MatterPub Date : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.101951
Cunhai Wang , Wenhui Wang , Hao Chen , Jingchong Liu
{"title":"Mimicking scarab beetle elytra in colorful radiative coolers","authors":"Cunhai Wang , Wenhui Wang , Hao Chen , Jingchong Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.101951","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.101951","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Designing radiative coolers with colorful appearances enables expanded scenarios for implementing the radiative cooling technology that emerges as a solution to global energy and environmental issues. In a recent issue of <em>Matter</em>, Hou et al.<span><span><sup>1</sup></span></span> mimicked the hierarchically porous structure within the scarab beetle and designed a high-performance radiative cooler with tunable apparent colors, paving a bionic path for synergetic cooling and color management of radiative coolers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 2","pages":"Article 101951"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143124823","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 : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.10.015
Kourosh Darvish , Marta Skreta , Yuchi Zhao , Naruki Yoshikawa , Sagnik Som , Miroslav Bogdanovic , Yang Cao , Han Hao , Haoping Xu , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Animesh Garg , Florian Shkurti
{"title":"ORGANA: A robotic assistant for automated chemistry experimentation and characterization","authors":"Kourosh Darvish , Marta Skreta , Yuchi Zhao , Naruki Yoshikawa , Sagnik Som , Miroslav Bogdanovic , Yang Cao , Han Hao , Haoping Xu , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Animesh Garg , Florian Shkurti","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.10.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.10.015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Chemistry experiments can be resource- and labor-intensive, often requiring manual tasks like polishing electrodes in electrochemistry. Traditional lab automation infrastructure faces challenges adapting to new experiments. To address this, we introduce ORGANA, an assistive robotic system that automates diverse chemistry experiments using decision-making and perception tools. It makes decisions with chemists in the loop to control robots and lab devices. ORGANA interacts with chemists using large language models (LLMs) to derive experiment goals, handle disambiguation, and provide experiment logs. ORGANA plans and executes complex tasks with visual feedback while supporting scheduling and parallel task execution. We demonstrate ORGANA’s capabilities in solubility, pH measurement, recrystallization, and electrochemistry experiments. In electrochemistry, it executes a 19-step plan in parallel to characterize quinone derivatives for flow batteries. Our user study shows ORGANA reduces frustration and physical demand by over 50%, with users saving an average of 80.3% of their time when using it.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 2","pages":"Article 101897"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142599874","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 : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.10.023
Qian Cui , Yi Li , Xiaoyue Sun , Beibei Weng , René Hübner , Yu Cui , Qiaoran Zhang , Yunjun Luo , Leining Zhang , Ran Du
{"title":"Manipulating multimetallic effects: Programming size-tailored metal aerogels as self-standing electrocatalysts","authors":"Qian Cui , Yi Li , Xiaoyue Sun , Beibei Weng , René Hübner , Yu Cui , Qiaoran Zhang , Yunjun Luo , Leining Zhang , Ran Du","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.10.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.10.023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Metal aerogels are emerging porous materials composed entirely of nanostructured metals, which manifest broad prospects in diverse fields. Particularly, multimetallic aerogels (MMAs) receive increasing attention due to their widely tunable properties stimulated by the synergy of multiple metals. However, the investigation of multimetallic effects in MMAs is predominantly restricted to optimizing their application performances. Here, the untrivial multimetallic effects on the synthetic aspect are discovered, and the underlying mechanisms are unveiled, offering new perspectives for manipulating the sol-gel process and tuning the ligament size (<em>d</em><sub>L</sub>) of MMAs by designing the average bulk density (<em>ρ</em><sub>ab</sub>) and atomic radius (<em>r</em><sub>a</sub>) mismatch. Moreover, a sedimentation-based non-destructive method is established, which solves the long-lasting challenge of preparing intact metal-gel-based electrocatalysts and yields record-high performances toward alcohol oxidation reactions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 2","pages":"Article 101905"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142713057","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 : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2025.101962
Gabriele Laudadio , Giulia Lavarda , Hyunsoo Park , Steve Cranford
{"title":"Reflections in search of faculty (and other) positions in Europe","authors":"Gabriele Laudadio , Giulia Lavarda , Hyunsoo Park , Steve Cranford","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.101962","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2025.101962","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Here, upon the invitation of <em>Matter</em>’s editorial team, three early career researchers from three European institutes with various backgrounds and research expertise share their insights into seeking academic positions (and future careers).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 2","pages":"Article 101962"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143124506","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 : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.101949
Dongmei Wang , Le Shi , Jiantang Li
{"title":"Revealing the iceberg beneath: A merge-net approach for designing multicomponent reticular solids","authors":"Dongmei Wang , Le Shi , Jiantang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.101949","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.101949","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Designing multicomponent reticular structures has been limited by the availability of suitable structural blueprints. Recently, a groundbreaking work reported by Eddaoudi and co-workers in <em>Science</em> has introduced a merged-net approach that expands the design space of reticular chemistry by combining edge-transitive nets, accelerating the discovery of intricate reticular materials.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 2","pages":"Article 101949"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143124983","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 : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.006
Amy Chen , Asher Leff , Zhenpu Li , Carlos A. Ríos Ocampo , Jonathan A. Boltersdorf , Taylor J. Woehl
