Nature MaterialsPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02289-5
{"title":"A Hall lot of effects","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02289-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02289-5","url":null,"abstract":"The Hall effect has been a powerful probe of the physics of materials for more than a century.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 7","pages":"979-979"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-025-02289-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533169","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 : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02145-6
Leonie Braks, Ali Coskun
{"title":"Molecular dampers for high-temperature capacitors","authors":"Leonie Braks, Ali Coskun","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02145-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02145-6","url":null,"abstract":"The macrocycle component of polyrotaxanes is used to dampen the molecular vibrations of polyimide at high temperatures, thereby preserving electronic resistivity and resulting in improved dielectric capacitor efficiency.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 7","pages":"990-992"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533170","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 : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02250-6
{"title":"Multimaterial 3D-printed structures from colour-selective resins","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02250-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02250-6","url":null,"abstract":"A resin comprising a hybrid epoxy–acrylate monomer and wavelength-selective photosensitizer components achieved rapid, high-resolution 3D printing of multimaterial structures. This technique produced structures that emulate natural mechanical gradients and functional structures including a spring for compressive damping, a knee joint model for smooth motion and a stretchable substrate for wearable electronics.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 7","pages":"1001-1002"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533213","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 : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02277-9
Jinguang Cheng
{"title":"A nickel for your superconductivity","authors":"Jinguang Cheng","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02277-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02277-9","url":null,"abstract":"High-quality superconducting thin films of the bilayer nickelate La2PrNi2O7 were prepared via a two-step post-annealing procedure, facilitating in-depth investigations of its intrinsic physical properties and microscopic mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 8","pages":"1160-1161"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515532","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 : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02249-z
Ji-Won Kim, Marshall J. Allen, Elizabeth A. Recker, Lynn M. Stevens, Henry L. Cater, Ain Uddin, Ang Gao, Wyatt Eckstrom, Anthony J. Arrowood, Gabriel E. Sanoja, Michael A. Cullinan, Benny D. Freeman, Zachariah A. Page
{"title":"Hybrid epoxy–acrylate resins for wavelength-selective multimaterial 3D printing","authors":"Ji-Won Kim, Marshall J. Allen, Elizabeth A. Recker, Lynn M. Stevens, Henry L. Cater, Ain Uddin, Ang Gao, Wyatt Eckstrom, Anthony J. Arrowood, Gabriel E. Sanoja, Michael A. Cullinan, Benny D. Freeman, Zachariah A. Page","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02249-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02249-z","url":null,"abstract":"Structures in nature combine hard and soft materials in precise three-dimensional (3D) arrangements, imbuing bulk properties and functionalities that remain elusive to mimic synthetically. However, the potential for biomimetic analogues to seamlessly interface hard materials with soft interfaces has driven the demand for innovative chemistries and manufacturing approaches. Here, we report a liquid resin for rapid, high-resolution digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing of multimaterial objects with an unprecedented combination of strength, elasticity and resistance to ageing. A covalently bound hybrid epoxy–acrylate monomer precludes plasticization of soft domains, while a wavelength-selective photosensitizer accelerates cationic curing of hard domains. Using dual projection for multicolour DLP 3D printing, bioinspired metamaterial structures are fabricated, including hard springs embedded in a soft cylinder to adjust compressive behaviour and a detailed knee joint featuring ‘bones’ and ‘ligaments’ for smooth motion. Finally, a proof-of-concept device demonstrates selective stretching for electronics. A hybrid epoxy–acrylate resin is reported for the digital light processing 3D printing of bioinspired metamaterial structures with precisely patterned hard and soft domains.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 7","pages":"1116-1125"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144515234","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 : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02269-9
