MatterPub Date : 2026-10-07Epub Date: 2026-07-14DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2026.102921
Weida Zhang, Yusi Peng, Shuai Zhao, Dan Li, Yong Yang
{"title":"Electric field-engineered bimetallic MXene for ultra-sensitive SERS sensors","authors":"Weida Zhang, Yusi Peng, Shuai Zhao, Dan Li, Yong Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.102921","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.102921","url":null,"abstract":"<div><ul><li><span>•</span><span><div>An electric-field modulation strategy to activate non-metallic SERS</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>Electric field gating couples PEICT and PESP pathways via electronic tailoring</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>Ti<sub>2</sub>TaC<sub>2</sub> enables 10<sup>−13</sup> M detection with a 10<sup>3</sup>-fold sensitivity gain</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>The electric-tunable SERS response can extend to diverse molecular probes</div></span></li></ul></div><div>Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a powerful technique for trace molecular analysis, yet many non-metallic substrates are still limited by insufficient enhancement capability, making reproducible order-of-magnitude gains in sensitivity difficult to achieve. A key challenge in this field is how to cooperatively and controllably regulate the charge transfer and plasmon-associated electromagnetic enhancement, thereby overcoming the SERS performance bottleneck of conventional non-metallic substrates. In this work, we introduce external electric-field modulation as an active enhancement strategy for bimetallic MXenes. The applied field enables the near-Fermi electronic structure, carrier distribution, and surface plasmon response to be tuned after the fabrication of non-metallic SERS substrates, thereby cooperatively amplifying the photoelectric charge transfer and electromagnetic enhancement. This work establishes an electrically programmable design paradigm for SERS substrates by introducing electrical tunability, through which the charge-transfer and electromagnetic enhancement pathways can be modulated. More broadly, the developed electric-field modulation strategy could be extended to other quasi-metallic or semiconductor materials, providing a practical route to the tunable, high-sensitivity, non-noble-metal SERS sensors and advancing their trace analysis in chemical sensing, environmental monitoring, and biomedical detection.</div><div><div>Advances in ultra-sensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates and SERS enhancement strategies are the two fundamental pillars for the development of SERS technology. However, broadly applicable strategies that reproducibly achieve order-of-magnitude improvements in SERS sensitivity remain scarce. Herein, we propose an electric-field modulation strategy to simultaneously stimulate photo-electric-induced charge transfer (PEICT) and surface-plasmon enhancement (PESP). This strategy increases the density of states near the <em>E</em><sub><em>F</em></sub> and induces an upward shift of <em>E</em><sub><em>F</em></sub>, thereby lowering inter-band transition barriers and promoting surface electron localization. Guided by this strategy, a series of bimetallic MXene SERS-active substrates are theoretically predicted and experimentally reported for the first time. Under cooperative excitation with a 532-nm laser and a 300-V field, Ti<sub>2</sub>TaC<sub>2</sub>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"9 10","pages":"Article 102921"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149094453","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 : 2026-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2026.103027
Geoffrey A. Ozin
{"title":"When success is not enough","authors":"Geoffrey A. Ozin","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.103027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.103027","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Scientific careers are built around curiosity, persistence, achievement, and responsibility, but they can also narrow the distance between professional and personal identities. An unexpected interruption to my own career prompted me to reconsider this relationship and what academic culture communicates about continuity, vulnerability, and recovery. This Matter of Opinion is not an account of illness but a reflection on what such interruptions can teach us. I argue that scientific excellence is more sustainable when researchers retain identities broader than their output and when leaders make room for human vulnerability. The lesson is not to lower expectations. It is to build a scientific culture capable of surviving the unexpected.</div></div><div>Scientific careers are built around curiosity, persistence, achievement, and responsibility, but they can also narrow the distance between professional and personal identities. An unexpected interruption to my own career prompted me to reconsider this relationship and what academic culture communicates about continuity, vulnerability, and recovery. This Matter of Opinion is not an account of illness but a reflection on what such interruptions can teach us. I argue that scientific excellence is more sustainable when researchers retain identities broader than their output and when leaders make room for human vulnerability. The lesson is not to lower expectations. It is to build a scientific culture capable of surviving the unexpected.