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Ultrafast surface melting of orbital order in La<sub>0.5</sub>Sr<sub>1.5</sub>MnO<sub>4</sub>
Nature Materials, Published online: 13 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02379-4
Time-resolved surface X-ray scattering is used to probe how light manipulates orbital order at the surface of a manganite. Femtosecond light is found to generate incoherent atomic disorder on an ultrafast timescale, consistent with the localization of polarons.
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Near-100% spontaneous rolling up of polar van der Waals materials
Nature Materials, Published online: 13 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02357-w
Spontaneous scrolling in two-dimensional polar van der Waals materials, driven by intrinsic out-of-plane electric polarization, enables the scalable production of nanoscrolls and their heterostructures.
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Using light to print metal oxides
Nature Materials, Published online: 10 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02371-y
A plasmonic printing technology is developed to enable rapid, room-temperature, scalable fabrication of all-metal oxide thin-film transistors and circuits.
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Publisher Correction: Bose–Einstein condensation of a two-magnon bound state in a spin-1 triangular lattice
Nature Materials, Published online: 10 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02399-0
Publisher Correction: Bose–Einstein condensation of a two-magnon bound state in a spin-1 triangular lattice
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Author Correction: Superconductivity and normal-state transport in compressively strained La<sub>2</sub>PrNi<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub> thin films
Nature Materials, Published online: 10 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02394-5
Author Correction: Superconductivity and normal-state transport in compressively strained La2PrNi2O7 thin films
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Giant photoconductance at infinite-layer nickelate/SrTiO<sub>3</sub> interfaces via an optically induced high-mobility electron gas
Nature Materials, Published online: 10 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02363-y
The electronic ground state of a correlated oxide interface is reversibly switched by light. Stemming from interfacial reconstructions, electrostatic confinement and photodoping, this effect opens a path towards engineering the optical response of oxides.
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Reprogrammable snapping morphogenesis in ribbon-cluster meta-units using stored elastic energy
Nature Materials, Published online: 10 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02370-z
Lantern-shaped ribbon cluster meta-units harness stored elastic energy to achieve over 13 distinct volumetric snapping morphologies, with potential applications in soft robotics, deployable devices and mechanical logic.
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Multiple freezing–melting pathways of high-density ice through ice XXI phase at room temperature
Nature Materials, Published online: 10 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02364-x
Multiple freezing–melting pathways of ice VI are found at room temperature, occurring via the ice XXI and ice VII phases. Supercompressed water structurally evolves from high-density water to very-high-density water.
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Relativistic Mott transition in twisted WSe<sub>2</sub> tetralayers
Nature Materials, Published online: 08 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02359-8
The authors present magnetotransport measurements of tetralayer WSe2, which serves as a simulator for correlated Dirac fermion physics. They tune the interactions using the twist angle and electric field, resulting in a semimetal–Mott insulator transition.
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Spectroscopic probe of spin current
Nature Materials, Published online: 03 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02365-w
Spectroscopic probe of spin current
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Quantitative and mechanistic insights into proton dynamics for fast energy storage
Nature Materials, Published online: 03 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02366-9
Contributions of vehicular and structural proton transport are quantified in phosphoric acid electrolytes, with linking structural diffusion to hydrogen bonds. The derived conductivity model guides electrolyte-conductivity trends and identifies 5.8 M for low-temperature batteries.
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Large moiré superstructure of stacked incommensurate charge density waves
Nature Materials, Published online: 01 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02360-1
The authors identify two coexisting incommensurate charge density waves whose interplay leads to joint commensuration and a long-period moiré structure.
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Amorphous phase-change memory alloy with no resistance drift
Nature Materials, Published online: 01 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02361-0
Resistance drift, also known as the temporal change in electrical resistance, hampers the application of phase-change materials for neuromorphic computing. Here an amorphous CrTe3 thin film with no resistance drift in the working temperature from −200 °C to 165 °C is reported.
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Entering the age of designer protein materials
Nature Materials, Published online: 30 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02372-x
Deep learning-based generative tools are used to design protein building blocks with well-defined directional protein bonding interactions, allowing for the generation of a variety of scalable protein assemblies from a small set of reusable subunits.
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Mechanical insights from functional materials
Nature Materials, Published online: 30 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02378-5
Our knowledge of deformation behaviour in functional materials is pushing the frontiers of mechanics, informing design strategies and enabling scalable manufacturing.
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Intrinsic intermolecular photoinduced charge separation in organic radical semiconductors
Nature Materials, Published online: 30 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02362-z
Homojunction intermolecular charge separation is reported in photoexcited anion–cation pairs induced by external electric field bias, opening possibilities for light harvesting using molecular semiconductors.
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Suppression of PCBM dimer formation in inverted perovskite solar cells
Nature Materials, Published online: 30 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02368-7
The authors develop a molecular dopant to avoid the dimerization of the electron-selective material phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester, resulting in enhanced stability and efficiency in inverted perovskite solar cells.
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Ions in solution drive action and satisfaction
Nature Materials, Published online: 29 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02341-4
Aqueous electrochemical reactions drive conductance switching, thereby imbuing perception and sensing to neuronal emulators.
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Mechanically liberating polarization bubbles in van der Waals ferroelectrics
Nature Materials, Published online: 29 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02346-z
Spherical polar topological structures are of interest as they could enable high-density memory applications; however, such texture formation requires superlattices with delicately balanced boundary conditions to form. Here it is found that these textures can form in free-standing CuInP2S6, and that mechanical force can generate high-density domains.
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Large linear high-frequency strain by interlocked monoclinic polar nanoregions
Nature Materials, Published online: 29 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02354-z
Advances have been made in thin-film piezoelectrics; however, the linearity of electric-field-induced strain with frequency and temperature still requires improvement. Here, by growing interlocked monoclinic and tetragonal polar nanoregions in (K,Na)NbO3 thin films, highly linear strains of up to 1.1% are reported at frequencies up to 105 Hz.
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