Nature MaterialsPub Date : 2025-08-14DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02306-7
Hui Wang, Timothy C. Ralph, Jelmer J. Renema, Chao-Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan
{"title":"Scalable photonic quantum technologies","authors":"Hui Wang, Timothy C. Ralph, Jelmer J. Renema, Chao-Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02306-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02306-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Photonic quantum technologies are now progressing from demonstrations of fundamental phenomena to systems of sufficient scale and quality to enable practical applications with quantum advantage in communications, computation and metrology. Here we review recent advances in quantum optics that have led to the emergence of such scalable quantum technologies, and outline the road ahead to more general applications with greater potential impact. We first focus on the components that support various photonic quantum applications, including quantum light sources, linear-optical networks and detectors. We go on to discuss recent experimental demonstrations of quantum communication, quantum computation and simulation, and quantum metrology using photons. Finally, an overview is provided on the manner in which photons fit within both the opportunities and challenges of implementing space-to-ground quantum internet, universal quantum computing and quantum precision measurement.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"232 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144840211","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 : 2025-08-14DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02285-9
{"title":"Albumin-coated lipid nanoparticles are effective delivery systems for mRNA vaccines","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02285-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02285-9","url":null,"abstract":"An albumin-recruiting lipid nanoparticle formulation promotes lymphatic drainage while avoiding liver accumulation. In preclinical models of cancers and infectious diseases, mRNA vaccines prepared from this lipid nanoparticle platform elicit robust immune responses and achieve remarkable efficacy.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144840206","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 : 2025-08-14DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02322-7
Meng Wang, Fengren Cao, Linxing Meng, Min Wang, Liang Li
{"title":"Direct integration of optoelectronic arrays with arbitrary non-developable structures","authors":"Meng Wang, Fengren Cao, Linxing Meng, Min Wang, Liang Li","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02322-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02322-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The extension of optoelectronic devices from planar to non-developable structures has led to remarkable success in bionics, optical imaging and soft electronics. However, non-developable optoelectronic devices are achieved mainly via physical deformations and limited to a few geometries. Here we report a self-assembly perovskite strategy for integrating optoelectronic arrays with arbitrary non-developable structures. The perovskite films are grown from a rapid nucleation-dominated crystallization driven by the low energy fluctuation of lead iodide solution, where the fluid precursor can be evenly dispersed along non-developable substrates by surface tension and then self-assembles into compact films through gaseous manipulation. The strategy covers arbitrarily shaped substrates with three-dimensional length scales over 10<sup>6</sup> orders of magnitude and enables the unique structural manipulations of photodiode arrays with micrometre precision. As a proof of concept, the theoretical focal surface of a single-lens image system is realized into a non-developable sensor, effectively correcting the off-axis coma aberrations compared with its planar or hemispherical counterpart.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"105 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144840210","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 : 2025-08-11DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02315-6
N. Duane Loh
{"title":"Crystallographic guess-and-check","authors":"N. Duane Loh","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02315-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02315-6","url":null,"abstract":"Machine learning is shown to help solve nanocrystalline structures from broadened powder X-ray diffraction patterns, but the underlying inference remains mathematically challenging.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144813003","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 : 2025-08-08DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02311-w
Kota Tsujikawa, Junji Hyodo, Susumu Fujii, Kazuki Takahashi, Yuto Tomita, Nai Shi, Yasukazu Murakami, Shusuke Kasamatsu, Yoshihiro Yamazaki
