Nature MaterialsPub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02333-4
Lilia Boeri, Alexander P. Drozdov, Vadim Ksenofontov, Feng Du, Vasily S. Minkov, Ulrich Pöschl
{"title":"Mikhail Eremets (1949–2024)","authors":"Lilia Boeri, Alexander P. Drozdov, Vadim Ksenofontov, Feng Du, Vasily S. Minkov, Ulrich Pöschl","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02333-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02333-4","url":null,"abstract":"Pioneer of high-pressure physics and superconductivity.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 10","pages":"1504-1504"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025976","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 : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02349-w
Hossein Taghinejad, James G. Analytis
{"title":"Towards spin-wave integrated circuits","authors":"Hossein Taghinejad, James G. Analytis","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02349-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02349-w","url":null,"abstract":"Borrowing from optical fibre design, ion implantation enables index-contrast guiding of spin waves, opening new opportunities in wave-based computing.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025973","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 : 2025-09-09DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02342-3
Eric Shen, Oleg Gang
{"title":"Capturing the dance of nanoparticles in crystals","authors":"Eric Shen, Oleg Gang","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02342-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02342-3","url":null,"abstract":"Phonon dynamics of self-assembled two-dimensional nanoparticle crystals is resolved by liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 10","pages":"1513-1514"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017337","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 : 2025-09-09DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02335-2
Nicolas Bergeal
{"title":"Frustration under the microscope","authors":"Nicolas Bergeal","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02335-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02335-2","url":null,"abstract":"By tuning and mapping Josephson currents at the atomic scale, researchers uncover how competing superconducting phases in FeSe interfere, revealing the fingerprints of s±-wave pairing and frustrated Josephson coupling.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017335","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 : 2025-09-08DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02339-y
Shuo Wang, Yan Wang, Zhaofeng Ouyang, Shitao Geng, Qianyun Chen, Xiaoju Zhao, Bin Yuan, Xiao Zhang, Shanshan Tang, Qiuchen Xu, Peining Chen, Huisheng Peng, Hao Sun
{"title":"Molecular engineering of two-dimensional polyamide interphase layers for anode-free lithium metal batteries","authors":"Shuo Wang, Yan Wang, Zhaofeng Ouyang, Shitao Geng, Qianyun Chen, Xiaoju Zhao, Bin Yuan, Xiao Zhang, Shanshan Tang, Qiuchen Xu, Peining Chen, Huisheng Peng, Hao Sun","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02339-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02339-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Anode-free lithium (Li) metal batteries are promising candidates for high-performance energy storage applications. Nonetheless, their translation into practical applications has been hindered by the slow kinetics and reversibility of Li plating and stripping on copper foils. Here we report a two-dimensional polyamide (2DPA)/lithiated Nafion (LN) interphase layer for anode-free Li metal batteries. Through molecular engineering, we construct a 2DPA layer with a large conjugated structure and Li-ion adsorption groups that show efficient adsorption, distribution and nucleation of Li ions. 2DPA molecules assembled into two-dimensional sheets are further incorporated with LN to create an ultrathin interphase layer with high-rate, high-capacity Li plating/stripping. These 2DPA/LN layers have higher rate capabilities and maximal energy and power densities compared with alternative polymer interphase layers, enabling the fabrication of an anode-free pouch cell with high performance. Overall, our interphase engineering approach is a promising tool to push the translation of anode-free Li metal batteries based on two-dimensional polymer interphase layers into practical devices, and enable the fabrication of energy storage technologies with high energy and power densities.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"103 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145009066","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 : 2025-09-08DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02348-x
Zhengxing Peng, Masoud Ghasemi, Jasper J. Michels, Harald Ade
{"title":"Re-entrant phase behaviour of organic semiconductors","authors":"Zhengxing Peng, Masoud Ghasemi, Jasper J. Michels, Harald Ade","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02348-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02348-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The number of polymeric and small-molecular acceptors for organic photovoltaics has exploded in the past decade. As a result, physical insights and efforts aiming at elucidating the coupling between composition and behaviour are required more than ever. Here we present an encompassing study into the phase behaviour of 55 polymer:small-molecular acceptor blends, pivotal in determining device performance and stability. Many of these exhibit non-trivial behaviour, which cannot be understood by conventional mixing theory. Interestingly, the phase diagrams are subject to variations in glass transition temperature, strongly suggesting an important role of configurational entropy. We present an extended model for the mixing free energy, accounting for a temperature dependence of free volume and configurational freedom. The phase behaviour can be roughly categorized in terms of the ratio of the monomeric volumes of the individual components. The model qualitatively reproduces all experimental observations and poses a viable starting point for assisting development.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145009010","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 : 2025-09-05DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02329-0
Donia W. Ahmed, Matthew L. Tan, Yuchen Liu, Jackson Gabbard, Esther Gao, Avinava Roy, Michael M. Hu, Firaol S. Midekssa, Miriam Stevens, Fulei Wuchu, Minal Nenwani, Jingyi Xia, Adam Abraham, Deepak Nagrath, Lin Han, Rachel L. Zemans, Brendon M. Baker, Claudia Loebel