</div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"9 10","pages":"Article 103027"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149094997","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":"Overcoming the permeability-selectivity trade-off in monovalent ion sieving via hydration-layer-mediated transport","authors":"Shengjie Fan, Guodong Hu, Jia Liu, Xinyu Cui, Linfeng Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.103041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.103041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The simultaneous achievement of high selectivity and permeance remains a critical challenge. Yang et al. report a hydration-layer-mediated sieving strategy using a covalent organic framework membrane, enabling highly selective K<sup>+</sup> transport (K<sup>+</sup>/Li<sup>+</sup> selectivity of 148) with a permeance of 2 × 10<sup>4</sup> mol m<sup>−2</sup> h<sup>−1</sup>. This breakthrough establishes a new paradigm for high-performance ion-selective membranes.</div></div><div>The simultaneous achievement of high selectivity and permeance remains a critical challenge. Yang et al. report a hydration-layer-mediated sieving strategy using a covalent organic framework membrane, enabling highly selective K<sup>+</sup> transport (K<sup>+</sup>/Li<sup>+</sup> selectivity of 148) with a permeance of 2 × 10<sup>4</sup> mol m<sup>−2</sup> h<sup>−1</sup>. This breakthrough establishes a new paradigm for high-performance ion-selective membranes.</div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"9 10","pages":"Article 103041"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149094999","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 : 2026-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2026.103045
Jiheon Kim, Edward H. Sargent
{"title":"Agentifying the scientific method","authors":"Jiheon Kim, Edward H. Sargent","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.103045","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.103045","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Automation in materials research has targeted the making; the scientific method—hypothesizing, designing discriminating experiments, judging what the data mean—has remained human. This preview highlights a study by Ghareeb, Chang, and colleagues in which a multi-agent system takes on those stages and asks what that means for materials discovery.</div></div><div>Automation in materials research has targeted the making; the scientific method—hypothesizing, designing discriminating experiments, judging what the data mean—has remained human. This preview highlights a study by Ghareeb, Chang, and colleagues in which a multi-agent system takes on those stages and asks what that means for materials discovery.</div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"9 10","pages":"Article 103045"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149095002","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 : 2026-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2026.103039
Zhangyi Xiong, Zhijie Chen
{"title":"Cucurbituril-polymer-based supramolecular assembly materials for high-efficiency anion-conducting membranes","authors":"Zhangyi Xiong, Zhijie Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.103039","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.103039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A fundamental challenge in the development of anion-conducting membranes lies in the trade-off between ion-transport efficiency and long-term durability. To address this, Liu and coworkers introduced a supramolecular strategy based on host-guest assembly of rigid cucurbit[7]uril (CB[7]) macrocycles and a cationic quaternized poly(piperidinium-terphenyl) (QPPT) polymer, thereby creating a continuous network of uniform and dynamic nanopores. At an optimal CB[7] loading of 30 wt %, the resulting QPPT-CB[7]-30 wt % membrane exploits this dynamic confinement to achieve simultaneously enhanced hydroxide conductivity and mechano-chemical robustness and effectively resolve the long-standing conflict between performance and stability.</div></div><div>A fundamental challenge in the development of anion-conducting membranes lies in the trade-off between ion-transport efficiency and long-term durability. To address this, Liu and coworkers introduced a supramolecular strategy based on host-guest assembly of rigid cucurbit[7]uril (CB[7]) macrocycles and a cationic quaternized poly(piperidinium-terphenyl) (QPPT) polymer, thereby creating a continuous network of uniform and dynamic nanopores. At an optimal CB[7] loading of 30 wt %, the resulting QPPT-CB[7]-30 wt % membrane exploits this dynamic confinement to achieve simultaneously enhanced hydroxide conductivity and mechano-chemical robustness and effectively resolve the long-standing conflict between performance and stability.</div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"9 10","pages":"Article 103039"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149095256","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 : 2026-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2026.103042
Jonathan J. Woods, Khaled W. Al-Shwafy, Elien Lemmens, Bert F. Sels
{"title":"Extending the thread: Spinning wood into textiles","authors":"Jonathan J. Woods, Khaled W. Al-Shwafy, Elien Lemmens, Bert F. Sels","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.103042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.103042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Converting wood-derived cellulose into woven textiles offers a promising route to reducing water and land demands associated with conventional natural fibers. However, widespread adoption of current wood-derived fiber methods has been hindered by chemically intensive and costly processing. New research combines the mechanical fibrillation of wood fibers with partial fiber dissolution to wet-spin high-strength filaments composed entirely of cellulose.</div></div><div>Converting wood-derived cellulose into woven textiles offers a promising route to reducing water and land demands associated with conventional natural fibers. However, widespread adoption of current wood-derived fiber methods has been hindered by chemically intensive and costly processing. New research combines the mechanical fibrillation of wood fibers with partial fiber dissolution to wet-spin high-strength filaments composed entirely of cellulose.</div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"9 10","pages":"Article 103042"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149095257","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 : 2026-10-07Epub Date: 2026-07-20DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2026.102923
