Pub Date : 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00861-8
Nicole E. Gregorio, Cyrus M. Haas, Neil P. King, Cole A. DeForest
{"title":"Engineering complexity into protein-based biomaterials for biomedical applications","authors":"Nicole E. Gregorio, Cyrus M. Haas, Neil P. King, Cole A. DeForest","doi":"10.1038/s41578-025-00861-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-025-00861-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"189 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":83.5,"publicationDate":"2025-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145560397","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 : 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00862-7
Asya Ilgün, Thomas Schmickl
The project Hiveopolis reimagines beehives as biohybrid superorganisms by introducing living fungal materials and digital technologies into one living architecture — a buzzing honeybee colony. It pioneers a transdisciplinary approach to multispecies resilience and sustainable co-habitation by adapting shape and function, utilizing bio-inspired algorithms to negotiate material costs, time, energy and structural performance.
{"title":"Reimagining the beehive as a biohybrid superorganism","authors":"Asya Ilgün, Thomas Schmickl","doi":"10.1038/s41578-025-00862-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-025-00862-7","url":null,"abstract":"The project Hiveopolis reimagines beehives as biohybrid superorganisms by introducing living fungal materials and digital technologies into one living architecture — a buzzing honeybee colony. It pioneers a transdisciplinary approach to multispecies resilience and sustainable co-habitation by adapting shape and function, utilizing bio-inspired algorithms to negotiate material costs, time, energy and structural performance.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 12","pages":"880-882"},"PeriodicalIF":86.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145545542","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 : 2025-11-05DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00859-2
Takashi Hisatomi, Taro Yamada, Hiroshi Nishiyama, Tsuyoshi Takata, Kazunari Domen
{"title":"Author Correction: Materials and systems for large-scale photocatalytic water splitting","authors":"Takashi Hisatomi, Taro Yamada, Hiroshi Nishiyama, Tsuyoshi Takata, Kazunari Domen","doi":"10.1038/s41578-025-00859-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-025-00859-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 12","pages":"964-964"},"PeriodicalIF":86.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-025-00859-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145440929","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 : 2025-10-31DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00858-3
Sreenivas Raguraman, Adam Griebel, Maitreyee Sharma Priyadarshini, Paulette Clancy, Timothy P. Weihs
{"title":"Author Correction: A call to elevate the role of processing in AI-driven materials design","authors":"Sreenivas Raguraman, Adam Griebel, Maitreyee Sharma Priyadarshini, Paulette Clancy, Timothy P. Weihs","doi":"10.1038/s41578-025-00858-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-025-00858-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"11 2","pages":"181-181"},"PeriodicalIF":86.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-025-00858-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145411912","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 : 2025-10-27DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00847-6
Randi Azmi, Drajad Satrio Utomo, Yanping Liu, Shynggys Zhumagali, Stefaan De Wolf
Commercial solar cells require long-term operational stability. Despite their high performance, perovskite solar cells degrade owing to defects, impurities and mobile ions in the bulk and at the surface of their photo-absorbing 3D metal-halide perovskite films. Compared with 3D perovskites, low-dimensional (LD) perovskites exhibit greater phase stability and superior ambient, light and thermal stability. Notably, by forming 3D/LD heterostructures, these LD layers can also passivate defective 3D perovskite surfaces through surface reconstruction. However, this approach can increase energy mismatch and structural disorder at the contact interfaces owing to excess unbonded ligands. The LD perovskite capping layers can also feature mixed phases, random orientations and other inhomogeneities, which can create charge recombination channels, jeopardize charge transport and undermine long-term stability. Moreover, the monovalent ammonium-based ligands (phenethylammonium and butylammonium) commonly used to create 3D/LD heterojunctions are relatively unstable owing to weak van der Waals interactions btween the organic sheets and the inorganic framework, as well as their relatively low acid dissociation constant (pKa), which make them prone to deprotonation. To improve stability, it is thus imperative to use suitable organic ligands that form strong coordination bonds with the inorganic framework — ideally multivalent amines with high pKa values. Here, we review instability mechanisms at 3D/LD interfaces and discuss mitigation strategies, focusing on ligand chemistry and the fabrication of phase-pure, homogeneous LD capping layers to improve 3D/LD perovskite heterostructure stability. The implementation of low-dimensional perovskite capping layers is a promising strategy for enhancing the performance of perovskite solar cells; however, their thermal stability and reproducibility remain inadequately understood. This Review examines these underlying challenges, emphasizing ligand design and fabrication techniques to achieve high-quality, high-purity capping layers.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00848-5
