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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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All-electrical perpendicular switching of chiral antiferromagnetic order
Nature Materials, Published online: 29 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02228-4
By introducing an unconventional spin–orbit torque, the authors demonstrate an all-electrical way to bidirectionally switch the perpendicular chiral antiferromagnetic order in Mn3Sn, promoting the application of antiferromagnetic spintronics.
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Ab initio structure solutions from nanocrystalline powder diffraction data via diffusion models
Nature Materials, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02220-y
A machine learning model that can solve nanocrystalline structures from highly degraded PXRD patterns is presented. It is shown to be successful on simulated crystals as small as 10 Å, and is robust to noisy patterns from real-world experiments.
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Warm metalworking for plastic manufacturing in brittle semiconductors
Nature Materials, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02223-9
The authors show that bulk brittle semiconductors can be plastically manufactured like metals by warm metalworking into free-standing, metre-scale films with decent physical properties.
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A neuromorphic mechanosensory skin
Nature Materials, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02230-w
A bioinspired mechanosensory skin integrating different neuromorphic processing modes enables robots to achieve highly efficient tactile texture discrimination.
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High-colour-purity and efficient organic light-emitting transistors
Nature Materials, Published online: 28 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02221-x
Laterally integrated organic light-emitting transistors with intrinsic optical microcavities provide a general platform for organic electroluminescence with simultaneous high colour purity and efficiency.