MatterPub Date : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102060
Pengshan Xie , Johnny C. Ho
{"title":"Artificial perception system for dynamic recognition and trajectory extraction","authors":"Pengshan Xie , Johnny C. Ho","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102060","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102060","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Multi-modal in-sensor computing offers a promising approach to enhancing data processing efficiency and achieving breakthroughs in bandwidth and energy consumption. In a recent study published in <em>Device</em>, Chang et al. introduced a porous-Si/Si artificial visual system created through electrochemical etching. The voltage regulation performance, driven by the photovoltaic effect, has the potential to inspire the development of next-generation neuromorphic devices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 5","pages":"Article 102060"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143913271","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 : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102138
Longhai Zhang , Qiming Bing , Huang Qin , Liang Yu , Haobo Li , Dehui Deng
{"title":"Artificial intelligence for catalyst design and synthesis","authors":"Longhai Zhang , Qiming Bing , Huang Qin , Liang Yu , Haobo Li , Dehui Deng","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102138","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102138","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Accurate and efficient synthesis of catalysts is a critical issue in catalysis research. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) provide a transformative opportunity for catalyst synthesis, shifting from traditional experience-driven approaches to data-driven, automated, and intelligent design and synthesis methodology. This perspective highlights representative progress in AI-assisted catalyst synthesis, emphasizing the machine learning (ML) methods that predict catalyst structure and performance, optimize synthesis conditions, and drive automated high-throughput experimentation and characterization. In the vision of promoting deeper integration of AI into catalyst synthesis and achieving a closed-loop workflow, feasible routes of applying ML for promoting descriptor identification, large-scale calculation, and catalytic activity and stability prediction are specifically reviewed. The application of cutting-edge ML methods, such as the active learning and generative model, in catalyst design and synthesis is also discussed. The new paradigm of AI-driven catalyst synthesis is promising to benefit discovery efficiency in catalysis, material, and energy fields.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 5","pages":"Article 102138"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143913274","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 : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102048
Mengxi Gu , Chuan Fei Guo , Yu Song
{"title":"Multimodal bioelectronics: A pathway to digital health management","authors":"Mengxi Gu , Chuan Fei Guo , Yu Song","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102048","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102048","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent advancements in multimodal bioelectronics have demonstrated remarkable promise in transforming digital health. In contrast to conventional hospital-based healthcare systems, multimodal bioelectronics facilitates flexible and continuous physiological monitoring, offering the potential for accurate diagnosis and personalized therapeutics. In this review, we summarize and highlight the latest progress in multimodal bioelectronics and their practical applications. We first introduce emerging material selections and interface design strategies for conformal contact with the human body. Then, we discuss the principles of energy management and the workflow of integrated platforms, especially introducing algorithm utilization for real-time data acquisition, processing, and transmission. Additionally, we focus on the categorized practical applications of multimodal bioelectronics in digital health by emphasizing their role in the healthcare of specific populations, as well as in the diagnosis and monitoring of common diseases. Finally, we provide an outlook to address the challenges and the trends of multimodal bioelectronics toward digital health management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 5","pages":"Article 102048"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143913207","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 : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102031
Chi Chen , Wenhao Hou , Ximin He
{"title":"NeuroMuscles: Pioneering materials open a new path to artificial skeletal muscles","authors":"Chi Chen , Wenhao Hou , Ximin He","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Human skeletal muscles possess a delicate structure that enables simultaneous sensing and actuation through neuromuscular fiber bundles. However, most current material designs face challenges in integrating these capabilities within a single fiber bundle and instead rely on centralized systems to process signals between separate sensors and actuators. This preview highlights NeuroMuscles, an innovative artificial neuromuscular fiber bundle based on multilayered microfibers with a self-reinforcing sheath, enabling both proprioception and exteroception as an advancement in the development of next-generation artificial muscles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 5","pages":"Article 102031"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143913267","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 : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102046
Pengqi Yang , Caoyu Yang , Zhengyan Wu , Zhiyong Tang
{"title":"Evolving metal-organic frameworks for highly active oxygen evolution","authors":"Pengqi Yang , Caoyu Yang , Zhengyan Wu , Zhiyong Tang","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102046","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts in water have exhibited promising catalytic activity thanks to abundant reaction sites and great tunability. Generally, metal centers in MOFs are known to experience geometric and electronic changes to form catalytically active sites in the OER process. However, the <em>in situ</em> restructuring process of metal centers in MOFs is largely hindered by the intrinsic drawbacks of MOFs, such as low electrical conductivity, scarce coordinatively unsaturated metal nodes, and redox-inert linkers. Many strategies have been attempted to tune the geometric and electronic features of metal centers in pristine MOFs to refine the restructuring of metal centers. Clearly, an in-depth understanding of the structural correlation between the restructuring process and pristine MOFs becomes a prerequisite for obtaining highly active OER catalysts. In this perspective, we summarize the four essential design strategies of MOFs, including modulating morphologies, defects, metal nodes, and organic linkers of MOFs. We deduce that these strategies efficiently optimize the geometric and electronic structures of metal centers in MOFs, such as undercoordinated environments, coordination bond strengths, and the density of electronic states near the Fermi level, which facilitate the reconfiguration process of metal centers under operating conditions. This perspective offers a deep understanding of the restructuring process of MOFs during the OER process, which will lay the foundation for designing MOF electrocatalysts with high activity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 5","pages":"Article 102046"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143913272","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 : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102137
