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A cost-effective all-in-one halide material for all-solid-state batteries
A cost-effective all-in-one halide cathode material with high energy density and exceptional cycling stability can be used to achieve energy-dense, durable cathodes for the next generation of all-solid-state batteries.
- Jiamin Fu
- , Changhong Wang
- & Xueliang Sun
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Efficient near-infrared harvesting in perovskite–organic tandem solar cells
A new asymmetric non-fullerene acceptor, P2EH-1V, is designed and synthesized for constructing devices demonstrating record-high efficiencies of 26.7% (certified at 26.4%) over an aperture area greater than 1 cm2 in perovskite–organic tandem solar cells.
- Zhenrong Jia
- , Xiao Guo
- & Yi Hou
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In-line NMR guided orthogonal transformation of real-life plastics
A product-oriented strategy that leverages the reactivities of different functional groups in real-life plastic mixtures can be used to obtain valuable products, opening a path for managing end-of-life plastic mixtures.
- Mei-Qi Zhang
- , Yida Zhou
- & Ding Ma
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Broadband transient full-Stokes luminescence spectroscopy
A high-sensitivity, broadband, transient, full-Stokes spectroscopy setup is demonstrated, which can detect quickly varying small signals from chiral emitters.
- Antti-Pekka M. Reponen
- , Marcel Mattes
- & Sascha Feldmann
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Light detectors made from perovskite crystals see in full colour
Most pixels in cameras detect only red, green or blue light. A sensor made from perovskite materials absorbs all three, improving image brightness and resolution.
- Shuming Nie
- & Viktor Gruev
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Machine-learning design of ductile FeNiCoAlTa alloys with high strength
A new group of multi-principal-element alloys, designed through machine learning and extreme microstructural heterogeneities, achieve high strength (1.8-GPa yield strength) and ductility (25% uniform elongation) at room temperature.
- Yasir Sohail
- , Chongle Zhang
- & En Ma
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Bioinspired capillary force-driven super-adhesive filter
Stable coating of filters with a thin liquid layer enhances adhesion of airborne particulates while maintaining high air permeability, resulting in longer lifetimes and higher efficiency of these filters.
- Junyong Park
- , Chan Sik Moon
- & Sanghyuk Wooh
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Optical nonlinearities in excess of 500 through sublattice reconstruction
A strategy for engineering photon-avalanche nanoparticles is proposed such that they exhibit an unprecedentedly strong nonlinear optical response and their emissions scale by more than 500th power of the pump intensity.
- Jiaye Chen
- , Chang Liu
- & Xiaogang Liu
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Digitally constructed mask brings a damaged painting back to life
A damaged painting has been visually restored by digitally reconstructing missing areas of paint and printing them onto a removable mask.
- Hartmut Kutzke
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Computer processors built from 2D materials
These prototype processors made from atomically thin materials offer a glimpse into a post-silicon-transistor future, but scaling challenges remain.
- Michael Waltl
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A complementary two-dimensional material-based one instruction set computer
A two-dimensional one instruction set computer has been fabricated based on complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor technology by leveraging the heterogeneous integration of large-area n-type MoS2 and p-type WSe2 field-effect transistors.
- Subir Ghosh
- , Yikai Zheng
- & Saptarshi Das
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Probing phonon transport dynamics across an interface by electron microscopy
In situ vibrational electron energy-loss spectroscopy is used to examine phonon transport dynamics across the AlN–SiC interface during thermal transport at sub-nanometre resolution, demonstrating a sharp temperature drop within about 2 nm across the interface.
- Fachen Liu
- , Ruilin Mao
- & Peng Gao
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Weakly space-confined all-inorganic perovskites for light-emitting diodes
Weakly space-confined, large-grained crystals of all-inorganic perovskite were used to fabricate light-emitting diodes with a high external quantum efficiency and operational stability.
- Chenchen Peng
- , Haitao Yao
- & Zhengguo Xiao
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Brain implantation of soft bioelectronics via embryonic development
A soft mesh microelectrode array can seamlessly integrate in developing brains, enabling long-term, stable mapping of how single-neuron activity and population dynamics emerge and evolve during brain development.
- Hao Sheng
- , Ren Liu
- & Jia Liu
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Physical restoration of a painting with a digitally constructed mask
A digital restoration technique for damaged paintings was developed, in which a colour-accurate bilayer mask of printed pigments on polymeric films was used, reducing treatment time and cost while adhering to ethical conservation principles.
- Alex Kachkine
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Making slabs and sleepers from old appliances
Sebastián Gregui’s company uses research-backed methods to turn recovered plastic into building materials.
- Patricia Maia Noronha
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AI linked to boom in biomedical papers, infrared contact lenses, and is Earth’s core leaking?
We round up some recent stories from the Nature Briefing.
