Nature MaterialsPub Date : 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02248-0
Zhengran Wu, Chunhong Li, Xiaolei Hu, Kun Chen, Xiang Guo, Yan Li, Ling Lu
{"title":"Hyper-gap transparent conductor","authors":"Zhengran Wu, Chunhong Li, Xiaolei Hu, Kun Chen, Xiang Guo, Yan Li, Ling Lu","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02248-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02248-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An elusive conductor with perfect optical transparency holds revolutionary potential for fields such as optoelectronics and nanophotonics. Such a hypothetical metal would possess a spectral gap<sup>1,2</sup>—a ‘hyper-gap’—in its absorption spectrum, separating the intraband and interband absorptions, in which optical losses could vanish. Currently, this property is achievable only within the bandgap of insulators. However, realizing such a hyper-gap metal demands an exotic electronic structure in which the conducting bands have a bandwidth narrower than their energy separations from the remaining electronic states. Here we present such a hyper-gap in a family of organic metals—the Fabre charge-transfer salts<sup>3</sup>—through first-principles predictions coupled with both electrical and optical measurements. A transparent window, spanning from red to near-infrared wavelengths, is identified in bulk single crystals that remain transmissive over a thickness of 30 µm. The corresponding absorption coefficient is the lowest among known stoichiometric metals, rivalling thin films of transparent conductive oxides. This finding introduces a path, beyond traditional doping strategies in insulators, to combine electronic conduction and optical transparency.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"152 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144153315","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 : 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02215-9
{"title":"Extracellular piezoelectric nanostickers promote neuronal differentiation","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02215-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02215-9","url":null,"abstract":"Treatments for traumatic brain injury are lacking owing to the limited regenerative capacity of neurons. Now, ultrasound-activated piezoelectric nanostickers that attach to cell membranes are shown to promote the neuronal differentiation of transplanted stem cells, leading to substantial brain tissue repair in rats with traumatic brain injury.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144122864","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 : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02235-5
Atsushi Wakamiya, Richard Murdey
{"title":"High-performance polymers for perovskite photovoltaics","authors":"Atsushi Wakamiya, Richard Murdey","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02235-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02235-5","url":null,"abstract":"A carbon–nitrogen cross-coupling polymerization method is developed to precisely synthesize functional polyarylamines at large scale, resulting in perovskite solar cells with promising efficiencies and stability.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144113778","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 : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02252-4
Ayshi Mukherjee, Surat Layek, Subhajit Sinha, Ritajit Kundu, Alisha H. Marchawala, Mahesh Hingankar, Joydip Sarkar, L. D. Varma Sangani, Heena Agarwal, Sanat Ghosh, Aya Batoul Tazi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Abhay N. Pasupathy, Arijit Kundu, Mandar M. Deshmukh
{"title":"Superconducting magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene with competing magnetic order and moiré inhomogeneities","authors":"Ayshi Mukherjee, Surat Layek, Subhajit Sinha, Ritajit Kundu, Alisha H. Marchawala, Mahesh Hingankar, Joydip Sarkar, L. D. Varma Sangani, Heena Agarwal, Sanat Ghosh, Aya Batoul Tazi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Abhay N. Pasupathy, Arijit Kundu, Mandar M. Deshmukh","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02252-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02252-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The microscopic mechanism of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene is poorly understood. We show direct evidence for an in-plane magnetic order competing with the superconducting state motivated by theoretical proposals. We use two complementary electrical transport measurements. First, in statistically significant switching events in the superconducting state of magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene, we observe non-monotonic and hysteretic responses in the switching distributions as a function of temperature and in-plane magnetic field. Additionally, the system behaves like a network of Josephson junctions due to lattice-relaxation-induced moiré inhomogeneity. Second, in normal regions doped slightly away from the superconducting regime, hysteretic and linear positive magnetoresistance with the in-plane magnetic field shows evidence for an in-plane magnetic order. Furthermore, we estimate superfluid stiffness <i>J</i><sub>s</sub> ≈ 0.15 K with strong temperature dependence and show a broadened Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition. Our observations may constrain possible intervalley-coherent magnetic orders and the superconductivity arising from its fluctuations.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144113722","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 : 2025-05-21DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02247-1
Damiano Pasini
{"title":"Stiff yet stretchy dissipative metamaterials","authors":"Damiano Pasini","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02247-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02247-1","url":null,"abstract":"Hydrogels inspire a class of double-network mechanical metamaterials with an unprecedented combination of stiffness, stretchability and energy dissipation.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144104467","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 : 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02238-2
Zhuo Yu, Baltej Singh, Yue Yu, Linda F. Nazar
