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Van der Waals surface reconstruction for oriented epitaxial growth of two-dimensional metallic oxides www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Van der Waals surface reconstruction for oriented epitaxial growth of two-dimensional metallic oxides - Nature Materials
Large-scale growth of various two-dimensional metallic oxides with high crystalline quality is achieved via mica surface-reconstruction-assisted van der Waals epitaxy, enabling their exploration in qu...
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Jammed interconnected bilayer emulsions as 3D-printable biological tissue mimics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Jammed interconnected bilayer emulsions as 3D-printable biological tissue mimics - Nature Materials
The scalable formation of jammed interconnected bilayer emulsions provides a platform for replicating structural and functional properties of biological tissues.
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Unconventional skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unconventional skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets - Nature Materials
Skyrmions with opposite core polarity are found to form in a single sublattice of a compensated synthetic antiferromagnet, offering a route to programmable, layer-selective three-dimensional spin text...
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Wafer-scale growth of highly stable p-type semiconducting monolayer MoSi2N4 single crystals www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wafer-scale growth of highly stable p-type semiconducting monolayer MoSi2N4 single crystals - Nature Materials
Wafer-scale monolayer single crystals of p-type semiconducting MoSi2N4 are grown via chemical vapour deposition, and exhibit high mobility and stability.
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Switching from insertion to conversion for multielectron aqueous vanadium batteries www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Switching from insertion to conversion for multielectron aqueous vanadium batteries - Nature Materials
Conventional aqueous vanadium-ion batteries have low capacities, as the fundamental charge-storage mechanism is a one-electron insertion process. Here, using a mesoporous carbon shell approach, a four...
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Twist-angle-controlled anomalous gating in bilayer graphene/BN heterostructures www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Twist-angle-controlled anomalous gating in bilayer graphene/BN heterostructures - Nature Materials
Rotational misalignment between the top and bottom boron nitride layers encapsulating graphene acts as a switch for anomalous gating effects, such as gate ineffectiveness and hysteresis. These effects...
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Programming local confinements in crystalline frameworks through reticular chemistry www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Programming local confinements in crystalline frameworks through reticular chemistry - Nature Materials
Triazolate metal–organic frameworks with Zn5Cl4 nodes are formed with terminal Zn-bound groups pointing inwards, creating tunable confined pores. Post-synthetic chloride-to-hydroxide exchange yields d...
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Single-crystal-like polymer semiconductors via self-templated gradient assembly for ultrahigh charge carrier mobility www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-crystal-like polymer semiconductors via self-templated gradient assembly for ultrahigh charge carrier mobility - Nature Materials
High-performance polymer semiconductors are required for next-generation organic electronics. A strategy that modulates multi-scale structural ordering and controls the alignment of polymers yields si...
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High-Chern-number orbital magnetism in twisted rhombohedral graphene www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High-Chern-number orbital magnetism in twisted rhombohedral graphene - Nature Materials
Magnetotransport measurements and mean-field calculations of twisted monolayer–multilayer (1 + n) rhombohedral graphene reveals high-Chern-number orbital magnetism with Chern number C = n. Electrical ...
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Quantum tunnelling and leakage current across two-dimensional materials www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Quantum tunnelling and leakage current across two-dimensional materials - Nature Materials
Leakage current affects the operation and reliability of electronic devices, but obtaining accurate measurements of leakage current across two-dimensional (2D) materials has been difficult. This artic...
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An artificial neuromorphic interface for auditory restoration www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An artificial neuromorphic interface for auditory restoration - Nature Materials
Hearing loss affects millions of people, requiring technology to repair their auditory pathway. A biohybrid interface is developed that combines a self-powered acoustic device and an artificial audito...
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Intranasal DNA nanocarrier vaccines with surface-patterned antigens enhance efficacy against respiratory syncytial virus www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Intranasal DNA nanocarrier vaccines with surface-patterned antigens enhance efficacy against respiratory syncytial virus - Nature Materials
DNA-based nanocarrier vaccines with optimized surface antigen arrangements induce mucosal, humoral and cellular immunity and are effective intranasal vaccines for diverse respiratory diseases.
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Boundary geometry controls a topological defect transition that determines lumen nucleation in embryonic development www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Boundary geometry controls a topological defect transition that determines lumen nucleation in embryonic development - Nature Materials
The geometry of confining boundaries is shown to control three-dimensional topological defect configurations that precede formation of the central lumen in the developing mouse embryo, a key process i...
