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Membrane nanoreactors for mild and high-efficiency synthesis of β-blockers Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-20 Jiangwei Fu, Xiang Li, Guandi He, Jiayuan Jin, Shuai Pang, Yuhui Zhang, Xiao Jing, Daoling Peng, Xiqi Zhang, Lei Jiang
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High strength and ductility in a lightweight AlTiNbZrTa refractory high-entropy alloy enabled by nanophase precipitation and solute segregation Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-20 Muhammad Abubaker Khan, Jamieson Brechtl, Li Jingyuan, N. Radhika, Yong Zhang, Peter K. Liaw, Wei-Bing Liao, Mohamed A. Afifi
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Micropillar-enabled tough adhesion and enhanced sensing Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-20 Xi Xia, Xingxing Chen, Junli Shi, Zhibin Li, Bingfa Jiang, Kaixi Huang, Mengxue Guo, Zeyun Yang, Zelong Liao, Chaoyang Song, Chuan Fei Guo
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Biocatalytic nanomotor-assisted ultrafiltration membrane system for selective removal and transformation of phenolic contaminants Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-19 Shu Xu, Zimou Feng, Linyun Bao, Zhiyang Zhu, Shenyang Wu, Yi Yang, Xinglin Lu
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Regenerable triboelectric artificial hyperaccumulator for sustainable heavy- metals detection and remediation Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-19 Geng-Sheng Lin, Lan Gan, Ji Gao, Yong Ding, Zhong Lin Wang, Yongsheng Chen, Haiyang Zou, Zhaohui Tong
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Hybrid Cu(I)-based glassy cluster gel scintillator film by in situ UV photopolymerization Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-18 Bohan Li, Yongsheng Sun, Yuzhen Wang, Jiance Jin, Kai Han, Yan Xu, Zhiguo Xia
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Artificial kink defects enable high-efficiency degradation of nanocellulose via mechanochemical activation Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-17 YuanZhen Hou, Zi-Meng Han, YinBo Zhu, Jun Xia, JiaHao Li, Kun-Peng Yang, ZeZhou He, RongZhuang Song, Qing-Fang Guan, Yang Lu, Shu-Hong Yu, HengAn Wu
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Multi-bioinspired cellulose structural color adhesive patches as photonic skins Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-17 Minhui Lu, Hanxu Chen, Ning Li, Yuanjin Zhao
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Building RNA concentration fields Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-13 Dong Woo Kim, Moshe Rubanov, Alison Grinthal, Pepijn Moerman, Rebecca Schulman
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Accelerating CO2 direct air capture screening for metal-organic frameworks with a transferable machine learning force field Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-12 Yunsung Lim, Hyunsoo Park, Aron Walsh, Jihan Kim
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Controllable interlocking from irregularity in two-phase composites Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-10 Chelsea Fox, Kyrillos Bastawros, Tommaso Magrini, Chiara Daraio
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Water-evaporation-induced direct current electricity generation based on stretchable hydrogel/Al2O3 Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-10 Chaoran Liu, Zai Wang, Xin Tong, Zhenhua Wu, Lin Zhou, Haiyang Zou, Ayodeji Ogunjuyibe, Hongjian Lin, Dongfang Yan, Weihuang Yang, Linxi Dong, Gaofeng Wang, Zhong Lin Wang
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High-entropy alloys extra-stabilized by carbon dots as highly efficient catalysts for dehydrogenation/hydrogenation reactions Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Feifei Mei, Jun Yao, Chenyang Shen, Bingqing Ge, Mingyang Deng, Fengfeng Li, Xuefeng Guo, Weiping Ding