{"title":"Local photocrosslinking of native tissue matrix regulates lung epithelial cell mechanosensing and function","authors":"Donia W. Ahmed, Matthew L. Tan, Yuchen Liu, Jackson Gabbard, Esther Gao, Avinava Roy, Michael M. Hu, Firaol S. Midekssa, Miriam Stevens, Fulei Wuchu, Minal Nenwani, Jingyi Xia, Adam Abraham, Deepak Nagrath, Lin Han, Rachel L. Zemans, Brendon M. Baker, Claudia Loebel","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02329-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02329-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Within most tissues, the extracellular microenvironment provides mechanical cues that guide cell fate and function. Changes in the extracellular matrix such as aberrant deposition, densification and increased crosslinking are hallmarks of late-stage fibrotic diseases that often lead to organ dysfunction. Biomaterials have been widely used to mimic the mechanical properties of the fibrotic matrix and study pathophysiologic cell function. However, the initiation of fibrosis has largely been overlooked, due to challenges in recapitulating early stages of disease progression within the native extracellular microenvironment. Here, using visible-light-mediated photochemistry, we induced local crosslinking and stiffening of extracellular matrix proteins within ex vivo mouse and human lung tissue. In ex vivo lung tissue of epithelial cell lineage-traced mice, local matrix crosslinking mimicked early fibrotic lesions that increased alveolar epithelial cell mechanosensing, differentiation, and nascent protein deposition and remodelling. However, the inhibition of cytoskeletal tension, mechanosensitive signalling pathways or integrin engagement reduced epithelial cell spreading and differentiation. Our findings emphasize the role of local extracellular matrix crosslinking and nascent protein deposition in early stage tissue fibrosis and have implications for ex vivo disease modelling and applications to other tissues.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995805","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":"Magnetically actuated multimodal bioelectronic catheter for minimally invasive surgery and sensing","authors":"Jingbo Yang, Yuanxi Zhang, Zhengjie Liu, Shuang Huang, Xinshuo Huang, Yunuo Wang, Mingqiang Li, Shantao Zheng, Fuqian Chen, Jing Liu, Yu Tao, Tong Wu, Lizhi Xu, Huijiuan Chen, Lelun Jiang, Xi Xie","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02340-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02340-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Small-scale magnetically actuated catheters capable of remote active navigation have promising applications in minimally invasive surgeries. However, existing fabrication techniques hinder their integration with multimodal sensing components, especially since embedding rigid electronic components within the catheters may diminish their flexibility and controllability. Here we report a magnetically actuated bioelectronic catheter with the in situ multiplexed biosensing of multiple types of metabolite or ion simultaneously. We use four-dimensional multichannel printing to fabricate a flexible multichannel ferromagnetic catheter with a multichannel-sheath structure, comprising six liquid metal microchannels embedded in a polymer matrix for electrical conduction. The catheter can navigate through blood vessels and intestines using magnetically controlled active steering, being used for renal vein or intestines interventional surgeries and in situ multimetabolite sensing on rabbit and porcine models. Overall, the reported magnetically actuated bioelectronic catheter is a promising tool for remotely controlled biosensing and therapies on hard-to-reach lesions during minimally invasive surgery.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995806","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 : 2025-09-05DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02352-1
{"title":"Accelerating development of polycyclic heteroaromatic emitters with small singlet–triplet energy gaps","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02352-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02352-1","url":null,"abstract":"A simple physical model based on electronic interactions between excited configurations enables the quick and reliable prediction of singlet–triplet energy gaps in polycyclic heteroaromatic emitters. Guided by this model, organic emitters with small singlet–triplet energy gaps can be designed for applications in organic light-emitting diodes with high efficiency and colour purity.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 10","pages":"1520-1521"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995655","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 : 2025-09-04DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02344-1
Hanqing Zhao, Ivan I. Smalyukh
{"title":"Space-time crystals from particle-like topological solitons","authors":"Hanqing Zhao, Ivan I. Smalyukh","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02344-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02344-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Time crystals are unexpected states of matter that spontaneously break time-translation symmetry either in a discrete or continuous manner. However, spatially mesoscale space-time crystals that break both space and time symmetries have not been reported. Here we report a continuous space-time crystal in a nematic liquid crystal driven by ambient-power, constant-intensity unstructured light. Our numerically constructed four-dimensional configurations exhibit good agreement with these experimental findings. Although meeting the established criteria to identify time-crystalline order, both experiments and computer simulations reveal a space-time crystallization phase formed by particle-like topological solitons. The robustness against temporal perturbations and spatiotemporal dislocations shows the stability and rigidity of the studied space-time crystals, which relates to their locally topological nature and many-body interactions between emergent spontaneously twisted, particle-like solitonic building blocks. Their potential technological utility includes optical devices, photonic space-time crystal generators, telecommunications and anti-counterfeiting designs, among others.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144987531","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}