Nature MaterialsPub Date : 2025-02-03DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02096-4
Minqiang Wang, Cui Ye, Yiran Yang, Daniel Mukasa, Canran Wang, Changhao Xu, Jihong Min, Samuel A. Solomon, Jiaobing Tu, Guofang Shen, Songsong Tang, Tzung K. Hsiai, Zhaoping Li, Jeannine S. McCune, Wei Gao
{"title":"Printable molecule-selective core–shell nanoparticles for wearable and implantable sensing","authors":"Minqiang Wang, Cui Ye, Yiran Yang, Daniel Mukasa, Canran Wang, Changhao Xu, Jihong Min, Samuel A. Solomon, Jiaobing Tu, Guofang Shen, Songsong Tang, Tzung K. Hsiai, Zhaoping Li, Jeannine S. McCune, Wei Gao","doi":"10.1038/s41563-024-02096-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-024-02096-4","url":null,"abstract":"Wearable and implantable biosensors are pioneering new frontiers in precision medicine by enabling continuous biomolecule analysis for fundamental investigation and personalized health monitoring. However, their widespread adoption remains impeded by challenges such as the limited number of detectable targets, operational instability and production scalability. Here, to address these issues, we introduce printable core–shell nanoparticles with built-in dual functionality: a molecularly imprinted polymer shell for customizable target recognition, and a nickel hexacyanoferrate core for stable electrochemical transduction. Using inkjet printing with an optimized nanoparticle ink formulation, we demonstrate the mass production of robust and flexible biosensors capable of continuously monitoring a broad spectrum of biomarkers, including amino acids, vitamins, metabolites and drugs. We demonstrate their effectiveness in wearable metabolic monitoring of vitamin C, tryptophan and creatinine in individuals with long COVID. Additionally, we validate their utility in therapeutic drug monitoring for cancer patients and in a mouse model through providing real-time analysis of immunosuppressants such as busulfan, cyclophosphamide and mycophenolic acid. Current wearable and implantable biosensors still face challenges to improve sensitivity, stability and scalability. Here the authors report inkjet-printable, mass-producible core–shell nanoparticle-based biosensors to monitor a broad range of biomarkers.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 4","pages":"589-598"},"PeriodicalIF":37.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143077119","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 : 2025-01-31DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02094-6
Haoyu Liu, Yudan Chen, Po-Hsiu Chien, Ghoncheh Amouzandeh, Dewen Hou, Erica Truong, Ifeoluwa P. Oyekunle, Jamini Bhagu, Samuel W. Holder, Hui Xiong, Peter L. Gor’kov, Jens T. Rosenberg, Samuel C. Grant, Yan-Yan Hu
{"title":"Dendrite formation in solid-state batteries arising from lithium plating and electrolyte reduction","authors":"Haoyu Liu, Yudan Chen, Po-Hsiu Chien, Ghoncheh Amouzandeh, Dewen Hou, Erica Truong, Ifeoluwa P. Oyekunle, Jamini Bhagu, Samuel W. Holder, Hui Xiong, Peter L. Gor’kov, Jens T. Rosenberg, Samuel C. Grant, Yan-Yan Hu","doi":"10.1038/s41563-024-02094-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-024-02094-6","url":null,"abstract":"All-solid-state batteries offer high-energy-density and eco-friendly energy storage but face commercial hurdles due to dendrite formation, especially with lithium metal anodes. Here we report that dendrite formation in Li/Li7La3Zr2O12/Li batteries occurs via two distinct mechanisms, using non-invasive solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance imaging. Tracer-exchange nuclear magnetic resonance shows non-uniform Li plating at electrode–electrolyte interfaces and local Li+ reduction at Li7La3Zr2O12 grain boundaries. In situ magnetic resonance imaging reveals rapid dendrite formation via non-uniform Li plating, followed by sluggish bulk dendrite nucleation from Li+ reduction, with an intervening period of stalled growth. Formation of amorphous dendrites and subsequent crystallization, the defect chemistry of solid electrolytes and battery operating conditions play a critical role in shaping the complex interplay between the two mechanisms. Overall, this work deepens our understanding of dendrite formation in solid-state Li batteries and provides comprehensive insight that might be valuable for mitigating dendrite-related challenges. NMR spectroscopy and imaging show that dendrites in a solid-state Li battery are formed from Li plating on the electrode and Li+ reduction at solid electrolyte grain boundaries, with an interlapped stalled growth period.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 4","pages":"581-588"},"PeriodicalIF":37.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143072110","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 : 2025-01-31DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02104-7
Yifei Mo