{"title":"Mitigating proton trapping in cubic perovskite oxides via ScO6 octahedral networks","authors":"Kota Tsujikawa, Junji Hyodo, Susumu Fujii, Kazuki Takahashi, Yuto Tomita, Nai Shi, Yasukazu Murakami, Shusuke Kasamatsu, Yoshihiro Yamazaki","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02311-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02311-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Advances in electrochemical devices have been primarily driven by the discovery and development of electrolyte materials. Yet the development of high-performance and chemically stable proton-conducting oxide electrolytes remains a challenge due to proton trapping and the resulting trade-offs between ionic carrier concentration and conductivity in doped oxides. Here we demonstrate that cubic perovskite oxides with heavy Sc doping can overcome these limitations. BaSn<sub>0.3</sub>Sc<sub>0.7</sub>O<sub>3–<i>δ</i></sub> and BaTi<sub>0.2</sub>Sc<sub>0.8</sub>O<sub>3–<i>δ</i></sub> are found to exceed the technological threshold of a total proton conductivity of 0.01 S cm<sup>−1</sup> for fuel cell electrolytes at 300 °C. The structural stability of BaSn<sub>0.3</sub>Sc<sub>0.7</sub>O<sub>3–<i>δ</i></sub> is further validated under harsh chemical and fuel cell conditions. Molecular dynamics simulations using a machine learning force field illustrate rapid proton diffusion pathways along the ScO<sub>6</sub> octahedral network, effectively mitigating proton trapping, while protons are preferentially associated with Sc. Lattice softness is proposed as a primary design descriptor for increasing Sc content in perovskite oxides and developing high-performance electrolytes for electrochemical devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144796825","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 : 2025-08-05DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02300-z
Dhwanit R. Dave, Salma Kassem, Maeva Coste, Lele Xu, Mona Tayarani-Najjaran, Darjan Podbevsek, Paola Colon-De Leon, Sheng Zhang, Luis Ortuno Macias, Deborah Sementa, María Pérez-Ferreiro, Nooshin Sadat Ayati, Muniyat A. Choudhury, Kelly Veerasammy, Selma Doganata, Tiffany Zhong, Cory Weng, Jorge Morales, Denize C. Favaro, Mateusz Marianski, So Yeon Ahn, Allie C. Obermeyer, Tong Wang, Tai-De Li, Xi Chen, Raymond Tu, Ye He, Rein V. Ulijn
{"title":"Adaptive peptide dispersions enable drying-induced biomolecule encapsulation","authors":"Dhwanit R. Dave, Salma Kassem, Maeva Coste, Lele Xu, Mona Tayarani-Najjaran, Darjan Podbevsek, Paola Colon-De Leon, Sheng Zhang, Luis Ortuno Macias, Deborah Sementa, María Pérez-Ferreiro, Nooshin Sadat Ayati, Muniyat A. Choudhury, Kelly Veerasammy, Selma Doganata, Tiffany Zhong, Cory Weng, Jorge Morales, Denize C. Favaro, Mateusz Marianski, So Yeon Ahn, Allie C. Obermeyer, Tong Wang, Tai-De Li, Xi Chen, Raymond Tu, Ye He, Rein V. Ulijn","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02300-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02300-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Peptides are promising building blocks of designer materials with wide-ranging applications. These materials are stabilized by directional hydrogen-bonding patterns, giving rise to one-dimensional or two-dimensional assembly. It remains a challenge to mimic biology’s context-adaptive and flexible structures. Here we introduce minimalistic tripeptide sequences that form highly soluble dynamic ensembles through multivalent side-chain interactions. We observe these supramolecular dispersions undergo drying-induced sequential liquid–liquid phase separation followed by solidification, resulting in the formation of films of stiff, densely packed and porous peptide microparticles that can be instantaneously redispersed upon the re-introduction of water. Air-drying of peptide dispersions in the presence of proteins or small-molecule payloads results in efficient encapsulation and the retention of protein stability after redispersion, showing promise for the emulsification, encapsulation, protection and storage of biomacromolecules. The mechanism resembles the protective strategies in natural systems during desiccation, which rely on liquid–liquid phase separation to survive extreme conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"156 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144778597","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 : 2025-08-04DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02308-5
Qingsong Pan, Lei Lu
{"title":"Fatigue in metals and alloys","authors":"Qingsong Pan, Lei Lu","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02308-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02308-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fatigue failure in metals remains a concern across engineering disciplines, substantially influencing the design, reliability and economic viability of essential load-bearing structure components. Despite notable advances in materials science, fatigue-induced failures—particularly in extreme applications such as deep-space exploration—continue to pose challenges owing to their inherent complex and unpredictable nature. This Perspective provides a concise overview of emerging frontiers in improving fatigue resistance, along with key advancements in our understanding of metal fatigue. It also explores current opportunities and challenges, ranging from the development of promising fatigue-resistant materials through spatially heterogeneous composition and microstructure design to innovations in testing methods, characterization techniques, theoretical frameworks and modelling methodologies for metal fatigue.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144769907","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 : 2025-08-04DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02304-9
Paul Stevenson
{"title":"Reconfigurable magnetic order in 2D materials","authors":"Paul Stevenson","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02304-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02304-9","url":null,"abstract":"Layer-dependent magnetic behaviour is used to realize reconfigurable exchange bias in a 2D antiferromagnet.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"217 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144769903","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}