- Shamini Bundell
- , Nick Petrić Howe
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Light-triggered regionally controlled n-doping of organic semiconductors
A facile light-triggered doping strategy involving a series of inactive photoactivable dopants is described that facilitates tunable regionally controlled n-doping of organic semiconductors, resulting in stable patterning of the doping profile at record high resolutions.
- Xin-Yi Wang
- , Yi-Fan Ding
- & Jian Pei
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Unconventional solitonic high-temperature superfluorescence from perovskites
Exciton–lattice interactions suppress thermal noise through vibration isolation, enabling unconventional solitonic superfluorescence at unusually high temperatures in lead halide perovskites.
- Melike Biliroglu
- , Mustafa Türe
- & Kenan Gundogdu
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These contact lenses give people infrared vision — even with their eyes shut
Sci-fi-style technology uses nanoparticles to convert infrared light into visible light that humans can see.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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The structure of liquid carbon elucidated by in situ X-ray diffraction
A precise structure measurement of liquid carbon at pressures of around 1 million atmospheres obtained by in situ X-ray diffraction at an X-ray free-electron laser shows a complex fluid with transient bonding and approximately four nearest neighbours on average.
- D. Kraus
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Unconventional ___domain tessellations in moiré-of-moiré lattices
Examination of a complete structural phase diagram of twisted trilayer graphene shows that several large-scale moiré ___domain lattices can be formed, the physical properties of which can be tuned by the twist angles between layers.
- Daesung Park
- , Changwon Park
- & Hyobin Yoo
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Twist-programmable superconductivity in spin–orbit-coupled bilayer graphene
The superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene that emerges from the spin–orbit coupling induced by proximal tungsten diselenide can be tuned by modulating the twist angle between the two materials.
- Yiran Zhang
- , Gal Shavit
- & Stevan Nadj-Perge
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Intragrain 3D perovskite heterostructure for high-performance pure-red perovskite LEDs
To increase the efficiency, brightness and stability of next-generation light-emitting diodes (LEDs), the microstructure of CsPbI3-xBrx metal-halide perovskite, a good pure-red emitter, was altered to fix hole leakage, which was identified as decreasing efficiencies in overworked LEDs.
- Yong-Hui Song
- , Bo Li
- & Hong-Bin Yao
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Nickel production is notoriously dirty — here’s how to make it greener
If scaled up, a method for extracting nickel without using carbon-rich coke could reduce emissions considerably.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Structurally complex phase engineering enables hydrogen-tolerant Al alloys
A size-sieved complex precipitation in Sc-added Al–Mg alloys achieves a high-density dispersion of both fine Al3Sc nanoprecipitates and in situ formed core-shell Al3(Mg, Sc)2/Al3Sc nanophases with high hydrogen-trapping ability.
- Shengyu Jiang
- , Yuantao Xu
- & Jun Sun
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Sustainable nickel enabled by hydrogen-based reduction
A one-step process using fossil-free hydrogen-plasma-based reduction is used to extract nickel from low-grade ore and create high-grade ferronickel alloys, providing a more sustainable and environmentally friendly method for obtaining nickel.
- U. Manzoor
- , L. Mujica Roncery
- & I. R. Souza Filho
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An origami design for metamaterial robots
Bendy, twisty and collapsable origami towers could make temperature controlling panels, or, dancing robots.
- Dan Fox
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Shapeshifting origami material shrinks when twisted
An origami-inspired ‘metamaterial’ has been engineered to have properties not found in natural materials — enabling it to undergo large, reversible deformations.
- Philip Klocke
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Superconducting gap of H3S measured by tunnelling spectroscopy
Characterizing the superconducting gap structure in the high-temperature superconductor H3S by means of tunnelling spectroscopy reveals that it, as well as D3S, has a fully gapped structure, confirming the phonon-mediated mechanism of superconducting pairing.
- Feng Du
- , Alexander P. Drozdov
- & Mikhail I. Eremets
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Atomic lift-off of epitaxial membranes for cooling-free infrared detection
Atomic precision lift-off of ultrathin membranes without artificial release layers can be achieved to facilitate the high-throughput production of scalable, ultrathin, single-crystalline, freestanding perovskite systems.
- Xinyuan Zhang
- , Owen Ericksen
- & Jeehwan Kim
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Quantum twisting microscopy of phonons in twisted bilayer graphene
Generalization of a quantum twisting microscope to cryogenic temperatures in twisted bilayer graphene shows the ability to map phononic dispersions through inelastic momentum-conserving tunnelling and reveals an angle-dependent coupling between electrons and phonons.
- J. Birkbeck
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Modular chiral origami metamaterials
A versatile origami-inspired modular chiral mechanical metamaterial structure facilitates dual-mode actuation, converting compression into rotational motion and torsion into extension or compression.