Yang Wang, Zhoufu Zheng, Xuegang Zhang, Ya He, Tao Li, Yong Xiao, Haibin Yang, Jie Zhong, Dianlong Yu, Jihong Wen
{"title":"Extremal elastic metamaterials for robust underwater sound absorption via morphogenesis design","authors":"Yang Wang, Zhoufu Zheng, Xuegang Zhang, Ya He, Tao Li, Yong Xiao, Haibin Yang, Jie Zhong, Dianlong Yu, Jihong Wen","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.102923","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.102923","url":null,"abstract":"<div><ul><li><span>•</span><span><div>Morphological computation enables inverse design of extremal elastic metamaterials</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>Extremal elastic metamaterials decouple wave speed and static modulus</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>Elastic metamaterials combined with viscoelastic rubber achieve robust sound absorption</div></span></li></ul></div><div>Underwater sound-absorbing materials offer considerable potential to enhance sensing and stealth capabilities in marine exploration. However, their acoustic performance often degrades under the high-pressure conditions of deep-sea environments. This work addresses a fundamental design challenge: decoupling wave propagation speed from static modulus in engineered materials. Through morphological computation, we have developed an extremal elastic metamaterial that exhibits both high modulus, which resists ambient pressure, and slow wave propagation, enabling low-frequency resonance. By integrating this metamaterial with viscoelastic rubber, we establish a paradigm for underwater sound absorption that exhibits exceptional pressure robustness across a broad range of pressure conditions. Our findings resolve a fundamental conflict between static and dynamic properties in solids, establishing a foundation for the next generation of deep-sea acoustic materials.</div><div><div>The static modulus of natural solids fundamentally scales with the square of elastic wave speed. This intrinsic coupling has long constrained the development of underwater sound-absorbing materials, which demand both high modulus and slow wave propagation for deep-sea applications. This property trade-off causes existing materials to suffer pressure-induced performance degradation. Here, we overcome this fundamental limitation through morphogenesis design, leading to the discovery of an extremal elastic metamaterial. By engineering a tailored distribution of hard and soft modes with weakly coupled isotropic-isochoric eigenmodes, the metamaterial achieves unprecedented decoupling between static modulus and wave speed, delivering a 6.8-fold modulus enhancement relative to the theoretical limit of isotropic materials. Transcending prior designs, a composite integrating this metamaterial with rubber demonstrates pressure-invariant underwater sound absorption, maintaining an average coefficient exceeding 0.9 across a three-octave low-frequency band under extreme pressures up to 4.5 MPa.</div></div><div>The static modulus of natural solids fundamentally scales with the square of elastic wave speed. This intrinsic coupling has long constrained the development of underwater sound-absorbing materials, which demand both high modulus and slow wave propagation for deep-sea applications. This property trade-off causes existing materials to suffer pressure-induced performance degradation. Here, we overcome this fundamental limitation through morphogenesis design, leading to the discovery of an extre","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"9 10","pages":"Article 102923"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148624189","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 : 2026-10-07Epub Date: 2026-07-16DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2026.102922
Antonia S. Kuhn, Jurģis Ruža, KyuJung Jun, Pablo Leon, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli
{"title":"Computational discovery of polymer electrolytes with Bayesian optimization and high-throughput molecular dynamics simulations","authors":"Antonia S. Kuhn, Jurģis Ruža, KyuJung Jun, Pablo Leon, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.102922","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.102922","url":null,"abstract":"<div><ul><li><span>•</span><span><div>Computationally optimized a large hypothetical polymer electrolyte space</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>Developed a literature- and chemistry-inspired Bayesian optimization framework</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>Revealed insights into the design of next-generation polymer electrolytes</div></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><div>Confirmed chemical fragments that enhance ion-hopping in polymer electrolytes</div></span></li></ul></div><div>Solid-state polymer electrolytes present a safer alternative to conventional liquid systems for high-energy-density batteries, yet discovering candidates that balance high ionic conductivity with optimal transport properties remains a fundamental challenge. To address this, we developed a high-throughput computational screening platform that couples molecular dynamics simulations with a literature-informed Bayesian optimization model. By navigating a chemical space of 1.7 million synthetically accessible polymers, the framework identified several homopolymer candidates with transport properties exceeding those of the benchmark polyethylene oxide (PEO) system. Mechanistic analysis of the resulting dataset revealed actionable structure-property relationships: branched, bottlebrush-like architectures enhance overall ionic conductivity, while ketone and hydroxyl functional groups facilitate highly efficient interchain ion-hopping. These guiding molecular principles provide a concrete structural blueprint for engineering next-generation materials, including novel copolymers and single-ion conductors for both lithium and sodium applications. By making our framework and dataset openly available, this data-driven methodology establishes a highly adaptable foundation to accelerate the discovery of liquid, gel, and multi-cation electrolytes across the broader energy storage domain.