Sohini Bhattacharyya, Soumyabrata Roy, Xiaodong Lin, Nicolo Campagnol, Alexandru Vlad, Pulickel M. Ajayan
Graphite is the backbone of the lithium-ion battery industry owing to its indispensability as the primary anode material, making it a critical mineral in the global shift to clean energy. Natural graphite supply remains geographically concentrated with sluggish mining scalability, leading to an escalation in supply-chain vulnerabilities. Consequently, synthetic graphite, preferred for its purity and performance, is gaining traction, although its production remains energy intensive and reliant on fossil fuel derivatives, undercutting sustainability goals. The future of graphite hinges on two game-changing developments: green synthesis from renewable carbon sources and efficient recycling of spent anodes. Although emerging synthesis methods such as biomass-derived precursors, plasma processing and microwave-assisted graphitization show promise, their industrial scalability remains a challenge. At the same time, advanced recycling technologies could transform spent graphite into a viable secondary source, reducing dependence on virgin materials. As the demand for this critical mineral surges, innovation in production and recycling will be key to balancing performance, cost and environmental impact. Additionally, support in the form of policies, market incentives and economic frameworks is crucial to fostering an ecosystem for sustainable graphite sourcing, green manufacturing and circular value chains. Graphite is a vital component of lithium-ion batteries, but it is challenged by supply-chain vulnerabilities and sustainability issues. This Perspective explores innovative synthesis and recycling methods, emphasizing the need for supportive policy frameworks to enable an economically viable and environmentally responsible graphite economy.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00854-7
Ariane Vartanian
An article in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces reports a 3D-printed, metal–organic framework-coated respiratory filter that both allows airflow and catalytically destroys chemical warfare agents.
{"title":"Breathable filters that neutralize nerve agents","authors":"Ariane Vartanian","doi":"10.1038/s41578-025-00854-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-025-00854-7","url":null,"abstract":"An article in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces reports a 3D-printed, metal–organic framework-coated respiratory filter that both allows airflow and catalytically destroys chemical warfare agents.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 11","pages":"804-804"},"PeriodicalIF":86.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145381869","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 : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00856-5
Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Nature Communications presents an irregular growth strategy that generates disordered architected materials with excellent static mechanical cloaking and camouflage capabilities.
Pub Date : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00851-w
Reid Lifset, Ariane Vartanian
Extended producer responsibility is a policy approach that makes companies accountable for their products’ end of life. Nature Reviews Materials speaks with industrial ecologist Reid Lifset about how extended producer responsibility schemes work in practice, and whether they truly incentivize sustainable materials design, as intended.
{"title":"How extended producer responsibility policy shapes industry behaviour and materials design","authors":"Reid Lifset, Ariane Vartanian","doi":"10.1038/s41578-025-00851-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-025-00851-w","url":null,"abstract":"Extended producer responsibility is a policy approach that makes companies accountable for their products’ end of life. Nature Reviews Materials speaks with industrial ecologist Reid Lifset about how extended producer responsibility schemes work in practice, and whether they truly incentivize sustainable materials design, as intended.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 11","pages":"801-802"},"PeriodicalIF":86.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145381873","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 : 2025-10-21DOI: 10.1038/s41578-025-00853-8
Charlotte Allard
An article in Nature Communications reports a versatile platform for creating slippery surfaces with precise control over their structural topologies.
《自然通讯》上的一篇文章报道了一个多功能平台，可以通过精确控制其结构拓扑来创建光滑的表面。
{"title":"Slippery surfaces with complex geometries","authors":"Charlotte Allard","doi":"10.1038/s41578-025-00853-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41578-025-00853-8","url":null,"abstract":"An article in Nature Communications reports a versatile platform for creating slippery surfaces with precise control over their structural topologies.","PeriodicalId":19081,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Materials","volume":"10 11","pages":"803-803"},"PeriodicalIF":86.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145382426","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}
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