Nature MaterialsPub Date : 2025-07-11DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02286-8
Taketo Handa, Xiaoyang Zhu
{"title":"Long-lived hot carriers in a polymeric semiconductor","authors":"Taketo Handa, Xiaoyang Zhu","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02286-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02286-8","url":null,"abstract":"Hot carriers with high mobility and long diffusion length are observed in a two-dimensional conjugated coordination polymer.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 9","pages":"1333-1334"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144603385","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 : 2025-07-09DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02263-1
Jason S. Kahn, Brian Minevich, Aaron Michelson, Hamed Emamy, Jiahao Wu, Huajian Ji, Alexia Yun, Kim Kisslinger, Shuting Xiang, Nanfang Yu, Sanat K. Kumar, Oleg Gang
{"title":"Encoding hierarchical 3D architecture through inverse design of programmable bonds","authors":"Jason S. Kahn, Brian Minevich, Aaron Michelson, Hamed Emamy, Jiahao Wu, Huajian Ji, Alexia Yun, Kim Kisslinger, Shuting Xiang, Nanfang Yu, Sanat K. Kumar, Oleg Gang","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02263-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02263-1","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to fabricate materials and devices at small scales by design has resulted in tremendous technological progress. However, the need for engineered three-dimensional (3D) nanoscale materials requires new strategies for organizing nanocomponents. Here we demonstrate an inverse design approach for the assembly of nanoparticles into hierarchically ordered 3D organizations using DNA voxels with directional, addressable bonds. By identifying intrinsic symmetries in repeating mesoscale structural motifs, we prescribe a set of voxels, termed a mesovoxel, that are assembled into target 3D crystals. The relationship between different degrees of encoded information used for voxel bonds and the fidelity of assembly is investigated using experimental and computational methods. We apply this assembly strategy to create periodic 3D nanoparticle ordered organizations, including structures with low-dimensional elements, helical motifs, a nanoscale analogue of a face-centred perovskite crystal and a distributed Bragg reflector based on a crystal with plasmonic and photonic length-scale regimes. An inverse design strategy is reported for the organization of nanoscale matter using DNA-programmable bonds and the fabrication of hierarchically ordered 3D assemblies.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 8","pages":"1273-1282"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-025-02263-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144586420","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":"Homoepitaxial growth of large-area rhombohedral-stacked MoS2","authors":"Lei Liu, Taotao Li, Xiaoshu Gong, Hengdi Wen, Liqi Zhou, Mingwei Feng, Haotian Zhang, Ningmu Zou, Shengqiang Wu, Yuhao Li, Shitong Zhu, Fulin Zhuo, Xilu Zou, Zehua Hu, Zhiyuan Ding, Susu Fang, Weigao Xu, Xingang Hou, Kai Zhang, Gen Long, Lei Tang, Yucheng Jiang, Zhihao Yu, Liang Ma, Jinlan Wang, Xinran Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02274-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02274-y","url":null,"abstract":"Interlayer stacking is an important degree of freedom to tune the properties of two-dimensional materials and offers enormous opportunities for designing functional devices. As a classic example, rhombohedral-stacked (3R) two-dimensional materials exhibit ferroelectricity and optical nonlinearity that are non-existent in naturally abundant hexagonal-stacked (2H) counterparts. However, the ability to grow stacking-controlled large-area films remains challenging due to the thermodynamic competition of different polytypes. Here we report the chemical vapour deposition growth of two-inch wafer-scale 3R-MoS2 films with high phase purity by homoepitaxy on top of a crystalline monolayer MoS2. A defect-promoted nucleation mechanism was proposed, in which Mo-substituted sulfur vacancy is identified as one of the possible defects promoting 3R stacking. We fabricate ferroelectric semiconductor field-effect transistors with 3R-MoS2 channels and demonstrate non-volatile memory characteristics. The control of interlayer stacking is an essential step towards the large-scale production of two-dimensional materials for multifunctional integration. Wafer-scale 3R-MoS2 with high phase purity is achieved through a homoepitaxy strategy, which demonstrates ferroelectricity and holds promise for multifunctional integration.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 8","pages":"1195-1202"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144586422","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 : 2025-07-09DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02282-y
Jannis Bensmann, Robert Schmidt, Kirill O. Nikolaev, Dimitri Raskhodchikov, Shraddha Choudhary, Richa Bhardwaj, Shabnam Taheriniya, Akhil Varri, Sven Niehues, Ahmad El Kadri, Johannes Kern, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Sergej O. Demokritov, Vladislav E. Demidov, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Rudolf Bratschitsch
