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Two-dimensional magnets stack up against multiferroic competition. 二维磁体与多铁磁性竞争。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02591-w

Meixin Cheng, Adam W Tsen

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Observing energy materials in action 观察能源材料的作用

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-05-05 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02610-w

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Guiding sulfur without crystallizing it 引导硫而不使其结晶

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-05-05 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02520-x

Sebastian Risse, Pouya Partovi-Azar

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Observation of coherent ferron emission and propagation. 相干铁子发射和传播的观测。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02597-4

Jeongheon Choe, Taketo Handa, Chun-Ying Huang, André Koch Liston, Jordan Cox, Jonathan Stensberg, Yongseok Hong, Daniel G Chica, Ding Xu, Fuyang Tay, Samra Husremovic, Vinicius da Silveira Lanza Avelar, Eric A Arsenault, Zhuquan Zhang, James McIver, Dmitri N Basov, Milan Delor, Xavier Roy, X-Y Zhu

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Field-resolved observation of exciton coherence in a van der Waals magnet. 范德华磁体中激子相干性的场分辨观测。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02598-3

Matthew Yeung, Alexander von Hoegen, Emil Viñas Boström, Fangzhou Zhao, Felix Ritzkowsky, Jack B Maier, Gian Luca Dolso, Christian Heide, Daniel G Chica, Xavier Roy, Karl K Berggren, Angel Rubio, Phillip D Keathley, Nuh Gedik

{"title":"Field-resolved observation of exciton coherence in a van der Waals magnet.","authors":"Matthew Yeung, Alexander von Hoegen, Emil Viñas Boström, Fangzhou Zhao, Felix Ritzkowsky, Jack B Maier, Gian Luca Dolso, Christian Heide, Daniel G Chica, Xavier Roy, Karl K Berggren, Angel Rubio, Phillip D Keathley, Nuh Gedik","doi":"10.1038/s41563-026-02598-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-026-02598-3","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of coherence among electronic quasiparticles underlies collective quantum phenomena from superconductivity to superradiance. In semiconductors, exciton coherence is generally thought to decay rapidly due to scattering and dephasing, limiting its persistence on ultrafast timescales. Here we demonstrate a light-field-driven mechanism that creates and stabilizes exciton coherence in the layered antiferromagnet CrSBr. We directly record the coherent optical field emitted by excitons and track in real time how a deterministic phase, imprinted by the excitation laser, drives incoherent excitons to synchronize into a collective state. This ensemble remains phase coherent for more than 2 ps, whereas its resonance energy undergoes an ultrafast modulation mediated by spin and lattice interactions. The time-resolved field evolution indicates that the multiple peaks seen in conventional spectra originate from a single excitonic resonance subject to dynamic energy modulation. Our findings establish optical phase imprinting as a mechanism to control and sustain collective order in semiconducting magnets, bridging light-driven dynamics with excitonic and magnetic correlations in layered quantum materials.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147817975","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}

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Interface effects unlock unusual superconductivity in a light-element superconductor. 界面效应解开了轻元素超导体中不寻常的超导性。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02605-7

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Fibrillar adhesion dynamics govern the timescales of nuclear mechano-response via the vimentin cytoskeleton. 纤维粘附动力学通过蛋白骨架控制核机械反应的时间尺度。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02590-x

Amy E M Beedle, Vivek Sharma, Jorge Oliver-De La Cruz, Anuja Jaganathan, Aina Albajar-Sigalés, F Max Yavitt, Kaustav Bera, Ion Andreu, Ignasi Granero-Moya, Dobryna Zalvidea, Zanetta Kechagia, Gerhard Wiche, Xavier Trepat, Johanna Ivaska, Kristi S Anseth, Vivek B Shenoy, Pere Roca-Cusachs

{"title":"Fibrillar adhesion dynamics govern the timescales of nuclear mechano-response via the vimentin cytoskeleton.","authors":"Amy E M Beedle, Vivek Sharma, Jorge Oliver-De La Cruz, Anuja Jaganathan, Aina Albajar-Sigalés, F Max Yavitt, Kaustav Bera, Ion Andreu, Ignasi Granero-Moya, Dobryna Zalvidea, Zanetta Kechagia, Gerhard Wiche, Xavier Trepat, Johanna Ivaska, Kristi S Anseth, Vivek B Shenoy, Pere Roca-Cusachs","doi":"10.1038/s41563-026-02590-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-026-02590-x","url":null,"abstract":"The cell nucleus is continuously exposed to external signals, of both chemical and mechanical nature. To ensure proper cellular response, cells need to regulate the transmission, timing and duration of these signals. Although such timescale regulation is well described for chemical signals, whether and how it applies to mechanical signals reaching the nucleus is still not fully understood. Here we demonstrate that the formation of fibrillar adhesions locks the nucleus in a mechanically deformed conformation, setting the mechano-response timescale to that of fibrillar adhesion remodelling (~1 h). This process encompasses both mechanical deformation and associated mechanotransduction (such as via YAP), in response to both increased and decreased mechanical stimulation. The underlying mechanism is the anchoring of the vimentin cytoskeleton to fibrillar adhesions and the extracellular matrix through plectin 1f, which maintains nuclear deformation. Our results reveal a mechanism to regulate the timescale of mechanical adaptation, effectively setting a low-pass filter to mechanotransduction.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147776992","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}

