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Nature Materials
Nature Materials is a multidisciplinary journal aimed at bringing together cutting-edge research across the entire spectrum of materials science and technology. Nature Materials covers all applied and fundamental aspects of the synthesis/processing, structure/composition, properties and performance of materials. Nature Materials provides a forum for the development of a common identity among materials scientists while encouraging researchers to cross established subdisciplinary lines. To achieve this, Nature Materials takes an interdisciplinary, integrated and balanced approach to all areas of materials research while fostering the exchange of ideas between scientists involved in different communities.
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Imaging multi-particle dynamics in space and time
Nature Materials, Published online: 06 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41563-026-02785-2
The simultaneous presence of multiple (quasi)particles is a challenge for ultrafast imaging. Measurement at a few intensities disentangles the single- and multi-particle spatiotemporal dynamics.
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Nanoparticles as carrier and drug
Nature Materials, Published online: 06 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41563-026-02774-5
A lipid nanoparticle formulation degrades an immunosuppressive receptor on tumour-associated macrophages through its lipids alone, while its messenger RNA cargo reprograms these cells in situ into anti-tumour chimeric antigen receptor macrophages, reshaping the immune microenvironment of malignant ascites in gastrointestinal cancer.
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In situ CAR engineering and nanoparticle-mediated TREM2 degradation for macrophage reprogramming in malignant ascites
Nature Materials, Published online: 06 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41563-026-02769-2
Targeted lipid nanoparticles reprogram TREM2+-tumour-associated macrophages in ascitic fluid into chimeric antigen receptor macrophage cells, providing an in situ cell engineering strategy that alters the tumour microenvironment and promotes tumour cell elimination in rodent models.
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Spatiotemporal intensity-cycling microscopy unveils many-body interactions and correlated transport in van der Waals semiconductors
Nature Materials, Published online: 06 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41563-026-02800-6
Intensity-cycling spatiotemporal microscopy separates single-particle and multi-particle transport, enabling imaging of charge mobility, exciton interactions, and correlated many-body states in van der Waals semiconductors, including Mott transitions.
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Mechanical adaptation drives out-of-equilibrium network reorganization and self-strengthening in adapt-ring networks
Nature Materials, Published online: 05 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41563-026-02795-0
Adapt-ring networks consisting of dense, reconfigurable α-cyclodextrin crystalline domains and sparsely crosslinked polyethylene glycol form adaptive polymer materials that remodel and strengthen in response to mechanical stress.