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MOF-based magnetically manipulated microwheel-robots for triglyceride degradation Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-09 Zixian Liang, Jiahao Zhang, Qinyi Cao, Wanyuan Li, Yuting Dai, Yining Zhao, Leyan Ou, Dapeng Lei, Kunfeng Liu, Zonghua Luo, Ze Xiong, Guihua Jiang, Yin Ning, Jizhuang Wang, Jinyao Tang, Dan Li
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Covalent organic framework-based photoelectric dual-modulated memristors for wafer surface quality evaluation Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-05 Jinyong Li, Bin Zhang, Bowen Zhou, Minghan Xiang, Yue Hu, Yang Gao, Fuzhen Xuan
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Precise multiphase hydrogel engineering of miniaturized 3D cancer architectures via computationally informed microfluidics Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Ramón Rial, Carlos F. Guimarães, Luca Gasperini, Alexandra Brito, Rui R. Costa, Juan M. Ruso, Rui L. Reis
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I’m busy: The search for peer reviewers Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Steve Cranford
Section snippets Main textPeer review is a little bit of a contentious topic lately, with the proliferation of journal titles being launched and submissions draining the community of time and effort … with little reward or recognition. What used to be somewhat of a gentleman’s agreement between author and journal has turned into the academic equivalent of arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. At the
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Interfacial electron-hole dynamics in solar materials revealed by 4D electron microscopy Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Lijie Wang, Omar F. Mohammed
Interfacial carrier dynamics are crucial for optoelectronic device performance; however, probing these dynamics at ultrafast and nanoscale levels presents significant challenges. Liao et al. tackled this by employing four-dimensional scanning ultrafast electron microscopy to directly visualize carrier transport across a Si/Ge heterojunction, offering a comprehensive insight into the interfacial dynamics
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Triplet exciton-mediated rare-earth-based molecular scintillators Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Louwen Zhang, Yibo Chen, Ling Li, Yulei Zhao, Chaoqun Chang, Fuqiang Ren
Developing high-performance scintillators has been restricted by issues like low X-ray absorption and inefficient triplet exciton utilization. Liu et al. in Nature Photonics, proposed a lanthanide-assisted triplet exciton recycling strategy. It facilitates efficient rare-earth organic scintillator design and drives applications in high-resolution radiographic imaging and X-ray-mediated photodynamic
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Three-dimensional biocompatible piezoelectric metamaterials for programmable multimodal bioelectronics Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Annan Chen, Huachen Cui, Chunze Yan
Biocompatible piezoelectrics have attracted growing interest in various biomedical applications recently. Existing biocompatible piezoelectrics are predominantly designed with simple geometry and monotonous functionality, making them insufficient for fulfilling the personalized needs of biological systems. Three-dimensional (3D) printing facilitates the creation of biocompatible piezoelectric metamaterials
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Water-solid interfaces: Unraveling electrostatic breakdown Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Wanyu Wang, Songkai Liu, Zi Ye, Chenjin Qin, Zhinan Zhang
Charge transfer at the water-solid interface is key to energy conversion and sensing, yet contact electrification remains unclear. This preview highlights electrostatic breakdown at the liquid-solid-gas interface and strategies to enhance charge storage and energy conversion for self-powered sensing.