{"title":"Dispersion-tunable low-loss implanted spin-wave waveguides for large magnonic networks","authors":"Jannis Bensmann, Robert Schmidt, Kirill O. Nikolaev, Dimitri Raskhodchikov, Shraddha Choudhary, Richa Bhardwaj, Shabnam Taheriniya, Akhil Varri, Sven Niehues, Ahmad El Kadri, Johannes Kern, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Sergej O. Demokritov, Vladislav E. Demidov, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Rudolf Bratschitsch","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02282-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02282-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Magnonic networks based on magnetic insulators are poised to revolutionize information processing due to their energy efficiency. However, current experimental realizations of spin-wave waveguides, which constitute the building blocks of such a network, suffer from limited spin-wave propagation lengths and inefficient dispersion tuning capabilities. Here we realize low-loss spin-wave waveguides in yttrium iron garnet thin films using silicon ion implantation, which creates an amorphous waveguide cladding. We measure spin-wave decay lengths exceeding 100 µm in submicrometre waveguides. The dispersion of the waveguides can be continuously tuned due to the precise and localized ion implantation, which sets them apart from commonly etched waveguides. Using our maskless waveguide definition, we demonstrate a large-scale magnonic network consisting of 198 crossings, paving the way for wafer-scale magnonic integrated circuits.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144586421","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 : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02283-x
Atsutomo Nakamura, Yan Li
{"title":"Plastic processing of bulk semiconductors","authors":"Atsutomo Nakamura, Yan Li","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02283-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02283-x","url":null,"abstract":"Bulk inorganic semiconductors can show remarkable plasticity and extensibility, defying their inherent brittleness and enabling opportunities in advanced semiconductor manufacturing and processing.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 10","pages":"1505-1506"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144577812","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 : 2025-07-07DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02301-y
Gabe Guo, Tristan Luca Saidi, Maxwell W. Terban, Michele Valsecchi, Simon J. L. Billinge, Hod Lipson
{"title":"Author Correction: Ab initio structure solutions from nanocrystalline powder diffraction data via diffusion models","authors":"Gabe Guo, Tristan Luca Saidi, Maxwell W. Terban, Michele Valsecchi, Simon J. L. Billinge, Hod Lipson","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02301-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02301-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 9","pages":"1502-1502"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-025-02301-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144568371","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 : 2025-07-06DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02276-w
Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Cécile X. Yu, Barnaby van Straaten, Alberto Tosato, Valentin John, Davide Degli Esposti, Asser Elsayed, Davide Costa, Stefan D. Oosterhout, Nico W. Hendrickx, Menno Veldhorst, Francesco Borsoi, Giordano Scappucci
{"title":"Exploiting strained epitaxial germanium for scaling low-noise spin qubits at the micrometre scale","authors":"Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Cécile X. Yu, Barnaby van Straaten, Alberto Tosato, Valentin John, Davide Degli Esposti, Asser Elsayed, Davide Costa, Stefan D. Oosterhout, Nico W. Hendrickx, Menno Veldhorst, Francesco Borsoi, Giordano Scappucci","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02276-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02276-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Disorder in the heterogeneous material stack of semiconductor spin qubit systems introduces noise that compromises quantum information processing, posing a challenge to coherently control large-scale quantum devices. Here we exploit low-disorder epitaxial, strained quantum wells in Ge/SiGe heterostructures grown on Ge wafers to comprehensively probe the noise properties of complex micrometre-scale devices, comprising quantum dots arranged in a two-dimensional array. We demonstrate an average low charge noise across different locations on the wafer, providing a benchmark for quantum confined holes. We then establish spin qubit control and extend our investigation from electrical to magnetic noise through spin echo measurements. Exploiting dynamical decoupling sequences, we quantify the power spectral density components arising from the hyperfine interaction with <sup>73</sup>Ge spinful isotopes and identify coherence modulations associated with the interaction with the <sup>29</sup>Si nuclear spin bath near the Ge quantum well, underscoring the need for full isotopic purification of the qubit host environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144566653","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 : 2025-07-03DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0