</div><div><div>Polymer electrolytes are critical for safe, high-energy-density solid-state batteries, yet discovering candidates that balance high ionic conductivity with high transference numbers remains a significant challenge. In this work, we develop a high-throughput computational screening platform that utilizes molecular dynamics simulations to navigate a chemical space of 1.7 million hypothetical polymer electrolyte candidates. Data from previous literature are used to warm-start batch Bayesian optimization to iteratively select new polymer electrolytes. We identified, evaluated, and analyzed 767 homopolymers as potential candidates. Our results reveal several candidates with transport properties exceeding those of the benchmark polyethylene oxide (PEO)/LiTFSI system. Crucially, our optimization campaigns for ionic conductivity and Li-diffusivity demonstrate that branched architectures enhance ionic conductivity and ketone functional groups enhance ion-hopping mechanisms within the polymer matrix. We provide an in-depth mechanistic comparison of Li vs. Na cation trans","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"9 10","pages":"Article 102922"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148462034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MatterPub Date : 2026-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2026.103051
Siyi Wang, Hao Chen, Xiaojin Zhang
{"title":"Mediator-directed colloidal assembly for scalable photonic films","authors":"Siyi Wang, Hao Chen, Xiaojin Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.103051","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.103051","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recently, Li et al. showed that functional monomers first mediate rapid shear ordering of colloids, then polymerize into a robust matrix, resolving the speed–order–strength trade-off. Roll-to-roll processing yields 15-μm photonic films up to 4,000 m long at 25 m min⁻<sup>1</sup>, with vivid color and strain- and solvent-responsive optics.</div></div><div>Recently, Li et al. showed that functional monomers first mediate rapid shear ordering of colloids, then polymerize into a robust matrix, resolving the speed–order–strength trade-off. Roll-to-roll processing yields 15-μm photonic films up to 4,000 m long at 25 m min⁻<sup>1</sup>, with vivid color and strain- and solvent-responsive optics.</div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"9 10","pages":"Article 103051"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149094998","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 : 2026-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2026.102963
Ningning Cao, Zhen Yu, Changqing Ye, Jie Kong, Lijun Zhang
{"title":"When shielding is no longer enough: A new reinforced-concrete-inspired aerogel for electromagnetic energy management","authors":"Ningning Cao, Zhen Yu, Changqing Ye, Jie Kong, Lijun Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.102963","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.matt.2026.102963","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As electromagnetic environments become increasingly complex, there is a growing need to manipulate electromagnetic energy in a controllable manner. This work highlights a reinforced-concrete-inspired structural design strategy that integrates conductive networks with functional matrices to coordinate multiple properties within a single hierarchical architecture. Such an approach enables scalable fabrication while simultaneously achieving omnidirectional ultra-low reflection, excellent mechanical resilience, and intrinsic flame retardancy. Beyond the specific material system, this work also demonstrates how architecture-guided multifunctional integration may provide a new design paradigm for next-generation electromagnetic materials, in which electromagnetic wave attenuation, structural integrity, thermal management, and scalability can be coordinated through hierarchical organization rather than pursued independently.</div></div><div>As electromagnetic environments become increasingly complex, there is a growing need to manipulate electromagnetic energy in a controllable manner. This work highlights a reinforced-concrete-inspired structural design strategy that integrates conductive networks with functional matrices to coordinate multiple properties within a single hierarchical architecture. Such an approach enables scalable fabrication while simultaneously achieving omnidirectional ultra-low reflection, excellent mechanical resilience, and intrinsic flame retardancy. Beyond the specific material system, this work also demonstrates how architecture-guided multifunctional integration may provide a new design paradigm for next-generation electromagnetic materials, in which electromagnetic wave attenuation, structural integrity, thermal management, and scalability can be coordinated through hierarchical organization rather than pursued independently.</div>","PeriodicalId":388,"journal":{"name":"Matter","volume":"9 10","pages":"Article 102963"},"PeriodicalIF":15.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149095003","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}