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Our last issue of 2025 issue is online!

Featuring a Focus on scalable quantum photonics and articles on qubit quantum sensors, 2D polyamide for anode-free batteries, plasmonic printing of metal electronics, hermetic stretchable seals and more. See it below!👇

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Nature Materials - Quantum photonics on a chip
Photonic technologies enable on-chip, scalable solutions for applications in quantum communications, quantum sensing and quantum computing.See Wang et al.
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Our last issue of 2025 issue is online!

Featuring a Focus on scalable quantum photonics and articles on qubit quantum sensors, 2D polyamide for anode-free batteries, plasmonic printing of metal electronics, hermetic stretchable seals and more. See it below!👇

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Nature Materials - Quantum photonics on a chip
Photonic technologies enable on-chip, scalable solutions for applications in quantum communications, quantum sensing and quantum computing.See Wang et al.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Efficient electron injection in stretchable OLED.

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Enabling efficient electron injection in stretchable OLED - Nature Materials
Insufficient electron injection remains a limiting factor for the performance of stretchable organic light-emitting diodes. Here designs for both electron transport layer and cathode in stretchable or...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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We also highlight a @natmater.nature.com study by Kota Oishi and colleagues on a framework for identifying zeolite intergrowths and drawing boundaries between feasible and unfeasible systems. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The feasibility of zeolite intergrowths - Nature Computational Science
Nature Computational Science - The feasibility of zeolite intergrowths
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November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Brownian spin-locking effect.

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Brownian spin-locking effect - Nature Materials
The authors report a large-scale spin-locking effect of light within a Brownian medium arising from the intrinsic spin–orbit interactions of scattering from multiple individual nanoparticles in a comp...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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A core–shell Ru-based electrolyser for acidic hydrogen evolution.

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Scalable ruthenium core–shell hydrogen catalyst for efficient and robust proton-exchange membrane electrolyser - Nature Materials
Green hydrogen production often needs Pt-based electrolysers; however, their high cost and lack of scalability hinder uptake. Here a core–shell Ru-based electrolyser is demonstrated for acidic hydroge...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Electronic switching of topology in LaSbTe.

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Electronic switching of topology in LaSbTe - Nature Materials
This study shows that the nodal loop topology in LaSbxTe2−x can be controlled by chemical substitution and electron doping. The reversible opening and closing of a gap larger than 400 meV in the nodal...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Mechanical non-reciprocity in soft composite solids.

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Mechanical non-reciprocity programmed by shear jamming in soft composite solids - Nature Materials
Using the shear jamming transition within soft composite solids, non-reciprocal mechanics are achieved for the asymmetric spatiotemporal control of soft materials.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Room-temperature quantum sensor from silicon carbide qubits.

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Non-invasive bioinert room-temperature quantum sensor from silicon carbide qubits - Nature Materials
Alkene-terminated silicon carbide surfaces are proposed as a room-temperature divacancy spin qubit quantum sensor suitable for bioimaging and nanoscale nuclear spin sensing.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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We have observed a beautifully strange phenomenon of phase separation by human monocytes placed on soft matrix, which do it for survival.

We model it by incorporating the Cahn–Hilliard equation with a Turing mechanism of local activation/global inhibition

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Mechano-induced patterned domain formation by monocytes - Nature Materials
Human primary monocytes reversibly phase separate into regular, multicellular, multilayered domains on soft matrices with physiological stiffness due to local activation and global inhibition processe...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Mechano-induced patterns of monocytes.

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Mechano-induced patterned domain formation by monocytes - Nature Materials
Human primary monocytes reversibly phase separate into regular, multicellular, multilayered domains on soft matrices with physiological stiffness due to local activation and global inhibition processe...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Pore network tortuosity controls fast charging in supercapacitors.

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Pore network tortuosity controls fast charging in supercapacitors - Nature Materials
Supercapacitors are fast-charging energy-storage devices. However, an understanding of how structure impacts high-power energy storage is still lacking. Here pulsed-field-gradient nuclear magnetic res...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Hybrid lithium niobate photonic platform for on-chip quantum networking.

