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Magnetic order as a tuning knob for Coulomb correlation
Nature Materials, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02122-z
Antiferromagnetic order blocks interlayer hopping of electron–hole pairs in a two-dimensional magnetic semiconductor, leading to the formation of a type of optical excitation — magnetic surface excitons — with quasi-one-dimensional quantum confinement.
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Magnetically confined surface and bulk excitons in a layered antiferromagnet
Nature Materials, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02129-6
The emergence of magnetically confined surface excitons enabled by antiferromagnetic spin correlations is reported, which leads to the confinement of excitons to the surface of layered antiferromagnet CrSBr.
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Controlling Coulomb correlations and fine structure of quasi-one-dimensional excitons by magnetic order
Nature Materials, Published online: 19 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02120-1
The antiferromagnetic-to-paramagnetic phase transition in a two-dimensional semiconducting magnet, CrSBr, induces an exciton confinement transition from a strongly bound quasi-one-dimensional state to a weakly bound interlayer-delocalized state.
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Blood–brain-barrier-crossing lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery to the central nervous system
Nature Materials, Published online: 17 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-02114-5
A lipid-nanoparticle-based formulation incorporating engineered lipids containing a blood–brain-barrier-crossing moiety effectively delivers mRNA to neurons and astrocytes following systemic administration in mice.
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Lean design of a strong and ductile dual-phase titanium–oxygen alloy
Nature Materials, Published online: 17 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02118-9
A hexagonal-close-packed/face-centred-cubic dual-phase titanium–oxygen alloy is lean designed and fabricated by laser-based powder bed fusion using titanium powders with customized oxide-layer thickness. The as-printed alloy achieves an excellent combination of high strength and ductility.
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Low-power 2D gate-all-around logics via epitaxial monolithic 3D integration
Nature Materials, Published online: 14 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02117-w
A multi-layer wafer-scale 2D gate-all-around system with an atomically smooth interface fabricated via epitaxial monolithic 3D integration shows good performance and power efficiency, holding promise for the forthcoming ångström technology node.
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Dielectric polymers with mechanical bonds for high-temperature capacitive energy storage
Nature Materials, Published online: 14 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02130-z
Here a strategy is proposed to increase the temperature stability of polymer dielectrics by using mechanical bonding from cyclic polyethers to damp the local vibrations of polymer chains, thus inhibiting high-temperature charge transport and enabling a discharged energy density of 4.1 J cm−3 with 90% efficiency at 250 °C.
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Layers split and zip for phase transition
Nature Materials, Published online: 13 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02148-3
In situ high-resolution electron microscopy reveals that an electrically controlled metal-to-semiconductor phase transition in In2Se3 operates by intralayer splitting and interlayer zipping of atomic planes.
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Activating deformation twinning in cubic boron nitride
Nature Materials, Published online: 12 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-02111-8
Deformation twinning, a key deformation mechanism that is rarely explored in superhard materials, is shown to be activated in cubic boron nitride and other cubic covalent materials under a loading-specific twinning criterion.
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Anomalous thermal transport in Eshelby twisted van der Waals nanowires
Nature Materials, Published online: 12 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-02108-3
The thermal transport properties of Eshelby twisted van der Waals GeS nanowire are investigated as model systems for thermal transport. The thermal conductivity of these systems are found to display anomalous behaviour with thermal conductivity with decreased nanowire diameter.
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A cryogenic memristor
Nature Materials, Published online: 11 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02125-w
Tunable anomalous Hall resistive states of magnetic topological insulators are utilized to achieve analogue in-memory computing at cryogenic temperatures.
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Adding superconductivity to highly coherent electronic spins
Nature Materials, Published online: 10 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02139-4
An advance in fabricating superconducting contacts to germanium leads to new tools for controlling the quantum state of electrons in quantum dots.
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A quantum dot in germanium proximitized by a superconductor
Nature Materials, Published online: 10 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-02095-5
The authors achieve gate-controlled proximitization of a quantum dot in a planar germanium heterostructure, an isotopically purifiable group IV material. A patterned Pt germanosilicide superconductor is introduced via a thermally activated reaction.
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General approach for synthesizing hexagonal diamond by heating post-graphite phases
Nature Materials, Published online: 10 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02126-9
Synthesis of millimetre-sized hexagonal diamond has been demonstrated, facilitated by the formation of intermediate post-graphite phases and temperature gradients.
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Iterative sublattice amorphization facilitates exceptional processability in inorganic semiconductors
Nature Materials, Published online: 07 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-02112-7
Sublattice amorphization is revealed as the deformation mechanism of Ag2Te1–xSx (0.3 ≤ x ≤ 0.6), based on which an iterative crystalline–amorphous transition strategy is proposed to enable these bulk inorganic semiconductors with metal-like processability.
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Room-temperature anisotropic in-plane spin dynamics in graphene induced by PdSe<sub>2</sub> proximity
Nature Materials, Published online: 07 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-02109-2
Pentagonal PdSe2 induces anisotropic, gate-tunable spin–orbit coupling in graphene, enabling a tenfold modulation of in-plane spin lifetimes at room temperature and providing opportunities to control spin dynamics in van der Waals materials.
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YBa<sub>2</sub>Cu<sub>3</sub>O<sub>7</sub> as a high-temperature superinductor
Nature Materials, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-02107-4
Pearl inductance in thin films of YBCO enables terahertz superinductance and achieves impedance surpassing the quantum resistance limit, promising advancements in quantum and photonic technologies.
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Publisher Correction: Compact angle-resolved metasurface spectrometer
Nature Materials, Published online: 03 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02159-0
Publisher Correction: Compact angle-resolved metasurface spectrometer
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Increasing capacity with mixed conductors
Nature Materials, Published online: 03 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-02105-6
Mixed conductors streamline ion and electron pathways, boosting the capacity of sulfur electrodes in all-solid-state Li–S batteries.
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A market for metal–organic frameworks
Nature Materials, Published online: 03 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02147-4
The sorption and storage properties of metal–organic frameworks are extensively reported but their commercialization has been slow. Collaborative efforts from scientists, engineers and investors are needed to accelerate the transition from laboratory to the marketplace.
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