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Contributions of vehicular and structural proton transport are quantified in phosphoric acid electrolytes, with linking structural diffusion to hydrogen bonds. The derived conductivity model guides electrolyte-conductivity trends and identifies 5.8 M for low-temperature batteries.
The authors identify two coexisting incommensurate charge density waves whose interplay leads to joint commensuration and a long-period moiré structure.
Resistance drift, also known as the temporal change in electrical resistance, hampers the application of phase-change materials for neuromorphic computing. Here an amorphous CrTe3 thin film with no resistance drift in the working temperature from −200 °C to 165 °C is reported.
Homojunction intermolecular charge separation is reported in photoexcited anion–cation pairs induced by external electric field bias, opening possibilities for light harvesting using molecular semiconductors.
The authors develop a molecular dopant to avoid the dimerization of the electron-selective material phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester, resulting in enhanced stability and efficiency in inverted perovskite solar cells.
Spherical polar topological structures are of interest as they could enable high-density memory applications; however, such texture formation requires superlattices with delicately balanced boundary conditions to form. Here it is found that these textures can form in free-standing CuInP2S6, and that mechanical force can generate high-density domains.
Advances have been made in thin-film piezoelectrics; however, the linearity of electric-field-induced strain with frequency and temperature still requires improvement. Here, by growing interlocked monoclinic and tetragonal polar nanoregions in (K,Na)NbO3 thin films, highly linear strains of up to 1.1% are reported at frequencies up to 105 Hz.
To address the phase instability issue of perovskites, ammonium propionic acid is introduced to enhance the phase stability of both perovskite layers in perovskite/perovskite/silicon triple-junction solar cells, resulting in improved efficiency and reproducibility.
This work presents SCIGEN, a machine learning framework integrating geometric constraints into material generation. The framework enables the discovery of stable quantum material candidates, and the authors synthesize two predicted magnetic materials.
The authors demonstrate deeply subwavelength light confinement in the terahertz spectral range by exploiting the strong light–matter coupling and hyperbolicity of phonon polaritons in hafnium-based dichalcogenides.
Insights to elucidate the composition–behaviour relationship in organic photovoltaic materials are required. Here the phase behaviour of disordered polymer:small-molecule acceptor blends is studied and an extended model is invoked to understand the temperature–composition diagrams.
Two-dimensional polyamide/lithiated Nafion interphase layers assembled into ultrathin sheets show high-rate, high-capacity Li plating/stripping as well as high energy and power densities, enabling the fabrication of high-performance anode-free Li metal batteries.
Using visible-light-induced crosslinking, a local stiffening approach is developed for ex vivo mouse and human lung tissue as an early lung injury model, directing epithelial cell mechanosensing, differentiation and nascent protein deposition.
Tissue-specific mRNA or gene editing machinery delivery is achieved with lipid nanoparticles containing peptides with specific sequences, which tune the protein corona of the particles by mechanical optimization of peptide–protein binding affinities.
Peptide ionizable lipids containing specific amino acids and functional groups render lipid nanoparticles with the tissue-specific delivery of mRNA and prime editing systems, which can be useful for advanced mRNA-based therapeutics.
Through the sonochemical exfoliation of grown black phosphorus crystals, high-quality, narrow and clean black phosphorus nanoribbons with smooth edges and defined edge chirality are achieved, enabling the realization of high-performance transistors and photodetectors.
Quantum oscillations are reported in Coulomb-coupled electron–hole double layers that originate from recurring transitions between competing excitonic insulator and layer-decoupled quantum Hall states.