{"title":"Deciphering lithium penetration through solids","authors":"Yifei Mo","doi":"10.1038/s41563-024-02104-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-024-02104-7","url":null,"abstract":"Non-invasive imaging reveals the mechanisms of lithium penetration in solid-state batteries, paving the way for safer and more durable energy storage technologies.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 4","pages":"487-488"},"PeriodicalIF":37.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143072114","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 : 2025-01-31DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02091-9
Giorgia Palombo, Simon Weir, Davide Michieletto, Yair Augusto Gutiérrez Fosado
{"title":"Topological linking determines elasticity in limited valence networks","authors":"Giorgia Palombo, Simon Weir, Davide Michieletto, Yair Augusto Gutiérrez Fosado","doi":"10.1038/s41563-024-02091-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-024-02091-9","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the relationship between the microscopic structure and topology of a material and its macroscopic properties is a fundamental challenge across a wide range of systems. Here we investigate the viscoelasticity of DNA nanostar hydrogels—a model system for physical networks with limited valence—by coupling rheology measurements, confocal imaging and molecular dynamics simulations. We discover that these networks display a large degree of interpenetration and that loops within the network are topologically linked, forming a percolating network-within-network structure. Below the overlapping concentration, the fraction of branching points and the pore size determine the high-frequency elasticity of these physical gels. At higher concentrations, we discover that this elastic response is dictated by the abundance of topological links between looped motifs in the gel. Our findings highlight the emergence of ‘topological elasticity’ as a previously overlooked mechanism in generic network-forming liquids and gels and inform the design of topologically controllable material behaviours. Experiments and simulations of DNA nanostar hydrogels reveal that microscopic topology determines macroscale elasticity in amorphous networks.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 3","pages":"454-461"},"PeriodicalIF":37.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-024-02091-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143072109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MaterialsPub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02087-5
Chao Li, Jiali Song, Hanjian Lai, Huotian Zhang, Rongkun Zhou, Jinqiu Xu, Haodong Huang, Liming Liu, Jiaxin Gao, Yuxuan Li, Min Hun Jee, Zilong Zheng, Sha Liu, Jun Yan, Xian-Kai Chen, Zheng Tang, Chen Zhang, Han Young Woo, Feng He, Feng Gao, He Yan, Yanming Sun
{"title":"Non-fullerene acceptors with high crystallinity and photoluminescence quantum yield enable >20% efficiency organic solar cells","authors":"Chao Li, Jiali Song, Hanjian Lai, Huotian Zhang, Rongkun Zhou, Jinqiu Xu, Haodong Huang, Liming Liu, Jiaxin Gao, Yuxuan Li, Min Hun Jee, Zilong Zheng, Sha Liu, Jun Yan, Xian-Kai Chen, Zheng Tang, Chen Zhang, Han Young Woo, Feng He, Feng Gao, He Yan, Yanming Sun","doi":"10.1038/s41563-024-02087-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-024-02087-5","url":null,"abstract":"The rational design of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) with both high crystallinity and photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) is of crucial importance for achieving high-efficiency and low-energy-loss organic solar cells (OSCs). However, increasing the crystallinity of an NFA tends to decrease its PLQY, which results in a high non-radiative energy loss in OSCs. Here we demonstrate that the crystallinity and PLQY of NFAs can be fine-tuned by asymmetrically adapting the branching position of alkyl chains on the thiophene unit of the L8-BO acceptor. It was found that L8-BO-C4, with 2-butyloctyl on one side and 4-butyldecyl on the other side, can simultaneously achieve high crystallinity and PLQY. A high efficiency of 20.42% (certified as 20.1%) with an open-circuit voltage of 0.894 V and a fill factor of 81.6% is achieved for the single-junction OSC. This work reveals how important the strategy of shifting the alkyl chain branching position is in developing high-performance NFAs for efficient OSCs. Design strategies for non-fullerene acceptors are important for achieving high-efficiency organic solar cells. Here the authors design asymmetrically branched alkyl chains on the thiophene unit of the L8-BO acceptor to achieve high crystallinity and photoluminescence quantum yield, yielding over 20% efficiency in single-junction organic solar cells.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 3","pages":"433-443"},"PeriodicalIF":37.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143054771","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 : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02090-w
Fan Yang, Shichen Liu, Heun Jin Lee, Rob Phillips, Matt Thomson
