Nature Materials, Published online: 01 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01889-xThe emergence of chiral morphologies from achiral building blocks is not well understood. Deep learning-based interpretation provides representative models for the process of symmetry breaking and chiral development during the growth of gold nanoparticles.

Nature Materials, Published online: 30 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01880-6The thermalization of acoustic phonons after photoexcitation is traced by electron pulses in TiSe2, and the excitonic contribution to the structural order parameter of the material’s charge density wave phase is quantified.

Nature Materials, Published online: 29 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01876-2Iodide-related defects pose serious challenges to the irradiation, thermal, light or reverse-bias stabilities of perovskite solar cells. Here, the authors find that by using the iodide/polyiodide capture and confine effects of perfluorodecyl iodide interfacing with perovskites,...