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Electron–phonon coupling and symmetry breaking in superconducting oxide interfaces near ferroelectric quantum criticality www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Electron–phonon coupling and symmetry breaking in superconducting oxide interfaces near ferroelectric quantum criticality - Nature Materials
Conductivity and superconductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface are well established. Now, in a layer-by-layer fashion, oxygen octahedra rotations, polar displacements and vibrational modes that are...
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Giant and broadband circular dichroism from particle–hole symmetry breaking in Weyl semimetals www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Giant and broadband circular dichroism from particle–hole symmetry breaking in Weyl semimetals - Nature Materials
The different Fermi velocities of particle and hole bands result in a giant mid-infrared circular dichroism in the magnetic Weyl semimetal Mn(Bi1−xSbx)2Te4.
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Methane storage using metal–dipyrazolate frameworks www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Methane storage using metal–dipyrazolate frameworks - Nature Materials
Reversible phase transformations enable flexible metal–bipyrazolate frameworks to offer high deliverable methane capacities, high stability and recyclability, indicating utility in natural gas storage...
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String-sliding vibrational modes govern the boson peak and phonon anomalies in amorphous materials www.nature.com/articles/s41...
String-sliding vibrational modes govern the boson peak and phonon anomalies in amorphous materials - Nature Materials
String-like collective motions in disordered materials are shown to give rise to characteristic vibrational modes, providing a microscopic explanation for the boson peak and its impact on thermal and ...
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Excitonic spin torque in a magnetic semiconductor www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excitonic spin torque in a magnetic semiconductor - Nature Materials
Distinct magnon dynamics are observed at high excitation pump power in the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic semiconductor CrSBr, and attributed to an interplay between excitons and magnetization.
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Chain entanglements enable regeneration of high-performance thermosets www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chain entanglements enable regeneration of high-performance thermosets - Nature Materials
Dense covalent networks enhance mechanical properties in thermoset materials but hinder recyclability. Glassy thermosets with load-bearing capacity driven by chain entanglements are shown, decoupling ...
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Polar nano-regions enable large spin Hall conductivity in metallic PtCoO2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Polar nano-regions enable large spin Hall conductivity in metallic PtCoO2 - Nature Materials
A large spin Hall conductivity is reported for the quasi-two-dimensional metallic delafossite PtCoO2 and attributed to polar lattice distortions that break inversion symmetry.
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Strain-insensitive wet-tissue-adhesive biphasic bioelectronics for physicochemical monitoring and adaptive therapy www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Strain-insensitive wet-tissue-adhesive biphasic bioelectronics for physicochemical monitoring and adaptive therapy - Nature Materials
A stretchable, strain-insensitive elastomer–hydrogel bioelectronics platform enables simultaneous physical sensing, chemical monitoring and neuromodulation for closed-loop disease management in diabet...
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Stretchable high-fill-factor silicon–liquid metal platform for multilevel visual acquisition and depth sensing www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Stretchable high-fill-factor silicon–liquid metal platform for multilevel visual acquisition and depth sensing - Nature Materials
High-density stretchable pixelated electronics are promising for next-generation robotic vision. By integrating single-crystalline silicon pixels with finely patterned liquid metal interconnects on el...
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Ultralow-voltage electrochemical organic light-emitting transistors with pinned and wide lateral recombination www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ultralow-voltage electrochemical organic light-emitting transistors with pinned and wide lateral recombination - Nature Materials
Organic light-emitting transistors require a large operating voltage and exhibit a narrow recombination zone, owing to inefficient charge injection. By incorporating an ion transport enhancer into lig...
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High impact resistance in a high-entropy alloy with thermally stable hierarchical heterostructures www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High impact resistance in a high-entropy alloy with thermally stable hierarchical heterostructures - Nature Materials
Face-centred cubic high-entropy alloys with a core–shell heterostructure, uniformly distributed nanoscale precipitates and oxide nanoparticles in the shell are developed. The hierarchical microstructu...
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Boosting ionic conductivity of single-ion conductive polyelectrolyte elastomers via high-dielectric plasticizers www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Boosting ionic conductivity of single-ion conductive polyelectrolyte elastomers via high-dielectric plasticizers - Nature Materials
Polyelectrolyte elastomers support selective and leakage-free ionic transport, but suffer from low ionic conductivity. A solid-state dielectric additive is introduced to various polyelectrolyte elasto...
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Magnetoelectric microrobots for spinal cord injury regeneration www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Magnetoelectric microrobots for spinal cord injury regeneration - Nature Materials
Microrobots made of human-induced pluripotent stem cells and magnetoelectric nanoparticles promote lesion repair and motor improvements after spinal cord injury in zebrafish and mice under magnetic gu...
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