Nature Materials is a multidisciplinary journal aimed at bringing together cutting-edge research across the entire spectrum of materials science and technology. Nature Materials covers all applied and fundamental aspects of the synthesis/processing, structure/composition, properties and performance of materials. Nature Materials provides a forum for the development of a common identity among materials scientists while encouraging researchers to cross established subdisciplinary lines. To achieve this, Nature Materials takes an interdisciplinary, integrated and balanced approach to all areas of materials research while fostering the exchange of ideas between scientists involved in different communities.
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Atomic-scale frustrated Josephson coupling and multicondensate visualization in FeSe
Nature Materials, Published online: 22 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02290-y
Atomic-resolution scanned Josephson tunnelling microscopy on multigap superconductor FeSe single crystals is studied, demonstrating condensate-resolved imaging and tuning capabilities.
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An amorphous Li–V–O–F cathode with tetrahedral coordination and O–O formal redox at low voltage
Nature Materials, Published online: 22 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02293-9
Cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries typically possess octahedral coordination, which may exclude other possible solutions to degradation during deep cycling. A series of tetrahedral-framework-based amorphous Li–V–O–F materials are investigated, and shown to demonstrate O–O formal redox at 4.1 V.
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Deep learning unlocks antimicrobial self-assembling peptides
Nature Materials, Published online: 21 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02299-3
A deep-learning framework identifies peptides that show antimicrobial activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria, eradicate biofilms, and treat intestinal bacterial infection in mice.
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Pure-blue single-layer organic light-emitting diodes based on trap-free hyperfluorescence
Nature Materials, Published online: 21 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02294-8
Single-layer organic light-emitting diodes based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence are demonstrated, exhibiting pure-blue emission, high quantum and power efficiencies, and operational stability.
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Organic solar cells with 21% efficiency enabled by a hybrid interfacial layer with dual-component synergy
Nature Materials, Published online: 18 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02305-8
A hybrid cathode interfacial layer (AZnO-F3N) is developed, delivering 21.0% efficiency along with excellent stability, mechanical robustness and broad versatility, highlighting its potential to advance organic solar cells.
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Solvent co-intercalation in layered cathode active materials for sodium-ion batteries
Nature Materials, Published online: 18 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02287-7
Solvent co-intercalation into graphite anodes for sodium-ion batteries is common; however, intercalation into cathodes is much less explored. Here, using operando experiments as well as theory, solvent co-intercalation in a range of layered sulfides is investigated.
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Intrinsic defects unlock the growth of rhombohedral stacking
Nature Materials, Published online: 17 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02292-w
Wafer-scale growth of rhombohedral-stacked molybdenum disulfide is achieved through homoepitaxy promoted by intrinsic defects, which enables scalable and fatigue-resistant ferroelectric field-effect transistors.
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A tug-of-war recipe for nanoscale swirls
Nature Materials, Published online: 16 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02288-6
Mixed ceramics and thin films of well-known ferroelectric and antiferroelectric materials reveal dipolar skyrmions, providing a scalable platform to explore the properties and applications of non-collinear polarization textures.
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Beneficial redox activity of halide solid electrolytes empowering high-performance anodes in all-solid-state batteries
Nature Materials, Published online: 16 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02296-6
All-solid-state batteries are potentially superior to Li-ion batteries, but to maximize performance, the solid electrolyte needs to be compatible with high-performance anodes. Halide solid electrolytes are shown to possess dynamic stability that extends beyond the electrochemical stability window, allowing improved full-cell performance.
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Harvesting singlet and triplet excitation energies in covalent organic frameworks for highly efficient photocatalysis
Nature Materials, Published online: 16 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02281-z
A strategy with donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks enhances photocatalysis by harnessing both singlet and triplet states, enabling metal-free, co-catalyst-free and sacrificial donor-free red-light-driven organic transformations with high efficiency.
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Long-lived hot carriers in a polymeric semiconductor
Nature Materials, Published online: 11 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02286-8
Hot carriers with high mobility and long diffusion length are observed in a two-dimensional conjugated coordination polymer.
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Programming precise nanoparticle patterns
Nature Materials, Published online: 09 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02262-2
Harnessing DNA-programmable bonds through inverse design, nanoparticles are directed to self-assemble into hierarchically ordered three-dimensional architectures, enabling the nanofabrication of complex, multifunctional materials.
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Encoding hierarchical 3D architecture through inverse design of programmable bonds
Nature Materials, Published online: 09 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02263-1
An inverse design strategy is reported for the organization of nanoscale matter using DNA-programmable bonds and the fabrication of hierarchically ordered 3D assemblies.
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Dispersion-tunable low-loss implanted spin-wave waveguides for large magnonic networks
Nature Materials, Published online: 09 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02282-y
Silicon-ion-implanted yttrium iron garnet technology enables low-loss and dispersion-tunable magnonic waveguides with spin-wave decay lengths of >100 µm, which pave the way for large-scale, energy-efficient magnonic integrated circuits.
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Homoepitaxial growth of large-area rhombohedral-stacked MoS<sub>2</sub>
Nature Materials, Published online: 09 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02274-y
Wafer-scale 3R-MoS2 with high phase purity is achieved through a homoepitaxy strategy, which demonstrates ferroelectricity and holds promise for multifunctional integration.
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Plastic processing of bulk semiconductors
Nature Materials, Published online: 08 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02283-x
Bulk inorganic semiconductors can show remarkable plasticity and extensibility, defying their inherent brittleness and enabling opportunities in advanced semiconductor manufacturing and processing.
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Author Correction: Ab initio structure solutions from nanocrystalline powder diffraction data via diffusion models
Nature Materials, Published online: 07 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02301-y
Author Correction: Ab initio structure solutions from nanocrystalline powder diffraction data via diffusion models
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Exploiting strained epitaxial germanium for scaling low-noise spin qubits at the micrometre scale
Nature Materials, Published online: 06 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02276-w
The authors measure electric and magnetic noise, an important source of decoherence for quantum devices, on hole spin qubit devices in quantum wells in Ge/SiGe heterostructures, revealing a reduced charge noise on devices fabricated on Ge wafers.
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Accelerated data-driven materials science with the Materials Project
Nature Materials, Published online: 03 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02272-0
Materials design and informatics have become increasingly prominent over the past several decades. Using the Materials Project as an example, this Perspective discusses how properties are calculated and curated, how this knowledge can be used for materials discovery, and the challenges in modelling complex material systems or managing software architecture.
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A carbon-nanotube-based electron source with a 0.3-eV energy spread and an unconventional time delay
Nature Materials, Published online: 02 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02279-7
Metal-tip-based electron sources are constrained by a trade-off between energy spread and pulse width. Here the authors report a carbon-nanotube-based electron source with a 0.3-eV energy spread and an electron pulse width of about 13 fs.
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