{"title":"Dynamic flow control through active matter programming language","authors":"Fan Yang, Shichen Liu, Heun Jin Lee, Rob Phillips, Matt Thomson","doi":"10.1038/s41563-024-02090-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-024-02090-w","url":null,"abstract":"Cells use ‘active’ energy-consuming motor and filament protein networks to control micrometre-scale transport and fluid flows. Biological active materials could be used in dynamically programmable devices that achieve spatial and temporal resolution that exceeds current microfluidic technologies. However, reconstituted motor–microtubule systems generate chaotic flows and cannot be directly harnessed for engineering applications. Here we develop a light-controlled programming strategy for biological active matter to construct micrometre-scale fluid flow fields for transport, separation and mixing. We circumvent nonlinear dynamic effects within the active fluids by limiting hydrodynamic interactions between contracting motor–filament networks patterned with light. Using a predictive model, we design and apply flow fields to accomplish canonical microfluidic tasks such as transporting and separating cell clusters, probing the extensional rheology of polymers and giant lipid vesicles and generating mixing flows at low Reynolds numbers. Our findings provide a framework for programming dynamic flows and demonstrate the potential of active matter systems as an engineering technology. Light-controlled motor–microtubule systems are used to construct micrometre-scale fluid flows for programmable transport, separation and mixing.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 4","pages":"615-625"},"PeriodicalIF":37.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-024-02090-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143055023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MaterialsPub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02102-9
Dieter Neher
{"title":"Asymmetric side-chains work","authors":"Dieter Neher","doi":"10.1038/s41563-024-02102-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-024-02102-9","url":null,"abstract":"A new series of non-fullerene acceptors with asymmetric branched alkyl chains are developed to achieve more than 20% efficiency organic solar cells.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 3","pages":"338-339"},"PeriodicalIF":37.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143055022","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 : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02101-w
Matthew W. Day, James W. McIver
{"title":"Hot effect and cool control","authors":"Matthew W. Day, James W. McIver","doi":"10.1038/s41563-024-02101-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-024-02101-w","url":null,"abstract":"Metastable spin order in a canted antiferromagnet is manipulated using strong picosecond magnetic fields, without parasitic heating.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 2","pages":"167-168"},"PeriodicalIF":37.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143044087","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 : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-02088-4
Yuting Liu, Albert Lee, Kun Qian, Peng Zhang, Zhihua Xiao, Haoran He, Zheyu Ren, Shun Kong Cheung, Ruizi Liu, Yaoyin Li, Xu Zhang, Zichao Ma, Jianyuan Zhao, Weiwei Zhao, Guoqiang Yu, Xin Wang, Junwei Liu, Zhongrui Wang, Kang L. Wang, Qiming Shao
{"title":"Cryogenic in-memory computing using magnetic topological insulators","authors":"Yuting Liu, Albert Lee, Kun Qian, Peng Zhang, Zhihua Xiao, Haoran He, Zheyu Ren, Shun Kong Cheung, Ruizi Liu, Yaoyin Li, Xu Zhang, Zichao Ma, Jianyuan Zhao, Weiwei Zhao, Guoqiang Yu, Xin Wang, Junwei Liu, Zhongrui Wang, Kang L. Wang, Qiming Shao","doi":"10.1038/s41563-024-02088-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-024-02088-4","url":null,"abstract":"Machine learning algorithms have proven to be effective for essential quantum computation tasks such as quantum error correction and quantum control. Efficient hardware implementation of these algorithms at cryogenic temperatures is essential. Here we utilize magnetic topological insulators as memristors (termed magnetic topological memristors) and introduce a cryogenic in-memory computing scheme based on the coexistence of a chiral edge state and a topological surface state. The memristive switching and reading of the giant anomalous Hall effect exhibit high energy efficiency, high stability and low stochasticity. We achieve high accuracy in a proof-of-concept classification task using four magnetic topological memristors. Furthermore, our algorithm-level and circuit-level simulations of large-scale neural networks demonstrate software-level accuracy and lower energy consumption for image recognition and quantum state preparation compared with existing magnetic memristor and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technologies. Our results not only showcase a new application of chiral edge states but also may inspire further topological quantum-physics-based novel computing schemes. Material implementation of machine learning algorithms for advanced computing at cryogenic temperature remains rare. Here, the authors report a cryogenic in-memory computing platform using chiral edge states of magnetic topological insulators.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 4","pages":"559-564"},"PeriodicalIF":37.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143044089","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}