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Narrow-bandgap acceptors with low energetic disorder achieve over 21% efficiency in organic solar cells. 具有低能量无序的窄带隙受体在有机太阳能电池中实现了21%以上的效率。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02589-4

Jing Tao,Chi Zhang,Qiming Zhao,Chenyang Tian,Jin Fang,Ailing Tang,Yao Zhao,Dingding Qiu,Hao Zhang,Huijuan Bi,Wenjun Zou,Kun Lu,Lingyun Zhu,Zhixiang Wei

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Ion correlations explain kinetic selectivity in diffusion-limited solid-state synthesis reactions. 离子相关性解释了扩散受限固体合成反应中的动力学选择性。

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02596-5

Vir Karan, Max C Gallant, Yuxing Fei, Gerbrand Ceder, Kristin A Persson

{"title":"Ion correlations explain kinetic selectivity in diffusion-limited solid-state synthesis reactions.","authors":"Vir Karan, Max C Gallant, Yuxing Fei, Gerbrand Ceder, Kristin A Persson","doi":"10.1038/s41563-026-02596-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-026-02596-5","url":null,"abstract":"Establishing viable solid-state synthesis pathways for novel inorganic materials remains a major challenge in materials science. Previous pathway design methods using pairwise reaction approaches have navigated the thermodynamic landscape with first-principles data but lack kinetic information, limiting their effectiveness. This gap leads to suboptimal precursor selection and predictions, especially for reactions forming competing phases with similar formation energies, where ion diffusion is a critical influence. Here we demonstrate an inorganic synthesis framework by incorporating machine learning-derived transport properties through 'liquid-like' product layers into a thermodynamic cellular reaction model. In the Ba-Ti-O system, known for its competitive polymorphism, we obtain accurate predictions of phase formation with varying BaO:TiO2 ratios as a function of time and temperature. We find that diffusion-thermodynamics interplay governs phase compositions, with cross-ion transport coefficients critical for predicting diffusion-limited selectivity. This work bridges length scales and timescales by integrating solid-state reaction kinetics with first-principles thermodynamics and spatial reactivity.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147776448","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}

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Optical nanoscopy of spatiotemporal metal stripping cooperativity at single-ion and subparticle resolution 单离子和亚粒子分辨率下时空金属剥离协同性的光学纳米观察

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Nature Materials Pub Date : 2026-04-27 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02567-w

Weidong Zhang, Yilu Song, Jie Zhao, Paulo C. D. Mendes, Jorge Ontaneda, Lei Fan, Xiaozhi Xu, Liguang Wang, Yingying Lu, Ctirad Červinka, Kai S. Exner, Sergey M. Kozlov, Ju Li, Xianwen Mao

{"title":"Optical nanoscopy of spatiotemporal metal stripping cooperativity at single-ion and subparticle resolution","authors":"Weidong Zhang, Yilu Song, Jie Zhao, Paulo C. D. Mendes, Jorge Ontaneda, Lei Fan, Xiaozhi Xu, Liguang Wang, Yingying Lu, Ctirad Červinka, Kai S. Exner, Sergey M. Kozlov, Ju Li, Xianwen Mao","doi":"10.1038/s41563-026-02567-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-026-02567-w","url":null,"abstract":"Coupled ion–electron interfacial reactivities on electroactive particles are complex and crucial to various battery chemistries and dynamics, yet direct visualization of these reactions remains elusive despite advances in operando imaging. Here we report ion-localization optical nanoscopy (ION) with single-ion, subparticle resolution that distinguishes microscopic static and dynamic disorder in ion-generation interfacial reactivity, offering nondestructive, real-time, non-equilibrium insights. We uncover diverse stripping dynamics of zinc anodes, revealing unexpected subparticle-level heterogeneity and challenging conventional views of uniform stripping on (002)-textured zinc. Mesoscale functional descriptors—intraparticle diffusive and electronic coupling strengths—that govern overall stripping uniformity are identified by ION, supported by computational methods and validated by in situ single-particle manipulation. Imaging-derived insights are further translated into ensemble-level strategies enabling exceptional anode reversibility. ION is cost-effective, high-throughput and broadly applicable to myriad ion-participated interfacial processes, including cathode (de)intercalation, solid–electrolyte interphase evolution, ion exchange and catalyst restructuring. Complex coupled ion–electron interfacial processes are poorly understood but crucial to battery dynamics. Here an ion-localization optical nanoscopy that enables single-ion imaging at 50 nm spatial and 20-ms temporal resolution at the single-particle level is presented and used to observe metal stripping cooperativity on Zn anodes.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"25 5","pages":"782-790"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147751880","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}

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