- Tuo Zhao
- , Xiangxin Dang
- & Glaucio H. Paulino
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Print, melt, repeat: 3D-printing formula yields sturdy objects time after time
Complex shapes made of a specially formulated resin are easily recycled into other, equally durable objects.
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Electric-field-induced ___domain walls in wurtzite ferroelectrics
Experimental and theoretical exploration of ___domain walls forming in wurtzite ferroelectrics following the application of electric fields demonstrates their reconfigurable conductivity as well as tunability, showing potential for use in ultrascaled devices.
- Ding Wang
- , Danhao Wang
- & Zetian Mi
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Observation of the axion quasiparticle in 2D MnBi2Te4
The dynamical axion quasiparticle, which is directly analogous to the hypothetical fundamental axion particle, is observed in two-dimensional MnBi2Te4, and has implications for quantum chromodynamics, cosmology and string theory.
- Jian-Xiang Qiu
- , Barun Ghosh
- & Su-Yang Xu
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Subnanosecond flash memory enabled by 2D-enhanced hot-carrier injection
A two-dimensional Dirac graphene-channel flash memory based on a two-dimensional-enhanced hot-carrier-injection mechanism that supports both electron and hole injection is used to make devices with a subnanosecond program speed.
- Yutong Xiang
- , Chong Wang
- & Peng Zhou
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Negative thermal expansion and oxygen-redox electrochemistry
Using operando electrochemical processes, we found a way to restore oxygen-redox active materials exhibiting structural and voltage decay to their pristine state, providing a framework for the design of functional materials with zero thermal expansion.
- Bao Qiu
- , Yuhuan Zhou
- & Ying Shirley Meng
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Docking stations in porous crystals unlock elusive molecular structures
Porous crystals have been engineered to trap ‘oily’ molecules — enabling X-ray structures to be determined for these compounds that defy standard crystallographic analysis.
- Hongyi Xu
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Giant electrocaloric effect in high-polar-entropy perovskite oxides
Targeted multielement substitution of a lead-free relaxor ferroelectric perovskite distorts the lattice structure and induces strong polar disorder, leading to high-polar-entropy ferroelectric oxides with a high electrocaloric effect and long lifetime.
- Feihong Du
- , Tiannan Yang
- & Xiaoshi Qian
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A Nd@C82–polymer interface for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells
An endohedral metallofullerene–polymer layer, which features ultrafast electron extraction and in situ encapsulation, improves the efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells.
- Yuexin Lin
- , Zhichao Lin
- & Chao Liang
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Solar cells made of Moon dust could power up a lunar base
Lunar soil processed to form ‘moonglass’ allows the creation of efficient, radiation-resistant solar panels.
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Millimetre-scale bioresorbable optoelectronic systems for electrotherapy
A millimetre-scale bioresorbable optoelectronic system with an onboard power supply and a wireless, optical control mechanism is developed for general applications in electrotherapy and specific uses in temporary cardiac pacing.
- Yamin Zhang
- , Eric Rytkin
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A RISC-V 32-bit microprocessor based on two-dimensional semiconductors
A RISC-V microprocessor capable of executing standard 32-bit instructions has been designed with 5,900 MoS2 transistors and a complete standard cell library based on 2D semiconductor technology.
- Mingrui Ao
- , Xiucheng Zhou
- & Peng Zhou
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Synaptic and neural behaviours in a standard silicon transistor
A standard commercial CMOS FET can exhibit synaptic-like long-term potentiation and depression or neuron-like leaky-integrate-and-fire and adaptive frequency-bursting behaviour when biased in a specific but unconventional way.
- Sebastian Pazos
- , Kaichen Zhu
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Bulk superconductivity near 40 K in hole-doped SmNiO2 at ambient pressure
Superconductivity at temperatures approaching 40 K for a hole-doped nickel oxide that is isostructural with cuprate superconductors demonstrates the existence of a broader family of materials and potential for achieving higher-temperature superconductivity.
- S. Lin Er Chow
- , Zhaoyang Luo
- & A. Ariando
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World’s tiniest LED display has pixels smaller than a virus
See images of another tiny display with pixels the size of a human hair.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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Downscaling micro- and nano-perovskite LEDs
A process based on perovskite semiconductors is described to downscale micro-LEDs and nano-LEDs to below the conventional size limits, demonstrating average external quantum efficiencies maintained at around 20% across a wide range of pixel lengths.
- Yaxiao Lian
- , Yaxin Wang
- & Dawei Di
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Electroluminescence and energy transfer mediated by hyperbolic polaritons
Far-field mid-infrared spectroscopy reveals both the electroluminescence of hyperbolic phonon polaritons of hexagonal boron nitride excited by strongly biased graphene, and the associated radiative energy transfer through the material.
- Loubnan Abou-Hamdan
- , Aurélien Schmitt
- & Emmanuel Baudin
A cation-exchange approach to tunable magnetic intercalation superlattices