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Interpretation of the binding energy shifts in the Mo 3d core-level XPS spectra of molybdenene 钼三维核能级XPS光谱中结合能位移的解释
IF 34.9 1区 材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-02061-5
Archit Dhingra
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Geometry-induced spin chirality in a non-chiral ferromagnet at zero field 零场下非手性铁磁体的几何诱导自旋手性
IF 34.9 1区 材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-02055-3
Mingran Xu, Axel J. M. Deenen, Huixin Guo, Pamela Morales-Fernández, Sebastian Wintz, Elina Zhakina, Markus Weigand, Claire Donnelly, Dirk Grundler
Spin chirality is a fundamental property that manifests non-reciprocal transport—magnetochiral anisotropy (MChA). However, the application of MChA in technology is constrained by the necessity for an external magnetic field, complex non-centrosymmetric crystal synthesis and cryogenic environments. Here we overcome these challenges by imprinting geometric chirality onto a nickel tube via three-dimensional nanoengineering. We use two-photon lithography to create a structurally twisted polymeric template with micrometre-sized pitch and diameters and cover it with a uniform 30-nm-thick nickel shell. The nickel tube exhibits spontaneous MChA—non-reciprocal transport at zero magnetic field and room temperature. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism microscopy confirms helical spin textures stabilized by the torsion- and curvature-engineered shape anisotropy, while inelastic light scattering spectroscopy demonstrates robust non-reciprocal magnon transport at remanence, reconfigurable via magnetic field history. The chiral parameter in our device surpasses that of natural chiral magnets such as Cu2OSeO3. Analytical theory and micromagnetic simulations demonstrate that the non-reciprocity is further enhanced by downscaling the feature sizes. Our results establish a scalable, geometry-driven nanotechnology that imprints spin chirality on non-chiral ferromagnets and may enable nanoscale integration of chirality-enhanced magnonics and spintronics for real-world use cases. Three-dimensional chiral magnetic tubes created via two-photon lithography and nickel film deposition exhibit chiral spin textures and non-reciprocal magnon transport.
自旋手性是表现非互易输运-手磁各向异性(MChA)的基本性质。然而,MChA在技术上的应用受到外部磁场、复杂的非中心对称晶体合成和低温环境的限制。在此,我们透过三维奈米工程,将几何手性印印在镍管上,以克服这些挑战。我们使用双光子光刻技术创建了一个结构扭曲的聚合物模板,具有微米大小的间距和直径,并覆盖了一个均匀的30纳米厚的镍壳。镍管在零磁场和室温条件下表现出自发的非互反输运。x射线磁性圆二色性显微镜证实了螺旋自旋结构被扭转和曲率工程形状各向异性稳定,而非弹性光散射光谱显示了剩余物的非互易磁振子输运,通过磁场历史可重构。该器件的手性参数优于天然手性磁体,如cu2osio_3。分析理论和微磁仿真表明,减小特征尺寸可以进一步增强非互易性。我们的研究结果建立了一种可扩展的、几何驱动的纳米技术,可以在非手性铁磁体上刻印自旋手性,并可能使手性增强的磁学和自旋电子学的纳米级集成应用于现实世界。
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Imprinting spin wave non-reciprocity onto 3D artificial chiral nanomagnets 三维人工手性纳米磁体上自旋波非互易的印迹
IF 34.9 1区 材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-02057-1
Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko, Cristina Bran
Geometrical chirality in three-dimensional nanostructures enables the control and reconfiguration of anisotropic spin wave propagation.
三维纳米结构中的几何手性使得各向异性自旋波传播的控制和重构成为可能。
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Author Correction: Magnetically tunable selectivity in methane oxidation enabled by Fe-embedded liquid metal catalysts 作者更正:含铁液态金属催化剂在甲烷氧化中的磁性可调选择性
IF 34.9 1区 材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-02100-1
Haoran Zhang, Yinhe Wang, Yu Zhang, Fan Wu, Rui Huang, Sicong Wang, Xiaokang Liu, Yihua Ran, Zhiwen Zhang, Jun Cai, Huang Zhou, Tao Yao, Jun Jiang, Zhi Liu, Yu Mao, Wenhui Zhong, Lin Hu, Lei Zheng, Yuen Wu
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Supramolecular driven crystallization controls polymer recycling 超分子驱动结晶控制聚合物回收
IF 34.9 1区 材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-11-24 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-02048-2
Fernando Vidal, Haritz Sardon
Polymer crystallinity offers a mild thermal barrier for spontaneous self-depolymerization back to monomer.
聚合物的结晶性为自发自解聚回单体提供了一个温和的热障。
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Interfacial electric fields for portable, electricity-free water disinfection 界面电场用于便携式、无电水消毒。
IF 34.9 1区 材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-02034-8
Practical application of portable, mechanical-energy-driven water disinfection technologies has, to date, been limited. Now, a portable, disinfection system is developed based on the generation of a nanoscale interfacial electric field through manual agitation. The system can achieve 99.9999% inactivation of Vibrio cholerae within 1 min and demonstrates broad-spectrum disinfection against various pathogens.
迄今为止,便携式、机械能驱动的水消毒技术的实际应用仍然有限。现在,一种便携式的消毒系统是基于通过手动搅拌产生纳米级界面电场而开发的。该系统可在1 min内灭活霍乱弧菌达99.9999%,对多种病原菌具有广谱消毒效果。
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Record high visibility of two-photon interference from distinct molecules on a chip 记录芯片上不同分子的双光子干涉的高可见度。
IF 34.9 1区 材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-02049-1
Costanza Toninelli
Two molecules coupled to independent waveguides emit indistinguishable photons and the number of accessible pairs is ready for scaling up.
耦合到独立波导上的两个分子发射出难以区分的光子,并且可访问的光子对的数量已经准备好扩大。
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Efficient CO2-to-methanol electrocatalysis in acidic media via microenvironment-tuned cobalt phthalocyanine 通过微环境调节的酞菁钴在酸性介质中进行高效的co2 -甲醇电催化
IF 34.9 1区 材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-02059-z
Yun Song, Charles B. Musgrave III, Jianjun Su, Libei Huang, Weihua Guo, Yong Liu, Geng Li, Yinger Xin, Qiang Zhang, Xing Feng, Can Liao, Shunjie Liu, Ryan Tsz Kin Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Mingming He, Kai Shen Choong, Zhenxing Feng, Ben Zhong Tang, William A. Goddard III, Ruquan Ye
Electrosynthesis of value-added chemicals in strong acids can mitigate carbon loss and the operational cost of CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR). However, molecular catalysis for CO2RR is typically conducted in neutral or alkaline environments. CO2RR in acidic media is challenged by the scarcity of catalyst candidates, competitive hydrogen evolution and slow product formation. Here we report a locally ionic yet simultaneously hydrophobic and aerophilic layered structure that modulates the microenvironment surrounding cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) molecular catalysts, enabling efficient, multielectron CO2RR in acidic media. Experiment and theoretical modelling reveal that the polarized electrostatic field arising from the cationic groups suppresses hydronium migration. Concurrently, the van der Waals forces between the reactant gas and alkyl groups improve local CO availability, combining to achieve a methanol partial current density of 132 mA cm−2 with 62% selectivity at a pH of ~1 and –1.37 VRHE for CoPc, exceeding previous reports on neutral or alkaline electrolytes. The improved CO coverage also enables the detection of *CHO and *CO intermediates from in situ spectroscopy. We validate our strategy on various molecules, which champion the efficient inhibition of hydrogen evolution and improved CO2RR partial current density in acidic media. CoPc-based layered structure with similar ionic, hydrophobic and aerophilic interfaces also yields comparable methanol productivity. Multielectron molecular CO2 reduction in acid is challenged by weak CO binding and competing hydrogen evolution. Here a methanol Faradaic efficiency of 62% is achieved in acid by tuning the microenvironment with cationic, hydrophobic and aerophilic layers.
在强酸中电合成增值化学品可以减少碳损失和二氧化碳还原反应(CO2RR)的运行成本。然而,CO2RR的分子催化通常在中性或碱性环境中进行。CO2RR在酸性介质中受到催化剂候选物稀缺、竞争性析氢和缓慢产物形成的挑战。在这里,我们报道了一种局部离子但同时疏水和亲气的层状结构,该结构调节了酞菁钴(CoPc)分子催化剂周围的微环境,使酸性介质中高效的多电子CO2RR成为可能。实验和理论模型表明,阳离子基产生的极化静电场抑制了水合氢离子的迁移。同时,反应物气体和烷基之间的范德华力提高了局部CO的可用性,使CoPc在pH为~1和-1.37 VRHE时的偏电流密度达到132 mA cm - 2,选择性为62%,超过了之前关于中性或碱性电解质的报道。改进的CO覆盖范围也使原位光谱检测*CHO和*CO中间体成为可能。我们在各种分子上验证了我们的策略,这些策略支持在酸性介质中有效抑制析氢和提高CO2RR偏电流密度。基于copc的层状结构具有相似的离子、疏水和亲气界面,也产生相当的甲醇生产率。酸中的多电子分子CO2还原受到弱CO结合和竞争性析氢的挑战。在这里,通过调整带有阳离子、疏水和亲氧层的微环境,在酸中实现了62%的甲醇法拉第效率。
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All-optical modulation with single photons using an electron avalanche 利用电子雪崩的单光子全光调制
IF 34.9 1区 材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-02056-2
Demid V. Sychev, Peigang Chen, Yuheng Chen, Morris Yang, Colton Fruhling, Alexei Lagutchev, Alexander V. Kildishev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vladimir M. Shalaev
The distinctive characteristics of light, such as high-speed and low-loss propagation, low crosstalk and low power consumption, along with the unique quantum properties of photons, make it most suitable for various applications in communications, high-resolution imaging, optical computing and quantum information technologies. One limiting factor, however, is the weak optical nonlinearity of conventional media, which poses challenges for controlling light at ultralow intensities. Here we demonstrate all-optical modulation of the refractive index enabled by the electron avalanche process in silicon using a control beam with single-photon light intensities. The observed process corresponds to an extremely high nonlinear refractive index of $${n}_{2}approx 1.3times {10}^{-2},{{rm{m}}}^{2},{{rm{W}}}^{-1}$$ , which is several orders of magnitude higher than those of the best-known nonlinear optical materials. Using single photons for light modulation opens the possibility of gigahertz-frequency—and potentially even faster—optical switching for on-chip photonic and quantum devices operating at room temperature. Electron avalanche multiplication can enable an all-optical modulator controlled by single photons.
光的高速低损耗传播、低串扰和低功耗等特性,以及光子独特的量子特性,使其最适合于通信、高分辨率成像、光学计算和量子信息技术等领域的各种应用。然而,一个限制因素是传统介质的弱光学非线性,这对控制超低强度的光提出了挑战。在这里,我们展示了利用单光子光强的控制光束在硅中的电子雪崩过程实现折射率的全光调制。观察到的过程对应于极高的非线性折射率$${n}_{2}approx 1.3times {10}^{-2},{{rm{m}}}^{2},{{rm{W}}}^{-1}$$,这比那些最著名的非线性光学材料高出几个数量级。使用单光子进行光调制,为在室温下工作的片上光子和量子设备开启了千兆赫频率(甚至可能更快)光开关的可能性。电子雪崩倍增可以实现单光子控制的全光调制器。
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Nanoengineered aqueous-hydrotrope hybrid liquid electrolyte solutions for efficient zinc batteries across a wide temperature range 纳米工程水-疏水混合液体电解质解决方案,适用于宽温度范围的高效锌电池
IF 34.9 1区 材料科学 Q1 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-02060-6
Xueying Zheng, Haotian Zhu, Zhongqiang Wang, Hua Yang, Ruhong Li, Wei Luo, Wang Hay Kan, Yiming Dai, Haikuo Zhang, Jinze Wang, Huilin Cui, Xiulin Fan, Chunyi Zhi, Yunhui Huang
Aqueous zinc metal batteries are ideal candidates for grid storage applications. However, their practical application is hindered by a narrow operating temperature range and a limited electrolyte electrochemical stability window, both of which can be attributed to the water activity. Here, to minimize water activity in the electrolyte solution, we introduce a nanoengineered approach in which the water molecules are confined within a hydrophilic–hydrophobic water solvation sheath. The hydrogen-bond interaction with the hydrophilic groups in the inner solvation layer effectively suppresses water decomposition, and the hydrophobic solvents in the outer solvation layer establish a repulsive effect against water molecules. As a proof of concept, a hydrophobic and non-polar hydrofluoroether cosolvent is introduced into a Zn-ion aqueous electrolyte solution and tested together with various fluorinated hydrotrope molecules to favour the compatibility of the cosolvent with water. By such a water confinement strategy, an average Zn plating/stripping reversibility of 99.92% is achieved for over 4,000 cycles at 2.0 mA cm−2 and 2.0 mAh cm−2 in a Zn||Cu coin cell configuration. When tested in a Zn||VOPO4·2H2O lab-scale cell configuration, the selected aqueous-hydrotrope hybrid electrolyte solution enables long-lasting and highly reversible battery performance across temperatures from −80 °C to +60 °C. Aqueous-hydrotrope hybrid liquid electrolyte solutions enable overcoming the electrochemical stability window and operational temperature limits of aqueous electrolyte solutions in secondary zinc-based batteries, also improving the battery performance.
含水锌金属电池是电网存储应用的理想选择。然而,它们的实际应用受到较窄的工作温度范围和有限的电解质电化学稳定窗口的阻碍,这两者都可以归因于水活性。在这里,为了最小化电解质溶液中的水活性,我们引入了一种纳米工程方法,其中水分子被限制在亲疏水的水溶剂化鞘中。氢键与内溶剂化层亲水性基团的相互作用有效抑制了水的分解,外溶剂化层的疏水溶剂对水分子建立了排斥作用。作为概念验证,将疏水和非极性氢氟醚共溶剂引入锌离子水溶液电解质中,并与各种含氟的水分子一起测试,以支持助溶剂与水的相容性。通过这种水约束策略,在锌||铜硬币电池结构中,在2.0 mA cm - 2和2.0 mAh cm - 2下,平均镀锌/剥离可逆性达到99.92%,超过4000次循环。当在Zn|| voo4·2H2O实验室规模的电池配置中进行测试时,所选的水-水混合电解质溶液在−80°C至+60°C的温度范围内具有持久和高度可逆的电池性能。水-疏水混合电解质溶液能够克服二次锌基电池中水溶液的电化学稳定窗口和工作温度限制,提高电池性能。
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