Matthew K. Horton, Patrick Huck, Ruo Xi Yang, Jason M. Munro, Shyam Dwaraknath, Alex M. Ganose, Ryan S. Kingsbury, Mingjian Wen, Jimmy X. Shen, Tyler S. Mathis, Aaron D. Kaplan, Karlo Berket, Janosh Riebesell, Janine George, Andrew S. Rosen, Evan W. C. Spotte-Smith, Matthew J. McDermott, Orion A. Cohen, Alex Dunn, Matthew C. Kuner, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Guido Petretto, David Waroquiers, Sinead M. Griffin, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Daryl C. Chrzan, Mark Asta, Geoffroy Hautier, Shreyas Cholia, Gerbrand Ceder, Shyue Ping Ong, Anubhav Jain, Kristin A. Persson
{"title":"Accelerated data-driven materials science with the Materials Project","authors":"Matthew K. Horton, Patrick Huck, Ruo Xi Yang, Jason M. Munro, Shyam Dwaraknath, Alex M. Ganose, Ryan S. Kingsbury, Mingjian Wen, Jimmy X. Shen, Tyler S. Mathis, Aaron D. Kaplan, Karlo Berket, Janosh Riebesell, Janine George, Andrew S. Rosen, Evan W. C. Spotte-Smith, Matthew J. McDermott, Orion A. Cohen, Alex Dunn, Matthew C. Kuner, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Guido Petretto, David Waroquiers, Sinead M. Griffin, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Daryl C. Chrzan, Mark Asta, Geoffroy Hautier, Shreyas Cholia, Gerbrand Ceder, Shyue Ping Ong, Anubhav Jain, Kristin A. Persson","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0","url":null,"abstract":"The Materials Project was launched formally in 2011 to drive materials discovery forwards through high-throughput computation and open data. More than a decade later, the Materials Project has become an indispensable tool used by more than 600,000 materials researchers around the world. This Perspective describes how the Materials Project, as a data platform and a software ecosystem, has helped to shape research in data-driven materials science. We cover how sustainable software and computational methods have accelerated materials design while becoming more open source and collaborative in nature. Next, we present cases where the Materials Project was used to understand and discover functional materials. We then describe our efforts to meet the needs of an expanding user base, through technical infrastructure updates ranging from data architecture and cloud resources to interactive web applications. Finally, we discuss opportunities to better aid the research community, with the vision that more accessible and easy-to-understand materials data will result in democratized materials knowledge and an increasingly collaborative community. Materials design and informatics have become increasingly prominent over the past several decades. Using the Materials Project as an example, this Perspective discusses how properties are calculated and curated, how this knowledge can be used for materials discovery, and the challenges in modelling complex material systems or managing software architecture.","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"24 10","pages":"1522-1532"},"PeriodicalIF":38.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144547338","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 : 2025-07-02DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02279-7
Ke Chen, Chao Yu, Xiaowei Wang, Shenghan Zhou, Li Wang, Yusong Qu, Aiwei Wang, Fan Xiao, Zhenjun Li, Chi Li, Jiayu Dai, Xiangang Wan, Ruifeng Lu, Qing Dai
{"title":"A carbon-nanotube-based electron source with a 0.3-eV energy spread and an unconventional time delay","authors":"Ke Chen, Chao Yu, Xiaowei Wang, Shenghan Zhou, Li Wang, Yusong Qu, Aiwei Wang, Fan Xiao, Zhenjun Li, Chi Li, Jiayu Dai, Xiangang Wan, Ruifeng Lu, Qing Dai","doi":"10.1038/s41563-025-02279-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02279-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Conventional metal-tip-based laser-driven electron sources are normally constrained by a trade-off between energy spread and pulse width due to optical-field-induced free electron acceleration. This makes it challenging to surpass the current state-of-the-art, which exhibits energy spreads exceeding 1 eV and pulse durations of hundreds of femtoseconds. Here we report an unconventional delayed emission from a one-dimensional carbon-nanotube-based electron source. By utilizing a special pump–probe approach, we apply 7-fs laser pulses to the carbon-nanotube emitters and observe free electron emission tens of femtoseconds after the pulse. This delayed emission results in a substantially reduced energy spread of approximately 0.3 eV and an electron pulse width of about 13 fs. Through time-dependent density functional theory calculations, we find that the delayed emission is driven by the interplay of collective oscillations and electron–electron interactions. Our results may provide a promising technology for developing cutting-edge ultrafast electron sources.</p>","PeriodicalId":19058,"journal":{"name":"Nature Materials","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":41.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533185","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}