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Nature Materials journal covers a range of topics within materials science, from materials engineering and structural materials (metals, alloys, ceramics, composites) to organic and soft materials (glasses, colloids, liquid crystals, polymers).
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Nature Materials, Published online: 27 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01878-0
Publisher Correction: Unlocking Li superionic conductivity in face-centred cubic oxides via face-sharing configurations ..read more
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Nature Materials, Published online: 26 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01845-9
Lack of local phase patterning in liquid crystal elastomers has hindered their broad implementation. The authors report a laser-induced dynamic crosslinking approach with allyl sulfide groups to achieve reconfigurable high-resolution patterning of multiple liquid crystalline phases in a single film ..read more
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Nature Materials, Published online: 22 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01868-2
Author Correction: Local atomic stacking and symmetry in twisted graphene trilayers ..read more
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Nature Materials, Published online: 21 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01848-6
Conventional iontronic pressure sensors suffer from signal drift and inaccuracy owing to creep of soft materials and ion leakage. Here the authors report a leakage-free and creep-free polyelectrolyte-elastomer-based iontronic sensor that achieves a drift rate two to three orders of magnitude lower than those of conventional iontronic sensors ..read more
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Nature Materials, Published online: 21 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01831-1
Electrocaloric effects are large in a limited set of materials that display hysteretic first-order phase transitions. Here epitaxial SrTiO3 thin films are strain engineered to achieve anhysteretic second-order phase transitions, with electrocaloric effects enhanced by one order of magnitude over bulk ..read more
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Nature Materials, Published online: 21 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01842-y
Pre-intercalation with alkali-metal ions is attractive for accessing higher reversible capacity and improved rate performance in Li-ion batteries. Topochemical single-crystal transformations in a tunnel-structured positive electrode are used to clarify the effect of pre-intercalation in modifying the host lattice and altering diffusion pathways ..read more
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Nature Materials, Published online: 21 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01836-w
Electrocaloric effects have not hitherto been experimentally studied at a phase transition created by strain. It is now shown that the continuous transition created by epitaxial strain in strontium titanate films greatly enhances electrocaloric effects over a wide range of temperatures, including room temperature ..read more
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Nature Materials, Published online: 18 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01844-w
Single-crystal black phosphorus nanoribbons have been grown through chemical vapour transport, using black phosphorus nanoparticles as seeds. The nanoribbons orient exclusively along the zigzag direction and have good semiconductor properties that render them suitable for use as channel material in field-effect transistors ..read more
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Nature Materials, Published online: 15 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01838-8
The authors report the inverse effect of chiral-induced spin selectivity in an organic material ..read more
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Nature Materials, Published online: 15 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01840-0
Strong bulk van der Waals materials are fabricated by the compressive moulding of two-dimensional nanosheets near room temperature through water-mediated densification, providing an energy-efficient way for synthesizing various van der Waals materials and a potential for tailoring compositions ..read more