Nature Materials journal covers a range of topics within materials science, from materials engineering and structural materials (metals, alloys, ceramics, composites) to organic and soft materials (glasses, colloids, liquid crystals, polymers).
Nature Materials, Published online: 11 January 2021; doi:10.1038/s41563-020-00868-2Understanding the origin of unprecedented solar-to-hydrogen efficiencies in doped SrTiO3 has proved challenging. Linking in situ charge accumulation to electronic structure in this system now reveals design principles for hydrogen-evolving photocatalysts.
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Nature Materials, Published online: 11 January 2021; doi:10.1038/s41563-020-00877-1Structure–activity relationships built on descriptors of surfaces can help to design electrocatalysts, but their identification for electrochemically driven surface transformations is challenging. The composition of LaNiO3 thin film surfaces can now dictate surface transformation...
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Nature Materials, Published online: 11 January 2021; doi:10.1038/s41563-020-00889-xUse of polymer and small-molecule semiconductors with relatively poor miscibility helps the long-term stability of the morphology and photovoltaic performance of bulk heterojunction films used in organic solar cells.
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Nature Materials, Published online: 11 January 2021; doi:10.1038/s41563-020-00890-4Large reversible shear strain has been achieved by electric-field-driven bipolar switching in a hybrid ferroelectric, facilitating development of shape-memory-type actuators with outstanding figures of merit.
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Nature Materials, Published online: 11 January 2021; doi:10.1038/s41563-020-00879-zThe atomic process of grain boundary migration has been directly observed by scanning transmission electron microscopy, revealing transformations between different stable or metastable grain boundary structures.
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Nature Materials, Published online: 11 January 2021; doi:10.1038/s41563-020-00872-6Studies on the morphology stability of polymer donor–small-molecule acceptor blends relevant to solar cell stability reveal relationships between their intermolecular interactions and the thermodynamic, kinetic, thermal and mechanical properties.
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Nature Materials, Published online: 11 January 2021; doi:10.1038/s41563-020-00857-5A symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast is used to fabricate bacterial cellulose-based living materials that respond to external cues and adapt their structural and functional properties, with implications for sensing and catalytic applications.
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Nature Materials, Published online: 11 January 2021; doi:10.1038/s41563-020-00875-3Reversible strains are widely used in high-technology systems, with piezoelectrics showing fast response but low strain. Here, ferroelectric C6H5N(CH3)3CdCl3 is shown to produce a strain of 21.5%, two orders of magnitude larger than other piezoelectrics, due to organic...
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