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Five different crystallization pathways of high-density ice at room temperature reveal a metastable ice phase with a body-centred tetragonal structure, termed ice XXI.
The small-bandgap semiconductors LnCd3P3 (Ln = La, Ce, Pr and Nd) are promising materials to study emergent phenomena from geometric frustration across bond, spin and charge degrees of freedom.
A thin coherent interlayer on polycrystalline perovskites prompts the formation of uniform, orderly fullerene films with high coverage while suppressing dimerization enabling efficient and stable perovskite photovoltaics.
Weaving-inspired topological design merges conventional polyurethane and epoxy polymers into a single, entangled network with enhanced mechanical performance and tunable properties that surpass traditional blending or supramolecular strategies.
Borrowing an idea from granular physics, researchers design and engineer soft composite materials with non-reciprocal static and dynamical mechanical behaviours, which could power the next generation of soft robots.
A technique combining laser fragmentation in liquids with the reduction of multiple metal salt precursors is developed to synthesize alloy nanoparticles, simultaneously achieving ultrasmall size and high compositional complexity for efficient and stable electrocatalysis.
Adding an ammonium propionic acid stabilizes the phases of both the middle and top perovskite layers, which further enables efficient and stable perovskite/perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells.
A designed electron transport layer paired with an embrittled aluminium cathode sustains efficient electron injection under strain, resulting in largely enhanced light-emitting performance.
