MatterPub Date : 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102299
Chen Li, Yiming Wang, Chengyu Li, Ke Liu, Jiajia Feng, Haoming Cheng, En Chen, Dequan Jiang, Qiaoxin Zhang, Ting Wen, Binbin Yue, Wenge Yang, Yonggang Wang
{"title":"Superconductivity in quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnetic CrNbSe5 microwires under high pressure","authors":"Chen Li, Yiming Wang, Chengyu Li, Ke Liu, Jiajia Feng, Haoming Cheng, En Chen, Dequan Jiang, Qiaoxin Zhang, Ting Wen, Binbin Yue, Wenge Yang, Yonggang Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102299","url":null,"abstract":"Exploring potential superconductivity in magnetic compounds stands as a pivotal and challenging frontier issue. Low-dimensional materials, with their distinctive quantum confinement effects, provide an unparalleled platform for probing such quantum phenomena. Here, we present the discovery of pressure-induced superconductivity in novel antiferromagnetic CrNbSe<sub>5</sub> microwires with a distinctive quasi-one-dimensional structure. Under compression, CrNbSe<sub>5</sub> exhibits superconductivity at 15.0 GPa accompanied by carrier-type switching. The superconducting transition temperature reaches a maximum of 6.0 K at 34.2 GPa. Detailed structural analyses and theoretical calculations corroborate the quantum effects arising from Lifshitz transitions. Additionally, phonon softening and enhanced interchain interactions facilitate pressure-induced superconductivity. These findings offer critical insights into the mechanisms underlying pressure-induced superconductivity and its interplay with structural and electronic instabilities, accelerating the discovery of exotic quantum phenomena in low-dimensional van der Waals magnetic materials.","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144677930","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}
MatterPub Date : 2025-07-22DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102294
Bei Liu, Chunlei Jiang, Kunye Yan, Jian Shang, Yixuan Fan, Lei Shi, Qingguang Pan, Yongbing Tang
{"title":"Super-wetting interface engineering of space-confined micron-sized alloying anodes for high-performance sodium-based dual-ion batteries","authors":"Bei Liu, Chunlei Jiang, Kunye Yan, Jian Shang, Yixuan Fan, Lei Shi, Qingguang Pan, Yongbing Tang","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102294","url":null,"abstract":"Poor electrolyte wettability on micron-sized alloying anodes causes uneven interfacial reactions and stress distribution. To address this issue, we present a super-wetting interface engineering strategy to foster reaction homogeneity and accelerate reaction kinetics during alloying. As a proof of concept, micron-sized Sn particles are deposited into the space-confined three-dimensional aluminum current collector and encapsulated with amorphous carbon. By combining experimental and theoretical analyses, we confirm an electrolyte-philic interface with a near-zero contact angle, employing the Wenzel wetting model. Simultaneously, the high elastoplastic deformation of the aluminum cage ensures stable electrical contact during the cycling process. The optimized Sn anode paired with a graphite cathode exhibits excellent cycling stability and rate performance in sodium-based dual-ion batteries, maintaining a capacity of 90 mAh g<sup>−1</sup> over 2,000 cycles at 5 C and retaining 52% capacity at 100 C. This investigation provides a feasible interfacial and structural engineering strategy for micron-sized alloying anodes in sodium-ion batteries.","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144677929","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}
MatterPub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102290
Jason Lynch, Tzu-Yu Peng, Jing-Wei Yang, Ben R. Conran, Bongjun Choi, Cindy Yueli Chen, Zahra Fakhraai, Clifford McAleese, Yu-Jung Lu, Deep Jariwala
{"title":"High-temperature-resilient hyperbolicity in a mixed-dimensional superlattice","authors":"Jason Lynch, Tzu-Yu Peng, Jing-Wei Yang, Ben R. Conran, Bongjun Choi, Cindy Yueli Chen, Zahra Fakhraai, Clifford McAleese, Yu-Jung Lu, Deep Jariwala","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102290","url":null,"abstract":"Hyperbolic superlattices are used for subwavelength focusing, cloaking, and optical thermal management. Typically, these superlattices are constructed of layers of noble metals and insulators. Despite these systems displaying excellent optical performance, the poor thermal stability of noble metals prevents their application in high-temperature environments. Instead, CMOS-compatible transition-metal nitrides are often substituted for noble metals in plasmonic systems since they have high thermal stability at the expense of optical properties. Here, we fabricate hyperbolic titanium nitride (TiN)/hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) superlattices with 3D-2D interfaces. The mixed-dimensional nature of the interfaces prevents atoms from diffusing across the interface at high temperatures. The hyperbolicity of the superlattice is found to be unaffected by annealing at high temperature (800°C for 5 days), and TiN/hBN is found to have a larger hyperbolic figure of merit than similar superlattices.","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144669936","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}
MatterPub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102292
Chen Yang, Baoyi Wu, Huijie Wang, Qian Zhao, Di Chen
