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Passively cooling power equipment 被动冷却电力设备

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Nature Reviews Materials Pub Date : 2024-09-25 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-024-00738-2

Ariane Vartanian

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Engineering sorption across scales 跨尺度吸附工程

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Nature Reviews Materials Pub Date : 2024-09-25 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-024-00736-4

Ariane Vartanian

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Hydrogen bonds as a design feature 氢键是一种设计特征

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Nature Reviews Materials Pub Date : 2024-09-25 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-024-00737-3

Ariane Vartanian

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Hygroscopic salt-embedded composite materials for sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting 用于基于吸附的大气水收集的吸湿性盐嵌入复合材料

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Nature Reviews Materials Pub Date : 2024-09-25 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-024-00721-x

He Shan, Primož Poredoš, Zhihui Chen, Xinge Yang, Zhanyu Ye, Zhifeng Hu, Ruzhu Wang, Swee Ching Tan

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Microscopic metasheet robots learn to walk 微型元片机器人学会走路

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Nature Reviews Materials Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-024-00734-6

Giulia Pacchioni

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Publisher Correction: Non-classical crystallization in soft and organic materials 出版商更正：软材料和有机材料中的非经典结晶

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Nature Reviews Materials Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-024-00730-w

Jingshan S. Du, Yuna Bae, James J. De Yoreo

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Combining computer vision and atomic force microscopy for 3D reconstruction 结合计算机视觉和原子力显微镜进行三维重建

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Nature Reviews Materials Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-024-00733-7

Charlotte Allard

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Diffusion mechanisms of fast lithium-ion conductors 快速锂离子导体的扩散机制

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Nature Reviews Materials Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-024-00715-9

KyuJung Jun, Yu Chen, Grace Wei, Xiaochen Yang, Gerbrand Ceder

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Towards the holistic design of alloys with large language models 利用大型语言模型实现合金的整体设计

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Nature Reviews Materials Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-024-00726-6

Zongrui Pei, Junqi Yin, Jörg Neugebauer, Anubhav Jain

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Robots that evolve on demand 按需进化的机器人

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Nature Reviews Materials Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1038/s41578-024-00711-z

Robert Baines, Frank Fish, Josh Bongard, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio

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