscopic materials assembled from two-dimensional nanosheets, enabling high material quality with reduced energy consumption.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145331962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hermetic stretchable seals enabled by a viscoplastic surface effect.","authors":"Rui Xia,Chun Li,Yan Shao,Dong He,Jianfeng Yan,Mao Yu,Kangjie Chu,Huanhuan Yang,Daohang Cai,Guoli Chen,Yaqi Du,Guangfu Luo,Weishu Liu,Fuzeng Ren,Zhubing He,Yanhao Yu","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02386-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02386-5","url":null,"abstract":"Elastic seals safeguard stretchable electronics from reactive species in the surrounding environment. However, elastic contact with device modules and the intrinsic small-molecule permeability of elastomers limit the hermeticity of devices. Here we present a viscoplastic surface effect in polymeric elastomers for deriving sealing platforms with high hermeticity and large stretchability, made possible by controlling phase separations of partially miscible polar plastics within the near-surface region of block copolymer elastomers. The resulting viscoplastic surface allows the elastomer to form defect-free interfaces regardless of their size, materials chemistry and geometry. This capability facilitates the airtight integration of device modules to mitigate side leakage and enable the seamless assembly of high-potential gas barriers to prevent bulk penetration. A multilayer seal that incorporates scavenging components demonstrates properties that are as hermetic as aluminium foil while being stretchable like a rubber band. This breakthrough extends the operational lifetime of perovskite optoelectronics, hydrogel thermoelectrics and implantable bioelectronics without sacrificing their stretchability or efficiency.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145311469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MaterialsPub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02374-9
Vikalp Raj,Yixian Wang,Min Feng,Kaustubh G Naik,Manish Jain,Bairav S Vishnugopi,Shimao Deng,Noah B Schorr,Martin Salazar,Alexander M Heusser,Xiaojing Huang,Andrew Scott Manning,Sergiy Kalnaus,Yijin Liu,John Watt,Josefine D McBrayer,Brad L Boyce,Hong Fang,Puru Jena,Partha P Mukherjee,Yue Qi,David Mitlin
{"title":"Grain boundary zirconia-modified garnet solid-state electrolyte.","authors":"Vikalp Raj,Yixian Wang,Min Feng,Kaustubh G Naik,Manish Jain,Bairav S Vishnugopi,Shimao Deng,Noah B Schorr,Martin Salazar,Alexander M Heusser,Xiaojing Huang,Andrew Scott Manning,Sergiy Kalnaus,Yijin Liu,John Watt,Josefine D McBrayer,Brad L Boyce,Hong Fang,Puru Jena,Partha P Mukherjee,Yue Qi,David Mitlin","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02374-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02374-9","url":null,"abstract":"We report a method for promoting electrochemical stability in garnet Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12 solid-state electrolyte based on a composite two-phase oxide-oxide microstructure. Grain boundary precipitation of the controlled distribution of amorphous zirconium oxide microparticles is achieved through the addition of reactive tantalum carbide. During ambient-atmosphere sintering, the carbide decomposes through an in situ reaction, the 'extra' Ta substituting for Zr within the Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12 lattice. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations identify a thermodynamically favourable reaction path and show how substituting Ta5+ at Zr4+ sites affects the crystal structure as well as bulk ionic and electronic conductivities. Quantitative stereology highlights that zirconia also acts as a sintering aid, reducing compact porosity. Cryogenic focused-ion-beam scanning electron microscopy and fractography analysis of cycled solid-state electrolytes illustrates that near-universally observed intergranular Li-metal dendrite propagation is suppressed by the two-phase microstructure, favouring transgranular dendrites instead. Importantly, DFT demonstrates that compared with the Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12 surface, the zirconium oxide surface per se is less electronically conductive and does not trap excess electrons to reduce Li ions. This is a key reason for the substantial improvement in the electrochemical properties over the single-phase baseline.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145296177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MaterialsPub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02356-x