Avery T. Tran, Emily O. Wisniewski, Panagiotis Mistriotis, Konstantin Stoletov, Maria Parlani, Alice Amitrano, Brent Ifemembi, Se Jong Lee, Kaustav Bera, Yuqi Zhang, Soontorn Tuntithavornwat, Alexandros Afthinos, Alexander Kiepas, Bhawana Agarwal, Sanjiban Nath, John J. Jamieson, Yi Zuo, Daniel Habib, Pei-Hsun Wu, Stuart S. Martin, Sharon Gerecht, Luo Gu, John D. Lewis, Petr Kalab, Peter Friedl, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos
{"title":"Cytoplasmic anillin and Ect2 promote RhoA/myosin II-dependent confined migration and invasion","authors":"Avery T. Tran, Emily O. Wisniewski, Panagiotis Mistriotis, Konstantin Stoletov, Maria Parlani, Alice Amitrano, Brent Ifemembi, Se Jong Lee, Kaustav Bera, Yuqi Zhang, Soontorn Tuntithavornwat, Alexandros Afthinos, Alexander Kiepas, Bhawana Agarwal, Sanjiban Nath, John J. Jamieson, Yi Zuo, Daniel Habib, Pei-Hsun Wu, Stuart S. Martin, Sharon Gerecht, Luo Gu, John D. Lewis, Petr Kalab, Peter Friedl, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02269-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02269-9","url":null,"abstract":"Cell migration in mechanically confined environments is a crucial step of metastatic cancer progression. Nonetheless, the molecular components and processes mediating such behaviour are still not fully understood. Here we demonstrate that a pool of the scaffolding protein anillin and its cofactor Ect2, which are both predominantly nuclear proteins and critical mediators of cytokinesis, is present in the cytoplasm of multiple interphase cell types that promote confined cell migration. Confined migration in biomimetic microfluidic models triggers the actomyosin-binding-dependent recruitment of anillin to the plasma membrane at the poles of migrating cells in a manner that scales with microenvironmental stiffness and confinement. The guanine nucleotide exchange activity of Ect2 is required for its RhoA-GTPase-mediated activation of myosin II at the cell poles, enhancing invasion, bleb-based migration and extravasation. Confinement-induced nuclear envelope rupture further amplifies this process due to the release of further anillin and Ect2 into the cytoplasm. Overall, these results show how Ect2 and anillin cooperate to mediate RhoA/ROCK/myosin II-dependent mechanoadaptation and invasive cancer progression. Cell migration in confined environments is initiated by a cytoplasmic pool of anillin and Ect2 that promotes RhoA/myosin II-mediated activation at the poles of migrating cells, in a process dependent on the extracellular environment stiffness.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 9","pages":"1476-1488"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-025-02269-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144488408","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}
{"title":"Engineering bonding sites enables uniform and robust self-assembled monolayer for stable perovskite solar cells","authors":"Chao Luo, Qisen Zhou, Keli Wang, Xianjin Wang, Jiandong He, Peng Gao, Changling Zhan, Zhuye Bi, Wenpei Li, Yingzhuang Ma, Wei Chen, Yi Hou, Zonghao Liu, Qing Zhao","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02275-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02275-x","url":null,"abstract":"The efficiency of perovskite solar cells has recently been dramatically improved by a self-assembled monolayer (SAM), but forming uniform, dense and especially stable SAM remains a challenge. The hydroxyl groups on indium tin oxide (ITO) serve as the bonding sites for the SAM molecule, directly determining the distribution and anchoring stability of SAM. We developed a solution-based strategy to fully hydroxylate the ITO in as fast as 15 s. Moreover, further hydroxylation etching could also create abundant uncoordinated indium ions on the new exposed ITO surface for the anchoring of SAM by forming coordination bonds. In addition, the rapid hydroxylation etching allows commercial ITO to be directly used to omit the conventional multistep ITO pretreatment. Moreover, hydroxylation etching can also spontaneously form nano-antireflective structures on ITO to improve photon transmission. The versatile bonding site engineering resulted in better SAM anchoring, which delivered efficient perovskite solar cells (power conversion efficiency, 26.6%) that only lose 4% of the initial efficiency after 2,800 h of operation at 65 °C (ISOS-L-2 protocol). Formation of a stable self-assembled monolayer for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells remains a challenge. Here uniform and stable SAM anchoring is achieved on a hydroxylated indium tin oxide surface, leading to highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 8","pages":"1265-1272"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144370842","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 : 2025-06-23DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02264-0
Alexander von Reppert, Matias Bargheer