{"title":"Orthogonal light triggering of dynamic polymer networks toward on-demand shape evolution control","authors":"Chen Yang, Baoyi Wu, Huijie Wang, Qian Zhao, Di Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102292","url":null,"abstract":"Shape-shifting materials are bases of soft machines to accomplish sophisticated tasks. While significant progress has been made in diversifying shape transformation behaviors, current evolution pathways are determined by pre-programming approaches, limiting real-time adaptability and flexibility during operation. Here, we report a dynamic covalent polymer network swollen with a nonvolatile aliphatic acid mixture, which enables multi-shape memory properties. During shape-shifting, ultraviolet light is employed to spatially lock the geometries through disulfide bond exchange, allowing the on-demand adjustment of shape evolution. Additionally, the introduction of a photothermal azobenzene derivative allows the gel to undergo sequential shape recovery upon near-infrared light irradiation. This design facilitates real-time control of shape evolution through orthogonal light, overcoming the constraints of pre-programming. Building on this, the polymer is employed as a functional switch with an error-correction capability to enhance electrical safety. The versatility and adaptability of our strategy exhibit great potentials to fabricate future shape-shifting devices.","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144669938","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":"Organic-inorganic metal halide glass optical fibers for ultralow-loss and bendable photonic applications","authors":"Qing-Peng Peng, Zi-Lin He, Jing-Hua Chen, Jun-Hua Wei, Jian-Bin Luo, Tian-Chi Wang, Kong-Lan Chen, Dai-Bin Kuang","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102277","url":null,"abstract":"Organic-inorganic metal halides (OIMHs) exhibit remarkable thermodynamic transitions between crystalline and amorphous states, yet their potential application in optical fibers has not been explored. In this study, we present a melt-filling strategy leveraging the low-temperature (230°C) fluidity of (HTPP)<sub>2</sub>MnBr<sub>4</sub> and (HTPP)<sub>2</sub>SbBr<sub>5</sub> (HTPP = hexyltriphenylphosphonium) glasses to fabricate optical fibers with controllable diameters and lengths. These OIMH fibers processed at 230°C feature a core-cladding structure with minimal defects, achieving remarkably low transmission losses of 0.41 dB/cm for Mn-based fibers and 0.16 dB/cm for Sb-based fibers, along with exceptional mechanical flexibility (bending radius ≤0.8 mm). These optical fibers enable information encryption systems and reliable light transmission under bending, demonstrating their potential applications in optical encryption and integrated photonics. This work establishes OIMHs as promising candidates for next-generation optical waveguides.","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144669935","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}
MatterPub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102285
Saurabh Khuje, Jiayue Sun, Chong Yang, Zhongxuan Wang, Long Zhu, Tangyuan Li, Gianna Valentino, Nicholas Ku, Andres Bujanda, Jian Yu, Tucker Moore, Taylor J. Woehl, Liangbing Hu, Shenqiang Ren
{"title":"Pyrolyzed preceramic precursors to compositionally complex ceramics","authors":"Saurabh Khuje, Jiayue Sun, Chong Yang, Zhongxuan Wang, Long Zhu, Tangyuan Li, Gianna Valentino, Nicholas Ku, Andres Bujanda, Jian Yu, Tucker Moore, Taylor J. Woehl, Liangbing Hu, Shenqiang Ren","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102285","url":null,"abstract":"Ceramics from chemically distinct preceramic polymers offer unique shaping and microstructural control but face challenges such as shrinkage, uncontrolled porosity, and pyrolysis-sensitive stoichiometry. The high-temperature potential of compositionally complex ceramics is further constrained by precursor scarcity and the low-throughput nature of pyrolysis. Here, we introduce short-chain preceramic precursors crosslinked with group IV–VI transition metals (Zr, Cr, V, Mo, Hf, W, Nb, etc.), which are compatible with additive manufacturing. We explored extrusion and ultrafast pyrolysis with multi-metal precursors to enable enhanced compositional complexity, lower processing temperatures, and rapid screening of oxidation-resistant ceramics. Through ultrafast electrical pyrolysis, these crosslinked precursors convert into dense, multi-phase ceramics in under a minute. The resulting materials exhibit homogeneous composition and oxidation resistance up to 1,873 K, offering a scalable route to protective coatings and bulk ceramics for extreme environments.","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"675 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144669942","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}
MatterPub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102289
Yusen Ai, Ruizhe Xing, Ning Ren, Renliang Huang, Mei Cui, Rongxin Su, Jie Kong
{"title":"Biomass-derived hierarchical carbon frameworks enable robust microwave absorption","authors":"Yusen Ai, Ruizhe Xing, Ning Ren, Renliang Huang, Mei Cui, Rongxin Su, Jie Kong","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102289","url":null,"abstract":"The complex electromagnetic environment challenges high-performance electromagnetic wave (EMW) absorbers. Conventional single-layer absorbers face performance decline under oblique incidence due to mismatched transmission paths and thickness constraints from quarter-wavelength theory. To address this, we develop a phosphorylated carbonized wood-phosphorylated carbonized fiber composite (PCW-PCF), combining natural oriented porous meta-structures with a micro-engineered carbon fiber network. This hierarchical framework employs material/structural dispersion engineering to enhance multiple scattering and dielectric losses. The PCW-PCF achieves an ultrabroad 31-GHz absorption band (9–40 GHz, US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)-arch method), stable performance across polarizations (TE/TM) and oblique incidence (≤60°). Additionally, it demonstrates ultralow density (0.048 g/cm<sup>3</sup>), exceptional specific compressive strength (66.46 MPa cm<sup>−3</sup> g<sup>−1</sup>), and flame retardancy. These findings underscore the significant potential of utilizing sustainable wood-derived materials for the development of high-performance EMW absorption materials.","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144669937","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}