{"title":"Visualizing plasmon-mediated metal deposition and nanoparticle reshaping with liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy","authors":"Amy Chen , Asher Leff , Zhenpu Li , Carlos A. Ríos Ocampo , Jonathan A. Boltersdorf , Taylor J. Woehl","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hot carriers generated by localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) in metal nanoparticles can drive chemical reactions such as secondary metal deposition and catalytic reactions. Rationally designing plasmonic nanostructures requires understanding how particle geometry impacts hot carrier reaction dynamics. Here we use liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy (LP-TEM) and an electron radiolysis-resistant solvent to visualize hot carrier-mediated silver deposition and gold nanorod (AuNR) reshaping. AuNRs grew primarily in the transverse direction and displayed tip sharpening and preferential growth at LSPR hotspots. <em>Ex situ</em> white-light illumination produced similar morphological and compositional changes, whereas radiolysis products did not. Growth dynamics relative to electron beam flux and AuNR orientation were consistent with numerical simulations of hot carrier generation. Isolating hot carrier-induced redox processes on AuNRs during LP-TEM enabled quantifying spatially varying hot electron reaction dynamics. This approach is expected to enable quantifying and visualizing a broad range of plasmonic carrier-mediated reactions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 2","pages":"Article 101912"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142763895","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 : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.020
Xi Chen , Fengkai Liu , Qifeng Yu , Meng Yang , Zhigang Suo , Jingda Tang
{"title":"A soft and fatigue-resistant material that mimics heart valves","authors":"Xi Chen , Fengkai Liu , Qifeng Yu , Meng Yang , Zhigang Suo , Jingda Tang","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bovine pericardium, a tissue commonly used to make artificial heart valves, fulfills two fundamental mechanical requirements: a low modulus to ensure opening and closing in cyclic pulsatile flow and a high fatigue threshold to prevent crack growth. The tissue consists of a soft matrix and crimped fibers. Inspired by this architecture, we develop a composite of a soft polymer matrix and a knitted fabric. When the stretch is small to modest, the knitted fabric is easily stretched, so that the composite is soft. When the stretch is large, the knitted fabric is stiff and strong, so that the composite resists fatigue crack growth. The mechanical behavior of the composite is comparable to that of bovine pericardium. The composite has an exceptionally long fatigue life, enduring 25 million cycles of pulsatile flow, two orders of magnitude longer than the polymer matrix. This soft and fatigue-resistant composite may find broad applications in biomedicine.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 2","pages":"Article 101926"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816241","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 : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.10.020
Lu Song , Ruiyan Guo , Li Pan , Yishakejiang Saimaiti , Shaopeng Wang , Fan Li , Xiuhai Mao , Fei Wang , Qi Li , Dekai Ye , Sisi Jia , Gang Liu , Min Li , Xiaolei Zuo , Chunhai Fan
{"title":"Massively multiplexed optical recording with polychromatic DNA frameworks","authors":"Lu Song , Ruiyan Guo , Li Pan , Yishakejiang Saimaiti , Shaopeng Wang , Fan Li , Xiuhai Mao , Fei Wang , Qi Li , Dekai Ye , Sisi Jia , Gang Liu , Min Li , Xiaolei Zuo , Chunhai Fan","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.10.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.10.020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rapid data growth highlights the increasing demand for high-density storage solutions. Multiplexed optical recording based on synthetic inorganic nanoparticles represents the next generation of data storage. However, diverse photophysical properties of nanoparticles reduce their reliability and information density. Here, we present a highly programmable polychromatic DNA tetrahedral framework (PDTF) that enables precise control over their optical performances. By programming the size of PDTFs, we reduce the feature size of the recording medium to 3.4 nm, which was 41-fold smaller than that of commercially available Blu-ray technology. PDTF chains with up to 47 million distinct color codes further enhance optical storage with higher information capacity. Additionally, nanopatterning technology integrates the PDTFs into on-chip architectures, achieving an impressive density of 25.9 Gb/cm<sup>2</sup>. Finally, the PDTFs demonstrate excellent re-writability and long-term stability (10,826 years at room temperature), exhibiting promising potential in high-density and secure data storage applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 2","pages":"Article 101902"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142673718","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 : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.021
Yan Bai , Longlu Wang , Xiang Zou , Ning Ding , Yuhui Feng , Zhen You , Weiwei Zhao , Weikang Wang , Feifei Lin , Yuzhe Chen , Yijie Zhang , Jianmin Li , Fangyi Guan , Shujuan Liu , Wei Huang , Qiang Zhao
{"title":"Atomic sulfur-bonded titanium carbide nanosheets for flexible piezoresistive sensor in monitoring sleep apnea syndrome","authors":"Yan Bai , Longlu Wang , Xiang Zou , Ning Ding , Yuhui Feng , Zhen You , Weiwei Zhao , Weikang Wang , Feifei Lin , Yuzhe Chen , Yijie Zhang , Jianmin Li , Fangyi Guan , Shujuan Liu , Wei Huang , Qiang Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2024.11.021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Flexible piezoresistive sensors have attracted great attention for the real-time monitoring of sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) through respiratory airflow. Although two-dimensional ultrathin Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub> is regarded as a promising piezoresistive material, its poor structural compressibility and antioxidation limit its practical applications. Here, an innovative atomic sulfur-bonded strategy is proposed to fabricate large-sized, crumpled, and antioxidative Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub>/Na<sub>2</sub>S (TS) flakes for preparing flexible piezoresistive sensors. The fundamental mechanism is rooted in the synergistic effect of lateral boundary assembly of Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub> nanosheets into large flakes (∼7 μm), lattice distortion to induce crumpled structures, and edge passivation by S<sup>2−</sup> ions to mitigate oxidation (105 days). The crumpled microstructure provides abundant voids for enhanced compressibility and contact site variability, resulting in a 5-fold sensitivity improvement over the Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub> sensor and an ultralow detection limit of 0.2 Pa. We demonstrate the practical application of highly sensitive and stable piezoresistive sensors integrated into a respiratory monitoring system for SAS detection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"8 2","pages":"Article 101927"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142832467","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}