{"title":"Using the moisture in our midst","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00735-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00735-5","url":null,"abstract":"Sorbent materials that capture and release water molecules are key to technologies that turn the Earth’s ambient moisture into drinkable water and energy.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"9 10","pages":"669-670"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-024-00735-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142383551","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}
Ziyi Xie, Dan Liu, Can Gao, Huanli Dong, Wenping Hu
{"title":"High-mobility emissive organic semiconductors: an emerging class of multifunctional materials","authors":"Ziyi Xie, Dan Liu, Can Gao, Huanli Dong, Wenping Hu","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00732-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-024-00732-8","url":null,"abstract":"High-mobility emissive organic semiconductors integrate efficient charge transport and strong emission features. The development of these materials, which have the potential to overcome performance bottlenecks in organic electroluminescent and photoelectric conversion devices, is opening up new research directions in organic optoelectronics.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":83.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142330202","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}
Liuliu Han, Shuya Zhu, Ziyuan Rao, Christina Scheu, Dirk Ponge, Alfred Ludwig, Hongbin Zhang, Oliver Gutfleisch, Horst Hahn, Zhiming Li, Dierk Raabe
{"title":"Multifunctional high-entropy materials","authors":"Liuliu Han, Shuya Zhu, Ziyuan Rao, Christina Scheu, Dirk Ponge, Alfred Ludwig, Hongbin Zhang, Oliver Gutfleisch, Horst Hahn, Zhiming Li, Dierk Raabe","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00720-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-024-00720-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Entropy-related phase stabilization can allow compositionally complex solid solutions of multiple principal elements. The massive mixing approach was originally introduced for metals and has recently been extended to ionic, semiconductor, polymer and low-dimensional materials. Multielement mixing can leverage new types of random, weakly ordered clustering and precipitation states in bulk materials as well as at interfaces and dislocations. The many possible atomic configurations offer opportunities to discover and exploit new functionalities, as well as to create new local symmetry features, ordering phenomena and interstitial configurations. This opens up a huge chemical and structural space in which uncharted phase states, defect chemistries, mechanisms and properties, some previously thought to be mutually exclusive, can be reconciled in one material. Earlier research concentrated on mechanical properties such as strength, toughness, fatigue and ductility. This Review shifts the focus towards multifunctional property profiles, including electronic, electrochemical, mechanical, magnetic, catalytic, hydrogen-related, Invar and caloric characteristics. Disruptive design opportunities lie in combining several of these features, rendering high-entropy materials multifunctional without sacrificing their unique mechanical properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":83.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142330204","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":"Designing desorption","authors":"Ariane Vartanian","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00739-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00739-1","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Advanced Functional Materials uses a photothermal bridge to improve the desorption performance of a metal–organic framework sorbent.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"9 10","pages":"680-680"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142317584","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":"Passively cooling power equipment","authors":"Ariane Vartanian","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00738-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00738-2","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Advanced Materials designs a sorbent-based cooling system that can dissipate the heat produced by heavy-load power equipment.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"9 10","pages":"679-679"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142317610","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":"Engineering sorption across scales","authors":"Ariane Vartanian","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00736-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00736-4","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Nature Communications optimizes a sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting system across scales — material, device design and operation.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"9 10","pages":"677-677"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142317748","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":"Hydrogen bonds as a design feature","authors":"Ariane Vartanian","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00737-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00737-3","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Chemical Communications clarifies an important role of hydrogen-bonding sites in metal–organic framework sorbents.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"9 10","pages":"678-678"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142317581","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}
He Shan, Primož Poredoš, Zhihui Chen, Xinge Yang, Zhanyu Ye, Zhifeng Hu, Ruzhu Wang, Swee Ching Tan
{"title":"Hygroscopic salt-embedded composite materials for sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting","authors":"He Shan, Primož Poredoš, Zhihui Chen, Xinge Yang, Zhanyu Ye, Zhifeng Hu, Ruzhu Wang, Swee Ching Tan","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00721-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00721-x","url":null,"abstract":"Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting has the potential to address water scarcity by extracting fresh water from the air. The performance of this technology largely depends on the sorbent used. Hygroscopic salt-embedded composite materials (HSCMs) are promising sorbents for sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting because they combine the high sorption capacities of hygroscopic salts across all relative humidity levels with the salt-retaining structure and kinetics-enhancing properties of a porous or networked matrix. However, the interactions between the matrix and salts in HSCMs are not yet fully understood, which hinders the rational design of their sorption performance. This Review introduces a framework for understanding key sorption characteristics — capacity, enthalpy, kinetics and stability — of HSCMs, through an in-depth thermodynamic analysis of the interactions among hygroscopic salts, water and salt solutions. Using this framework, we analyse reported HSCMs and guide the design of future composites by considering factors such as salt content, pore structure and the carrying capacity of the matrix. We also examine the energy flow within the sorption and desorption cycles to explore potential designs for the matrix that could enhance both aspects. Looking forward, we emphasize the importance of designing sorbent materials and multifunctional device systems in tandem, integrating material design needs, local water demand and energy efficiency to fully leverage the untapped capabilities of atmospheric humidity. Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting offers a potential solution to address global water scarcity. This Review provides a framework for guiding future designs of sorbent materials through understanding key sorption characteristics — capacity, enthalpy, kinetics and stability — derived from the thermodynamic analysis of the interactions among hygroscopic salts, water and salt solutions.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"9 10","pages":"699-721"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142317582","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":"Microscopic metasheet robots learn to walk","authors":"Giulia Pacchioni","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00734-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00734-6","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Nature Materials reports the fabrication of microscopic metasheet robots that can be electronically controlled to achieve a range of shapes and a locomotion gait.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"9 10","pages":"674-674"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142313882","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":"Publisher Correction: Non-classical crystallization in soft and organic materials","authors":"Jingshan S. Du, Yuna Bae, James J. De Yoreo","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00730-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-024-00730-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Correction to: <i>Nature Reviews Materials</i> https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-023-00637-y, published online 6 February 2024.</p>","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":83.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142314068","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}