{"title":"Emergence of melt and glass states of halide perovskite semiconductors","authors":"Akash Singh, David B. Mitzi","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00759-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00759-x","url":null,"abstract":"Metal halide perovskites have attracted considerable attention among emerging semiconductors because they can be fabricated at a low cost and have outstanding optoelectronic properties, exhibiting record-breaking performance in photovoltaic, light-emitting and sensing devices. Since the first report of halide perovskites in 1892, studies have predominantly focused on their crystalline state, characterized by long-range atomic order. Introducing the possibility of a melt and/or glass state, devoid of substantial periodicity, unlocks new avenues for property tunability, reminiscent of the transformative impact that chalcogenide glasses have provided for commercial applications, including memory and computing. In this Perspective, we highlight the mounting evidence suggesting that melt and/or glass states of halide perovskites and related hybrids hold substantial promise for expanding the property and application spectrum of this materials family. We provide a comprehensive overview of melt and glass-forming perovskites, underscore pivotal concepts behind generating low-melting-temperature and switchable crystalline or glassy states, and emphasize the crucial importance of investigating these states in the context of structure–property tunability and application. Crystalline metal halide perovskites have garnered substantial recent research attention given their outstanding semiconducting character, unprecedented tunability and wide-range application. This Perspective highlights the exciting prospects of extending this focus beyond long-range order — that is, to glassy and melt states.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 3","pages":"211-227"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142937176","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":"Light delivery to pancreatic tumours","authors":"Giulia Pacchioni","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00768-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00768-w","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Advanced Materials reports the development of an implantable, shape-morphing 3D micro-light-emitting diode device that enables continuous and effective light irradiation of pancreatic tumours.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 2","pages":"83-83"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142935850","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}
Huanyu Li, Ning Zhang, Lei Wang, Jian-Xin Lu, Renhao Dong, Huabo Duan, Jian Yang
{"title":"The challenge of recycling fast-growing fibre-reinforced polymer waste","authors":"Huanyu Li, Ning Zhang, Lei Wang, Jian-Xin Lu, Renhao Dong, Huabo Duan, Jian Yang","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00762-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00762-2","url":null,"abstract":"Fibre-reinforced polymers are widely used — and waste is growing fast. Appropriate recycling technologies should be purposefully selected to reintegrate fibre-reinforced polymer waste into sustainable industries, yield high-quality industrial products and promote the broader recycling of fibre-reinforced polymers.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 2","pages":"81-82"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911575","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":"Deformable soft magnetic fibres","authors":"Charlotte Allard","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00764-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00764-0","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Nature Communications presents a one-step spinning technique to fabricate soft magnetic high-entropy alloy fibres that exhibit enhanced plasticity and low coercivity.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 1","pages":"2-2"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142832397","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}
Yuanbin Liu, Ata Madanchi, Andy S. Anker, Lena Simine, Volker L. Deringer
{"title":"The amorphous state as a frontier in computational materials design","authors":"Yuanbin Liu, Ata Madanchi, Andy S. Anker, Lena Simine, Volker L. Deringer","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00754-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00754-2","url":null,"abstract":"One of the grand challenges in the physical sciences is to ‘design’ a material before it is ever synthesized. There has been fast progress in predicting new solid-state compounds with the help of quantum-mechanical computations and supervised machine learning, and yet such progress has largely been limited to materials with ordered crystal structures. In this Perspective, we argue that the computational design of entirely non-crystalline, amorphous solids is an emerging and rewarding frontier in materials research. We show how recent advances in computational modelling and artificial intelligence can provide the previously missing links among atomic-scale structure, microscopic properties and macroscopic functionality of amorphous solids. Accordingly, we argue that the combination of physics-based modelling and artificial intelligence is now bringing amorphous functional materials ‘by design’ within reach. We discuss new implications for laboratory synthesis, and we outline our vision for the development of the field in the years ahead. Amorphous materials are increasingly central components of key technologies, but their structures remain challenging to study. This Perspective highlights how recent advances in computational materials modelling and artificial intelligence are now bringing the ‘design’ of amorphous materials within reach.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 3","pages":"228-241"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142825600","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":"Temporarily solid, permanently porous","authors":"Eren J. Peterson","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00765-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00765-z","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Nature Communications demonstrates a modular synthetic method to create metal–organic polyhedra that maintain porosity during phase transformation.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 1","pages":"3-3"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142832398","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 ductile refractory high-entropy alloys","authors":"Giulia Pacchioni","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00763-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00763-1","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Science Advances reports the computational design and experimental validation of Al-enriched refractory high-entropy alloys that combine high strength and ductility with reduced cost and good oxidation resistance.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815519","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":"Non-faradaic junction sensing","authors":"Yecheng Wang, Kun Jia, Zhigang Suo","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00755-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-024-00755-1","url":null,"abstract":"A non-faradaic junction (NFJ) is a connection between an ionic conductor and an electronic conductor in which no electrochemical reaction takes place. The junction behaves like a capacitor and couples the ionic and electronic currents through chemistry, electricity and entropy. Its charge–voltage curve is sensitive to various environmental signals, allowing it to function as a sensor; because no reaction occurs, the sensing is non-destructive and long-lasting. NFJ sensors have high sensitivity, rapid response and small size, and they can be self-powered. These sensors are familiarly used in electrophysiology of the heart, brain and muscles, and applications are emerging in wearable and implantable devices and soft robotics, as well as in sensing pressure, sound, temperature and chemicals. In this Review, we discuss NFJ sensors, emphasizing the development of devices and materials for each side of the junction. The flexibility in choosing materials enables NFJ sensors to fulfil challenging requirements, such as softness, stretchability, transparency and degradability. A junction between an ionic conductor and an electronic conductor is called non-faradaic if no electrochemical reaction takes place. Such a junction can be used to sense various environmental signals, including pressure, sound, temperature and chemicals. This Review discusses non-faradaic junction sensors, with emphasis on the development of devices and materials.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 3","pages":"176-190"},"PeriodicalIF":79.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142797153","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":"Quantitative biomimetics of high-performance materials","authors":"Ming Yang, Nicholas A. Kotov","doi":"10.1038/s41578-024-00753-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-024-00753-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ongoing need for materials with difficult-to-combine properties has driven dramatic advancements in the field of bioinspired and biomimetic (nano)structures. These materials blend order and disorder, making their structures difficult to describe and, thus, reproduce. Their practical design involves the approximate replication of geometries found in biological tissues, aiming to achieve desired functionalities using a diverse array of human-made molecular and nanoscale components. Although this approach led to the successful development of numerous high-performance nanocomposites, the rapidly growing demand for better and better materials in energy, water, health and other technologies necessitates an accelerated design process, multidimensional property assessment and, thus, a shift towards quantitative biomimetics. In this Perspective, we approach the design of complex bioinspired materials from the standpoint of interfacial chemistry and physics. Analysing typical examples of biological composites and their successful replicates, we propose a framework based on Taylor series and property differentials that quantifies their interdependence. Five specific cases are considered for limiting their cross-products in Taylor expansions, including discontinuities of differentials at interfaces and multiple scales of organization. We also discuss how the integration of theory, simulations and machine learning is central to the development of quantitative biomimetics. This approach will enable the <i>n</i>-dimensional optimization of contrarian properties by leveraging materials with a high volumetric density of interfaces, graph theoretical description of complex structures and hierarchical multiscale architectures.</p>","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":83.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142788681","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}