MatterPub Date : 2025-07-18DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102271
Boya Li, Shiteng Zhao, Marc A. Meyers
{"title":"Direct observation of plastic deformation in diamond under extreme loading","authors":"Boya Li, Shiteng Zhao, Marc A. Meyers","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102271","url":null,"abstract":"High-power pulsed laser-driven shock compression was conducted on [001]-oriented single-crystalline diamond specimens encapsulated in impedance-matched metal capsules, generating shock pressures of 69, 93, and 115 GPa at a pulse duration of approximately 1 ns. At a pressure of 69 GPa, the defect-free lattice is retained, and diamond exhibits only elastic deformation. At a pressure of 115 GPa, defects are generated in the structure by the high shear stresses, which are relaxed by stacking faults, dislocations, and twins. These shear-induced lattice defects on crystallographic slip planes are crucial to the onset of amorphization. The amorphous bands are extremely localized and as narrow as a few nanometers. This amorphization is consistent with other covalently bonded materials with negative Clapeyron behavior subjected to extreme loading. Consequently, shock-induced amorphization is proposed as a new deformation mechanism of diamond under extremely-high-strain-rate deformation.","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144652663","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":"Intraoperative and spatiotemporal mapping of acute inflammation response during neuroelectrode implantation","authors":"Linlin Liu, Bangchao Xi, Yating Luo, Yuxuan Liu, Pengxin Huang, Jiayun Wu, Yao Guo, Fanxiang Bu, Yirou Liang, Fei He, Yunbo Li, Lin Zhang, Danhua Wang, Xiaotong Jiang, Guang-Zhong Yang, Guangyu Qiu","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102262","url":null,"abstract":"Intraoperative and spatiotemporal monitoring of neuroinflammatory indices during brain-computer interface (BCI) implantation is essential for ensuring safety and efficacy of the procedure. Current biomolecular detection approaches are unable to obtain spatiotemporally resolved inflammatory profiling, which is important for guiding the placement of microelectrodes intraoperatively. This study presents an intraoperative spatiotemporal acute inflammation detector (ISAID) that harnesses droplet-based sampling and multiplexed titanium oxynitride (TiNO) plasmonic biosensing to assess local inflammation during the insertion of intracortical microelectrodes. Through freestanding sampling droplets and fine-tuned TiNO-based biosensors, the ISAID achieved precise, sensitive, and integrated sampling to biosensing for cytokine detection with a spatial resolution down to 610 μm and a fast equivalent bioassay time of 1.25 min. The proposed system also allows multiple ISAID biosensing modes, enabling both spatial inflammation mapping and multi-cytokine analysis. Quantitative analyses of inflammatory cytokines with <em>in vivo</em> mouse models demonstrate the accuracy and practical advantages of the system.","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144645625","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}
MatterPub Date : 2025-07-09DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102267
Meng-Yen Lin, Kristen Severson, Paul Grandgeorge, Eleftheria Roumeli
{"title":"Closed-loop optimization using machine learning for the accelerated design of sustainable cements incorporating algal biomatter","authors":"Meng-Yen Lin, Kristen Severson, Paul Grandgeorge, Eleftheria Roumeli","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102267","url":null,"abstract":"The substantial embodied carbon of cement, coupled with the ever-increasing need for construction materials, motivates the need for more sustainable cementitious materials. An emerging strategy to mitigate CO<sub>2</sub> emissions involves incorporating carbon-negative biomatter; however, this introduces new challenges due to complex hydration-strength relationships and the combinatorial design space. Here, using machine learning, we develop a closed-loop optimization strategy to accelerate green-cement design with minimal CO<sub>2</sub> emissions while meeting compressive-strength criterion. Green cements incorporating algae are tested in real time to predict strength evolution, with early-stopping criteria applied to accelerate the optimization process. This approach, using only 28 days of experiment time, attains both the strength requirement and 93% of the achievable improvement in global warming potential (GWP), resulting in a cement that has a 21% reduction in GWP. We further validate model-informed relationships via analysis of hydration, demonstrating the potential for developing materials grounded in scientific understanding.","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144587027","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}