{"title":"Suppressing argyrodite oxidation by tuning the host structure for high-areal-capacity all-solid-state lithium–sulfur batteries","authors":"Zhuo Yu, Baltej Singh, Yue Yu, Linda F. Nazar","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02238-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02238-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Argyrodite (Li<sub>6</sub>PS<sub>5</sub>Cl) is a promising electrolyte for high-performance solid-state lithium–sulfur batteries (SSSBs), which operate on the reversible conversion of S↔Li<sub>2</sub>S. However, argyrodite is electrochemically decomposed above 2.5 V versus Li<sup>+</sup>/Li on charge, because free S<sup>2−</sup> ions in the lattice are oxidized to sulfur at a similar potential as Li<sub>2</sub>S. Here we demonstrate that creating a strong interaction between the Li ions in argyrodite and the sulfur host synergistically suppresses the oxidation of argyrodite by inhibiting the extraction of Li<sup>+</sup> in the initial step. A carbon nitride/N-doped graphene host serves as a proof of concept to demonstrate this effect. Additionally, its moderate electron transport enables SSSB operation and constrains electron mobility at the argyrodite interface. Consequently, SSSBs utilizing this host deliver excellent rate capability and stable long-term cycling compared with non-polar carbon materials. An areal capacity of 2 mAh cm<sup>−2</sup> was achieved over 230 cycles at room temperature, whereas a high capacity of 11.3 mAh cm<sup>−2</sup> was obtained with 90% retention at 60 °C. The descriptors presented here could enrich the understanding of solid electrolyte redox activities and guide interface and materials design in SSSBs.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"199 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144097305","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 : 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02233-7
Jinhyuk Jang, Yeongrok Jin, Yeon-Seo Nam, Heung-Sik Park, Jaegyu Kim, Kyeong Tae Kang, Yerin So, Jiwoung Choi, Youngchang Choi, Jaechan Shim, Panithan Sriboriboon, Dong Kyu Lee, Kyoung-June Go, Gi-Yeop Kim, Seungbum Hong, Jun Hee Lee, Daesu Lee, Myung-Geun Han, Junwoo Son, Yunseok Kim, Hiroki Taniguchi, Seokhyeong Kang, Jang-Sik Lee, He Tian, Chan-Ho Yang, Yimei Zhu, Sang-Wook Cheong, Woo Seok Choi, Jaekwang Lee, Si-Young Choi
{"title":"Sub-unit-cell-segmented ferroelectricity in brownmillerite oxides by phonon decoupling","authors":"Jinhyuk Jang, Yeongrok Jin, Yeon-Seo Nam, Heung-Sik Park, Jaegyu Kim, Kyeong Tae Kang, Yerin So, Jiwoung Choi, Youngchang Choi, Jaechan Shim, Panithan Sriboriboon, Dong Kyu Lee, Kyoung-June Go, Gi-Yeop Kim, Seungbum Hong, Jun Hee Lee, Daesu Lee, Myung-Geun Han, Junwoo Son, Yunseok Kim, Hiroki Taniguchi, Seokhyeong Kang, Jang-Sik Lee, He Tian, Chan-Ho Yang, Yimei Zhu, Sang-Wook Cheong, Woo Seok Choi, Jaekwang Lee, Si-Young Choi","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02233-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02233-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ultimate scaling limit in ferroelectric switching has been attracting broad attention in the fields of materials science and nanoelectronics. Despite immense efforts to scale down ferroelectric features, however, only few materials have been shown to exhibit ferroelectricity at the unit-cell level. Here we report a controllable unit-cell-scale domain in brownmillerite oxides consisting of alternating octahedral/tetrahedral layers. By combining atomic-scale imaging and in situ transmission electron microscopy, we directly probed sub-unit-cell-segmented ferroelectricity and investigated their switching characteristics. First-principles calculations confirm that the phonon modes related to oxygen octahedra are decoupled from those of the oxygen tetrahedra in brownmillerite oxides, and such localized oxygen tetrahedral phonons stabilize the sub-unit-cell-segmented ferroelectric domain. The unit-cell-wide ferroelectricity observed in our study could provide opportunities to design high-density memory devices using phonon decoupling.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144097306","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 : 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02236-4
Can Onur Avci
{"title":"Unidirectional magnetoresistance goes perpendicular","authors":"Can Onur Avci","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02236-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02236-4","url":null,"abstract":"The demonstration of unconventional unidirectional magnetoresistance in WTe2/Cr2Ge2Te6 bilayers reveals a pathway for electrical readout of perpendicular magnetic states, advancing prospects for two-terminal spintronic memory devices.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144097218","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 : 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02245-3
Ying Liu, Huazhang Zhang, Konstantin Shapovalov, Ranming Niu, Julie M. Cairney, Xiaozhou Liao, Krystian Roleder, Andrzej Majchrowski, Jordi Arbiol, Philippe Ghosez, Gustau Catalan
{"title":"Vortices and antivortices in antiferroelectric PbZrO3","authors":"Ying Liu, Huazhang Zhang, Konstantin Shapovalov, Ranming Niu, Julie M. Cairney, Xiaozhou Liao, Krystian Roleder, Andrzej Majchrowski, Jordi Arbiol, Philippe Ghosez, Gustau Catalan","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02245-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02245-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ferroelectric materials are characterized by a parallel arrangement of electric dipoles, but at the nanoscale they can present vortices and other non-trivial topological structures<sup>1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9</sup> that combine small size and topological protection, rendering them functionally attractive<sup>10,11,12,13</sup>. The driving force for the appearance of vortices in ferroelectrics is the need to minimize the depolarizing fields at interfaces<sup>3,4,5,14</sup>; by making the polarization rotate, depolarization fields vanish<sup>4,5,8,9</sup>. Antiferroelectrics, by contrast, are defined by an antiparallel arrangement of electric dipoles<sup>15</sup>. A priori, therefore, they lack the depolarization fields that drive the appearance of non-trivial topologies in ferroelectrics. At the atomic scale of the dipoles, however, we find that polar discontinuities can still happen, driving the appearance of topological singularities at ferroelastic domain walls.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144097317","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}