{"title":"Listening to the silence of quantum processes","authors":"Alexander von Reppert, Matias Bargheer","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02264-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02264-0","url":null,"abstract":"Narrow exciton-polariton resonances in multiple quantum wells enable picosecond ultrasonics to detect coherent acoustic wave packets near the single-phonon quantum limit.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 8","pages":"1158-1159"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340881","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 : 2025-06-23DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02273-z
Zude Shi, Wen Qin, Zhili Hu, Mingyu Ma, Hong Liu, Zhiwen Shu, Yubing Jiang, Hang Xia, Wenyan Shi, Chao Yue Zhang, Xiaoru Sang, Cui Guo, Yunxin Li, Chengzhi Liu, Chengshi Gong, Hong Wang, Song Liu, Levente Tapasztó, Caitian Gao, Fucai Liu, Pengyi Tang, Yuan Liu, Huigao Duan, Erqing Xie, Zhuhua Zhang, Zheng Liu, Yongmin He
{"title":"Sub-2-nm-droplet-driven growth of amorphous metal chalcogenides approaching the single-layer limit","authors":"Zude Shi, Wen Qin, Zhili Hu, Mingyu Ma, Hong Liu, Zhiwen Shu, Yubing Jiang, Hang Xia, Wenyan Shi, Chao Yue Zhang, Xiaoru Sang, Cui Guo, Yunxin Li, Chengzhi Liu, Chengshi Gong, Hong Wang, Song Liu, Levente Tapasztó, Caitian Gao, Fucai Liu, Pengyi Tang, Yuan Liu, Huigao Duan, Erqing Xie, Zhuhua Zhang, Zheng Liu, Yongmin He","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02273-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02273-z","url":null,"abstract":"Atom-thin amorphous materials (for example, amorphous monolayer carbon) offer a designable material platform for fundamental studies of the disorder system, as well as the development of various applications. However, their growth at a single layer remains challenging since their thermodynamically favourable grains are neither two dimensional nor layered. Here we demonstrate the growth of 1-nm-thick, amorphous metal chalcogenides at a wafer scale using a nanodroplet-driven nanoribbon-to-film strategy. Metal clusters are initially liquified into 1–2 nm droplets at 120 °C, and they then orchestrate the growth of amorphous single-layer nanoribbons, which eventually merge into a continuous centimetre-scale film. Phase-field simulations, combined with our characterizations, suggest a non-equilibrium kinetic growth mechanism, which can be applicable to various films, for example, PtSex, IrSex, PdSex and RhSex. The synthesized films exhibit a range of unique properties, including tunable conductivity through disorder modulation, high work functions and remarkable catalytic activity, making them promising candidates for hole-injection contacts in p-type transistors and hydrogen production applications. This work opens a pathway for the synthesis of non-layered materials approaching the single-layer limit. The synthesis of atom-thin amorphous films remains challenging as their thermodynamically favourable grains are neither two dimensional nor layered. Here a droplet-driven nanoribbon-to-film growth strategy is reported to achieve amorphous metal chalcogenides at the single-layer limit.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 8","pages":"1186-1194"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340909","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 : 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02261-3
Manuel Suárez-Rodríguez, Fernando de Juan, Ivo Souza, Marco Gobbi, Fèlix Casanova, Luis E. Hueso
{"title":"Nonlinear transport in non-centrosymmetric systems","authors":"Manuel Suárez-Rodríguez, Fernando de Juan, Ivo Souza, Marco Gobbi, Fèlix Casanova, Luis E. Hueso","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02261-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02261-3","url":null,"abstract":"Ohm’s law has been a cornerstone of electronics since its experimental discovery. This law establishes that, in a conductive system, the voltage is directly proportional to the current. Even when time-reversal symmetry is disrupted, leading to the emergence of magnetoresistance and Hall effects, the linear relationship between voltage and current remains intact. However, recent experiments have demonstrated a breakdown of Ohm’s law in non-centrosymmetric structures. In these systems, nonlinear transport effects are permitted with quadratic scaling between voltages and currents. Here we review the main demonstrations of nonlinear transport in non-centrosymmetric systems, analysing the connection between nonlinear behaviour and the system’s symmetry. We also investigate the microscopic mechanisms driving these effects, such as Berry curvature dipole and Berry connection polarizability. Finally, we highlight potential applications of nonlinear transport in spintronics and energy harvesting. There has been substantial progress in observing and understanding nonlinear transport properties of non-centrosymmetric materials in recent years. This Review surveys the interplay between symmetry and nonlinear phenomena, and how nonlinear transport probes quantum properties of solids. The authors also highlight the potential applications of these nonlinear transport effects in fields such as spintronics, orbitronics and energy harvesting.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 7","pages":"1005-1018"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144328751","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}