Hari Ramachandran, Edward W Mu, Eder G Lomeli, Augustin Braun, Masato Goto, Kuan H Hsu, Jue Liu, Zhelong Jiang, Kipil Lim, Grace M Busse, Brian Moritz, Joshua J Kas, John Vinson, John J Rehr, Jungjin Park, Iwnetim I Abate, Yuichi Shimakawa, Edward I Solomon, Wanli Yang, William E Gent, Thomas P Devereaux, William C Chueh
{"title":"A formal Fe<sup>III/V</sup> redox couple in an intercalation electrode.","authors":"Hari Ramachandran, Edward W Mu, Eder G Lomeli, Augustin Braun, Masato Goto, Kuan H Hsu, Jue Liu, Zhelong Jiang, Kipil Lim, Grace M Busse, Brian Moritz, Joshua J Kas, John Vinson, John J Rehr, Jungjin Park, Iwnetim I Abate, Yuichi Shimakawa, Edward I Solomon, Wanli Yang, William E Gent, Thomas P Devereaux, William C Chueh","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02356-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02356-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Iron redox cycling between low-valent oxidation states of Fe<sup>II</sup> and Fe<sup>III</sup> drives crucial processes in nature. The Fe<sup>II/III</sup> redox couple charge compensates the cycling of lithium iron phosphate, a positive electrode (cathode) for lithium-ion batteries. High-valent iron redox couples, involving formal oxidation higher than Fe<sup>III</sup>, could deliver higher electrochemical potentials and energy densities. However, because of the instability of high-valent Fe electrodes, they have proven difficult to probe and exploit in intercalation systems. Here we report and characterize a formal Fe<sup>III/V</sup> redox couple by revisiting the charge compensation mechanism of (de)lithiation in Li<sub>4</sub>FeSbO<sub>6</sub>. Valence-sensitive experimental and computational core-level spectroscopy reveal a direct transition from Fe<sup>III</sup> (3d<sup>5</sup>) to a negative-charge-transfer Fe<sup>V</sup> (3d<sup>5</sup>L<sup>2</sup>) ground state on delithiation, without forming Fe<sup>IV</sup>, or oxygen dimers. We identify that the cation ordering in Li<sub>4</sub>FeSbO<sub>6</sub> drives a templated phase transition to stabilize the unique Fe<sup>V</sup> species and demonstrate that disrupting cation ordering suppresses the Fe<sup>III/V</sup> redox couple. Exhibiting resistance to calendar aging, high operating potential and low voltage hysteresis, the Fe<sup>III/V</sup> redox couple in Li<sub>4</sub>FeSbO<sub>6</sub> provides a framework for developing sustainable, Fe-based intercalation cathodes for high-voltage applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145302307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rapid synthesis of subnanoscale high-entropy alloys with ultrahigh durability.","authors":"Chao Zhang,Zhongliao Wang,Chang Liu,Yu Bai,Changhao Liang,Jingxiang Low,Yujie Xiong","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02358-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02358-9","url":null,"abstract":"Subnanoscale (<2 nm) high-entropy alloys (SHEAs) have garnered increasing attention for their unique physicochemical properties that enable high catalytic performance. However, this potential is offset by reduced stability, a characteristic typically associated with high-entropy alloys, due to their high reactivity at this scale. Here we circumvent this obstacle by using the localized surface plasmon resonance effect along with laser fragmentation in liquids for synthesizing SHEAs. Localized-surface-plasmon-resonance-generated hot electrons from gold nanoparticles facilitate metal ion reduction, whereas the 7-ns laser pulse induces ultrafast heating and cooling cycles, fusing multiple metals into SHEAs with enhanced stability. This method enables the incorporation of up to ten elements into SHEAs. The selected AuPtRuRhIr SHEAs demonstrate high stability to work under 2 A cm-2 at 2.12 V for over 1,200 h in a proton exchange membrane electrolyser. This work presents a general strategy for the preparation of SHEAs, applicable across a wide range of fields.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145296179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}