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A 3-GPa ductile martensitic alloy enabled by interface complexes and dislocations
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A 3-GPa ductile martensitic alloy enabled by interface complexes and dislocations - Nature Materials
A martensitic alloy with a tensile strength exceeding 3 GPa and a fracture elongation of 5.13% is developed. These mechanical properties arise from interface complexes interacting with dense dislocati...
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February 5, 2026 at 10:25 AM
A 3-GPa ductile martensitic alloy enabled by interface complexes and dislocations
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A free energy landscape analysis of resistance fluctuations in a memristive device
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A free energy landscape analysis of resistance fluctuations in a memristive device - Nature Materials
Resistance noise in memristive devices is often described as a thermally activated process across simple energy barriers, but this can underestimate the role of entropy in a complex free energy landsc...
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February 4, 2026 at 10:18 AM
A free energy landscape analysis of resistance fluctuations in a memristive device
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Our February issue is live! Read about spin-locking of light, additives for perovskite-silicon tandem cells, and self-healing organic crystals. We also feature a Review on AI-driven approaches on materials discovery and much more. 👇
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February 4, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Our February issue is live! Read about spin-locking of light, additives for perovskite-silicon tandem cells, and self-healing organic crystals. We also feature a Review on AI-driven approaches on materials discovery and much more. 👇
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Water-soluble hexagonal BaAl2O4 as sacrificial layer for freestanding crystalline membranes and flexible devices
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Water-soluble hexagonal BaAl2O4 as sacrificial layer for freestanding crystalline membranes and flexible devices - Nature Materials
Freestanding membranes of hexagonal oxides remain difficult to obtain. In this work, a water-soluble crystalline hexagonal BaAl2O4 is found to serve as a sacrificial layer for obtaining freestanding m...
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February 2, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Water-soluble hexagonal BaAl2O4 as sacrificial layer for freestanding crystalline membranes and flexible devices
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Collective photon emission and ferroelectric exciton ordering near Mott insulating state in WSe2/WS2 heterobilayers
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Collective photon emission and ferroelectric exciton ordering near Mott insulating state in WSe2/WS2 heterobilayers - Nature Materials
Ferroelectric ordering of moiré excitons and collective photon emission emerge in WSe2/WS2 heterobilayers near the Mott state driven by strong dipolar interactions and a transition to symmetry-broken ...
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February 2, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Collective photon emission and ferroelectric exciton ordering near Mott insulating state in WSe2/WS2 heterobilayers
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Revealing key structures for reversible sulfur redox in amorphous polymeric sulfur
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Revealing key structures for reversible sulfur redox in amorphous polymeric sulfur - Nature Materials
Amorphous sulfurized polyacrylonitrile suppresses polysulfide shuttling in Li–S batteries, enabling long cycle life, but the structural processes involved during synthesis and initial cycling remained...
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January 30, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Revealing key structures for reversible sulfur redox in amorphous polymeric sulfur
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Unexpected strong paramagnetism of hydrogels containing carbon–oxygen double bonds induced by calcium cations
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Unexpected strong paramagnetism of hydrogels containing carbon–oxygen double bonds induced by calcium cations - Nature Materials
Strong paramagnetism is generated in hydrogels rich in carbon–oxygen double bonds simply by coupling with diamagnetic Ca cations. These paramagnetic hydrogels are applied as magnetic resonance imaging...
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January 30, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Unexpected strong paramagnetism of hydrogels containing carbon–oxygen double bonds induced by calcium cations
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Narrowband quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride with optically addressable spins
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Narrowband quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride with optically addressable spins - Nature Materials
Producing isolated single-photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride with predefined spin transitions is challenging. Oxygen annealing enables the controlled fabrication of narrowband quantum emitters...
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January 28, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Narrowband quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride with optically addressable spins
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Achieving high tensile strength and ductility in refractory alloys by tuning electronic structure
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Achieving high tensile strength and ductility in refractory alloys by tuning electronic structure - Nature Materials
Guided by density functional theory, a commercially viable refractory alloy is developed, which exhibits excellent room-temperature ductility and strength, and high strength at elevated temperatures.