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Large-scale quantum dot–lithium niobate hybrid integrated photonic circuits enabling on-chip quantum networking - Nature Materials
Individual spectral strain tuning of waveguide-coupled quantum dot single-photon emitters into a thin-film lithium niobate photonic platform is demonstrated, allowing quantum interference of two spati...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Asymmetric entangled nodes in multi-component polymer networks.

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Weaving-inspired asymmetric entangled nodes in multi-component polymer networks - Nature Materials
Using crosslinked entanglement induced by weaving-inspired asymmetric nodes, flexible polyurethane and rigid epoxy polymers are efficiently integrated into a single multi-component polymeric network.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Inflatable porous organic crystals.

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Inflatable porous organic crystals - Nature Materials
Reversible and unidirectional expansion of an acicular porous molecular crystal is observed with gas uptake. Using in situ structural and photomicrographic techniques, a molecular-level insight is obt...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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IL-12-releasing nanoparticles for ovarian cancer immunotherapy.

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IL-12-releasing nanoparticles for effective immunotherapy of metastatic ovarian cancer - Nature Materials
Polymer-coated liposomes specifically target and deliver interleukin-12 to metastatic ovarian cancer, strongly sensitizing the tumours to combination therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Ultrasound mechanogenetics for CAR T therapy.

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Tumour priming by ultrasound mechanogenetics for CAR T therapy - Nature Materials
A focused-ultrasound-mediated mechanogenetics approach enables the genetic modification of cancer cells near solid tumours to activate chimeric antigen receptor T cell response and achieve tumour supp...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Polar antiferromagnetic metallicity in a double-layered perovskite.

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Geometry-driven polar antiferromagnetic metallicity in a double-layered perovskite cobaltate - Nature Materials
Cobalt ions in different sublayers of the double-layered Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite Sr3Co2O7 are found to develop inequivalent ionic displacements, geometrically generating a polar state while prese...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Multimodal sensing through memristive switching.

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Unisensory processing of interleaving memristive nanowires enabling multimodal sensing at human-scale resolution - Nature Materials
A fast and scalable sensor using a core–shell nanowire network is reported to capture multimodal information through memristive switching.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Synthesis of highly paired dual-atom catalysts.

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Ligand-restricted synthesis of highly paired dual-atom catalysts - Nature Materials
A ligand-restricted strategy is developed to realize the synthesis of dual-atom catalysts with high pairing ratio and tunable atomic distances.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Our November 2025 issue is online!
Featuring a Focus on PEG alternatives for RNA therapeutics and pieces on halide electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries, reprogrammable morphogenesis in free-standing 3D structures and more. Read it below.👇

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November 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Stable and efficient wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells.

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Intermediate phase evolution for stable and oriented evaporated wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells - Nature Materials
Stability issues hinder the commercialization of perovskite solar cells. An evaporated, highly oriented wide-bandgap perovskite film is reported, enabled through an intermediate phase evolution, resul...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Interleaved bond frustration in antiferromagnets.

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Interleaved bond frustration in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet - Nature Materials
The coexistence of frustrated magnetism and bond order is demonstrated in a family of antiferromagnets. Layers of dual frustrated orders are interleaved in the same crystal lattice, which presents an ...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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High-throughput screening of zeolite intergrowths

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Drawing boundaries between feasible and unfeasible zeolite intergrowths using high-throughput computational screening with synthesis validation - Nature Materials
Determining the feasibility of intergrowths between zeolites is investigated using high-throughput atomistic simulations and experimental verification. Interfacial energy is an effective descriptor fo...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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High-performance graphene-based carbon fibres.

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High-performance graphene-based carbon fibres prepared at room temperature via domain folding - Nature Materials
A domain-folding strategy is developed to assemble graphene into carbon fibres at room temperature, achieving ultrahigh strength and stiffness as well as greatly reducing energy consumption.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM