Pub Date : 2026-01-12DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00888-x
Ariane Vartanian
An article in Nature Communications reports a synthesis that can grow out-of-plane conductive 2D covalent organic framework films directly on substrates, thanks to an induced Marangoni effect.
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{"title":"Materials science, 10 years on","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41578-025-00881-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-025-00881-4","url":null,"abstract":"As Nature Reviews Materials turns 10, we look back on a decade of achievements and explore how the landscape of materials science has transformed.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-1"},"PeriodicalIF":86.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-025-00881-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145931218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-07DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00878-z
Leilei Dai, Kevin M. Van Geem, Huiyan Zhang, Rui Xiao, Hanwu Lei, Roger Ruan
{"title":"Designing zeolite catalysts for chemical recycling of plastics","authors":"Leilei Dai, Kevin M. Van Geem, Huiyan Zhang, Rui Xiao, Hanwu Lei, Roger Ruan","doi":"10.1038/s41578-025-00878-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-025-00878-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"382 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":83.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145937549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-05DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00875-2
Hyun Sik Moon, Shaffiq A. Jaffer, Rui Kai Miao, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton
{"title":"Scaling electrocatalysts for reduction of CO2 or CO to multicarbon products","authors":"Hyun Sik Moon, Shaffiq A. Jaffer, Rui Kai Miao, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton","doi":"10.1038/s41578-025-00875-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-025-00875-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":83.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145903474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-22DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00884-1
Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Journal of the American Chemical Society demonstrates that engineered disorder enables ultrafast magnetization control in structural highentropy FePt nanoparticles.
{"title":"Structural disorder enables fast magnetization dynamics in nanoparticles","authors":"Giulia Pacchioni","doi":"10.1038/s41578-025-00884-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-025-00884-1","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Journal of the American Chemical Society demonstrates that engineered disorder enables ultrafast magnetization control in structural highentropy FePt nanoparticles.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"11 1","pages":"9-9"},"PeriodicalIF":86.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145931214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-22DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00883-2
Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Science Advances demonstrates a high-entropy design strategy that stabilizes multiphase polar nanoregions in perovskite oxides, making them low-frequency microwave absorbers.
{"title":"High-entropy perovskite oxides for next-generation communications","authors":"Giulia Pacchioni","doi":"10.1038/s41578-025-00883-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-025-00883-2","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Science Advances demonstrates a high-entropy design strategy that stabilizes multiphase polar nanoregions in perovskite oxides, making them low-frequency microwave absorbers.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"11 1","pages":"8-8"},"PeriodicalIF":86.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145931219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00882-3
Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Advanced Materials introduces an efficient metabolic detection platform based on mesoporous high-entropy oxides that improves MALDI–MS sensitivity to small-molecule metabolites.
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00860-9
Simon Yves, Michel Fruchart, Romain Fleury, Gal Shmuel, Vincenzo Vitelli, Michael R. Haberman, Andrea Alù
Phonons are quasiparticles associated with mechanical vibrations in materials. They are at the root of the propagation of sound and elastic waves, as well as of thermal phenomena, which are pervasive in our everyday life and in many technologies. The fundamental understanding and control of phonon responses in natural and artificial media are key in the context of communications, isolation, energy harvesting and control, sensing and imaging. It has recently been realized that controlling different symmetry classes at the microscopic and mesoscopic scales in synthetic media offers a powerful tool to precisely tailor phononic responses for advanced acoustic and elastodynamic wave control. In this Review, we survey the recent progress in the design and synthesis of artificial phononic media, namely phononic crystals and metamaterials, guided by symmetry principles. Starting from tailored broken spatial symmetries, we discuss their interplay with time symmetries for non-reciprocal and non-conservative phenomena. We also address broader concepts that combine multiple symmetry classes to induce exotic phononic wave transport. We conclude with an outlook on future research directions based on symmetry engineering for the advanced control of phononic waves. Broken and tailored symmetries have a fundamental role in wave phenomena and their applications. This Review surveys the recent progress in the domain of artificial phononic media with an emphasis on the role of symmetry breaking, in both space and time, for advanced wave phenomena.
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