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January 27, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Achieving high tensile strength and ductility in refractory alloys by tuning electronic structure
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How charge frustration causes ion ordering and microphase separation at surfaces
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How charge frustration causes ion ordering and microphase separation at surfaces - Nature Materials
Atomic force microscopy is used to investigate the adsorption and organization of ions on charged surfaces. Trivalent ions adopt complex networks, clusters and layers associated with overcharging, whe...
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January 27, 2026 at 11:40 AM
How charge frustration causes ion ordering and microphase separation at surfaces
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Cell viscosity influences haematogenous dissemination and metastatic extravasation of tumour cells
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Cell viscosity influences haematogenous dissemination and metastatic extravasation of tumour cells - Nature Materials
The viscosity of tumour cells is shown to govern their ability to disseminate through the bloodstream and extravasate, establishing a key biomechanical factor of metastasis.
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January 23, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Cell viscosity influences haematogenous dissemination and metastatic extravasation of tumour cells
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Large-area non-stoichiometric phase transition in transition metal chalcogenide films
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Large-area non-stoichiometric phase transition in transition metal chalcogenide films - Nature Materials
Controllable and scalable phase transition of transition metal chalcogenides is challenging. Using in situ microscopic analysis, a non-stoichiometric phase transition from PdTe2 to PdTe is observed on...
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January 22, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Large-area non-stoichiometric phase transition in transition metal chalcogenide films
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Heterogeneous doping via nanoscale coating impacts the mechanics of Li intrusion in brittle solid electrolytes
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Heterogeneous doping via nanoscale coating impacts the mechanics of Li intrusion in brittle solid electrolytes - Nature Materials
Short-circuiting during fast charging through lithium dendrite intrusion into electrolytes is a major challenge in solid-state batteries. Here, using thermally annealed 3-nm-thick Ag coatings, lithium...
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January 22, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Heterogeneous doping via nanoscale coating impacts the mechanics of Li intrusion in brittle solid electrolytes
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Quasi-non-volatile capacitorless DRAM based on ultralow-leakage edge-contact MoS2 transistors
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Quasi-non-volatile capacitorless DRAM based on ultralow-leakage edge-contact MoS2 transistors - Nature Materials
An in situ multistep edge-contact process is developed for MoS2 transistors, achieving quasi-non-volatile capacitorless two-transistor dynamic random-access memory with 5-bit accuracy and nanosecond w...
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January 21, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Quasi-non-volatile capacitorless DRAM based on ultralow-leakage edge-contact MoS2 transistors
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Wafer-scale monolayer dielectric integration on atomically thin semiconductors.
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Wafer-scale monolayer dielectric integration on atomically thin semiconductors - Nature Materials
Wafer-scale monolayer MoO3 enables the integration of dielectrics with ultralow capacitance equivalent thickness on atomically thin semiconductors, achieving high yield and effective operation of n-ty...
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January 19, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Wafer-scale monolayer dielectric integration on atomically thin semiconductors.
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Gate structuring on n-type bilayer MoS2 field-effect transistors for ultrahigh current density.
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Gate structuring on n-type bilayer MoS2 field-effect transistors for ultrahigh current density - Nature Materials
A dual-gate structure in bilayer MoS2 FETs is reported, allowing a high carrier density by compensating for the fringing field, which holds promise for 2D semiconductor logic applications.
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January 19, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Gate structuring on n-type bilayer MoS2 field-effect transistors for ultrahigh current density.
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Monolithic cell-on-memristor architecture enables wafer-scale integration of oscillatory chemoreceptors for bio-realistic gustatory chips.
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Monolithic cell-on-memristor architecture enables wafer-scale integration of oscillatory chemoreceptors for bio-realistic gustatory chips - Nature Materials
The fabrication of conventional artificial chemoreceptors are difficult to scale up. Here a wafer scale cell-on-memristor chemoreceptive array is reported, allowing for self-powered biosensing and in ...
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January 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Monolithic cell-on-memristor architecture enables wafer-scale integration of oscillatory chemoreceptors for bio-realistic gustatory chips.
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