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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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Stiff yet stretchy dissipative metamaterials
Nature Materials, Published online: 21 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02247-1
Hydrogels inspire a class of double-network mechanical metamaterials with an unprecedented combination of stiffness, stretchability and energy dissipation.
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Sub-unit-cell-segmented ferroelectricity in brownmillerite oxides by phonon decoupling
Nature Materials, Published online: 20 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02233-7
Scaling effects on ferroelectric domains could impact applications for next-generation miniaturized devices. Here brownmillerite oxides are shown to demonstrate ferroelectric domains with widths down to the sub-unit-cell level.
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Suppressing argyrodite oxidation by tuning the host structure for high-areal-capacity all-solid-state lithium–sulfur batteries
Nature Materials, Published online: 20 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02238-2
By utilizing a nitrogen-rich carbon host with good conductivity to kinetically limit Li-ion extraction and shift the potential for sulfide conversion to sulfur, argyrodite decomposition in solid-state lithium–sulfur batteries is largely suppressed. Li–S cells delivering an areal capacity of 11.3 mAh cm−2, with 90% retention over 200 cycles at lower areal capacity, are demonstrated.
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Unidirectional magnetoresistance goes perpendicular
Nature Materials, Published online: 20 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02236-4
The demonstration of unconventional unidirectional magnetoresistance in WTe2/Cr2Ge2Te6 bilayers reveals a pathway for electrical readout of perpendicular magnetic states, advancing prospects for two-terminal spintronic memory devices.
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Vortices and antivortices in antiferroelectric PbZrO<sub>3</sub>
Nature Materials, Published online: 20 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41563-025-02245-3
Topological phenomena in ferroelectrics such as vortices are of interest as they may be useful for high-density storage applications, but similar phenomena have not been seen in antiferroelectrics, which possess antipolar dipole arrangements. Here, using electron microscopy, topological antivortices and faint vortices are seen in the prototypical antiferroelectric PbZrO3.