Zhuoxi Wu , Qing Li , Ze Chen , Chunyi Zhi
{"title":"Calendar aging of zinc-ion batteries","authors":"Zhuoxi Wu , Qing Li , Ze Chen , Chunyi Zhi","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) have garnered significant attention as potential candidates for large-scale energy storage. In recent years, researchers have made notable progress in extending the cycle life of ZIBs. However, another critical factor, calendar aging, also plays a significant role in applying ZIBs practically. The current research achievements and expectations for the practical application of ZIBs highlight the urgent need for an in-depth investigation of their calendar aging. Nevertheless, the stimuli affecting the calendar aging of ZIBs remain unclear. Before conducting a systematic study, it is essential to identify and clarify the stimuli that may influence the calendar aging of ZIBs and understand the interlaced relationships between them. This perspective comprehensively discusses the potential effects of internal stimuli, such as Zn anode passivation, Zn depletion, electrolyte consumption, and cathode dissolution, as well as external stimuli, including the state of charge (SOC), temperature, pressure, and battery packaging, on the calendar aging of ZIBs. Additionally, some promising research methods are proposed to help researchers further understand and improve the calendar aging of ZIBs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 5","pages":"Article 102137"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143913273","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 : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102096
Chengyu Li , Peng Qin , Gongao Peng , Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse , Lu Shang , Tierui Zhang
{"title":"Ultrafine Pt-based high-entropy alloy nanooctahedra deliver enhanced methanol oxidation reaction activity and durability","authors":"Chengyu Li , Peng Qin , Gongao Peng , Geoffrey I.N. Waterhouse , Lu Shang , Tierui Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102096","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102096","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pt-based nanooctahedra exposing highly active (111) facets demonstrate outstanding electrochemical activity in various types of fuel cells. However, simultaneously controlling the morphology, size, and electronic structure of such nanooctahedra is challenging. Herein, a high-entropy alloy (HEA) approach was adopted to reduce the size of the Pt-based nanooctahedra while also tuning the electronic structure. As a result, carbon-supported HEA PtNiCuMoCoIr nanooctahedra (PtNiCuMoCoIr/C, with an edge length of only 2.8 nm) exhibited a remarkable mass activity of 3.34 A mg<sub>PGM</sub><sup>−1</sup> for the methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) in acidic conditions, which was 2.2 and 7.3 times higher than ternary PtNiCu/C nanooctahedra and commercial Pt/C, respectively. Furthermore, PtNiCuMoCoIr/C exhibited excellent CO poisoning resistance with a mass activity loss of only 6.6% after a chronoamperometric test. The combination of ultrafine nanooctahedra and the selected HEA elements generated lattice strain and favorably tuned the electronic structure, which improved the MOR performance by enhancing the adsorption of ∗OH.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 5","pages":"Article 102096"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143798553","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 : 2025-04-21DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102108
Yu Chen, Shai Zilberzwige-Tal, Nathan D. Rosenmann, Julia Oktawiec, Ashley K. Nensel, Qing Ma, Sasha Lichtenstein, Ehud Gazit, Nathan C. Gianneschi
{"title":"Hierarchically porous carnosine-Zn microspheres","authors":"Yu Chen, Shai Zilberzwige-Tal, Nathan D. Rosenmann, Julia Oktawiec, Ashley K. Nensel, Qing Ma, Sasha Lichtenstein, Ehud Gazit, Nathan C. Gianneschi","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102108","url":null,"abstract":"Hierarchically porous materials have broad applications in biotechnology and medicine, yet current fabrication methods often lack scalability and biocompatibility. Here, we present a peptide-coordination self-assembly approach to prepare hierarchically porous microspheres composed of naturally occurring carnosine dipeptide and coordinated Zn(II) ions. Metal coordination led to microsphere formation featuring interconnected channels with a hierarchically porous structure. Characterization with scanning electron and transmission electron microscopy, as well as with extended X-ray absorption fine structure, confirmed its nanofibrous architecture and local Zn(II) coordination environment. Liquid cell transmission electron microscopy, in turn, provided real-time insight into the assembly process, revealing a stepwise process from nanoclusters to nanofibers and ultimately to porous microspheres. The carnosine-Zn(II) microspheres exhibit intrinsic blue fluorescence and high porosity, containing both micropores and mesopores, which facilitate efficient mass transport and biomolecule immobilization. We leverage these properties to generate reusable, cell-free synthesis nanoreactors, to enhance DNA transcription and translation and protect against nuclease degradation.","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"219 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143853252","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 : 2025-04-16DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.102107
Yingshan Ma, Ian Kenalty, Niher R. Sarker, Yuhang Huang, Baichuan Kou, Cheng Hao, Ning Yan, Jay Werber, Eugenia Kumacheva
{"title":"Hierarchically structured phytoglycogen aerogels for atmospheric water harvesting","authors":"Yingshan Ma, Ian Kenalty, Niher R. Sarker, Yuhang Huang, Baichuan Kou, Cheng Hao, Ning Yan, Jay Werber, Eugenia Kumacheva","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.102107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102107","url":null,"abstract":"Water scarcity in arid regions is a challenge stimulating the need for the development of sustainable methods to harvest water vapor from the atmosphere. In this work, we developed an aerogel with a structural hierarchy for enhanced water capture and release. The aerogel was derived from nature-sourced biodegradable phytoglycogen nanoparticles (PhG NPs) that exhibit strong hydrogen bonding with water molecules. The crosslinking of acryloyl-modified PhG NPs produced microgel particles that were used as building blocks for a macroscopic hydrogel. The removal of water from this hydrogel yielded an aerogel with three characteristic pore dimensions, that is, several nanometer-, tens of nanometer-, and micrometer-size pores. The aerogel showed enhanced water-harvesting capacity and sorption kinetics. This hierarchically structured aerogel shows promise as an eco-friendly material for atmospheric water harvesting and offers a sustainable alternative to traditional sorbents.","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":18.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143836897","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}