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Interdependent Li2O sublimation and single-crystal cathode growth Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Xu Han, Xiaona Li
Producing high-quality, high-performance, and scalable single-crystalline layered cathodes remains challenging despite their desirability for advanced lithium-ion batteries. Now, Li2O sublimation, observed at 800°C–1000°C in oxygen, facilitates single-crystal growth and segregation, demonstrating excellent cycling stability and offering a scalable, recyclable solution for advanced cathode materials
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Feature assessment of MOF biocompatibility should consider statistical approaches beyond machine learning models Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Yoshiyasu Takefuji
Section snippets Main textMenon and Fairen-Jimenez investigated guiding the rational design of biocompatible metal-organic frameworks for drug delivery.1 In their computational pipeline workflow for assessment of metal organic framework (MOF) biocompatibility, the second workflow (ii) contains three fatal assumptions. The first is that feature selection is carried out to find the optimum subset of
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Response to feature assessment of MOF biocompatibility should consider statistical approaches beyond machine learning models Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Dhruv Menon, David Fairen-Jimenez
Section snippets Main textWe appreciate Takefuji’s interest and engagement with our work on the development of a machine learning (ML) guided computational pipeline for assessing metal-organic framework (MOF) biocompatibility.1 We note that Takefuji has published several letters remarking similar concerns across diverse domains, including—but not limited to—materials science, plant science, energy
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Porous cages: From molecular host-guest interactions to macroscopic smart materials Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Peiren Liu, Fang Fang, Niveen M. Khashab
Porous cages have emerged as highly attractive components for the development of stimuli-responsive smart materials, owing to their well-defined three-dimensional architectures and exceptional host-guest chemistry. Their excellent solubility and processibility facilitate seamless integration into various material forms, including thin films, membranes, and gels. This perspective highlights strategies
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Unlocking a self-driving research workflow for perovskite photovoltaics Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Lifang Xie, Yalan Zhang, Noah Peterkes, Xiaofen Li, Yike Guo, Yuanyuan Zhou
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From lab to industry: High-safety separators for lithium-ion/-metal batteries Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Jia Zhang, Zhongxiu Liu, Chenyang Dang, Xiaoqing Zhu, Tao Zhang, Jing Shen, Hao Yang, Yujie Zhang, Yunteng Cao, Chris Y. Yuan, C. Chase Cao, Guiyin Xu, Meifang Zhu
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Engineering emissive excited states in organic electroluminescent materials Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Peng Tao, Jibiao Jin, Xiaokang Zheng, Yong-Jin Pu, Wai-Yeung Wong
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Buffering super-expandable “breathing” alloying materials toward zero-expansion anodes: Why and how? Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Ziyun Zhao, Qianhui Yin, Jiaxing He, Zhitan Wu, Jing Xiao, Wei Wei, Yan-Bing He, Shichao Wu, Quan-Hong Yang
Volume changes present a significant challenge for battery electrodes, particularly for alloying anode materials, as they undergo repeated cycling of carriers (e.g., lithium). Buffer-space engineering has emerged as a promising strategy. However, the underlying mechanical, chemical, and electrical interactions of space interfaces remain poorly understood, which is crucial for understanding the failure
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Proton storage and transfer in aqueous batteries Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-04 Runzhi Qin, Mingzheng Zhang, Shunning Li, Feng Pan
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Approaching highly stable optoelectronic device operation at elevated temperature by locking backbone torsion of conjugated polymers Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-03 Zhiqiang Cao, Zhaofan Li, Angela Awada, Sara A. Tolba, Madison Mooney, Yangyang Wang, Yu-Cheng Chiu, Simon Rondeau-Gagné, Wenjie Xia, Xiaodan Gu
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Hydrogen bonding networks for tunable organic neuromorphic transistor arrays and in-sensor computing Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-02 Tiantian Zhou, Feifan Zhang, Jiandong Gao, Kaiming Nie, Gen Li, Wanxin Huang, Ruiheng Wang, Guofeng Tian, Haifeng Ling, Hongzhen Lin, Yan Zhao, Hui Yang, Jiangtao Xu, Deyang Ji, Wenping Hu
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Ultratough and ultrastiff elastomers formed by inorganic ionic molecular linkers Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-06-02 Yanhua Sang, Weifeng Fang, Kangren Kong, Haihua Pan, Yintian Guo, Xinyu He, Xin Yu, Shaofei Song, Ruikang Tang, Zhaoming Liu
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Quantum confinement effects in the topological Dirac semimetal α-Sn on InSb(111) Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-30 Chiara Massetti, Carolina Crosta, Florian Le Mardelé, Ivan Mohelský, Christian Martella, Alessandro Molle, Milan Orlita, Carlo Grazianetti, Fabio Pezzoli
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Leveraging giant magnetoelasticity in soft matter for acoustic energy harvesting Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-28 Junyi Yin, Shaolei Wang, Jing Xu, Xun Zhao, Guorui Chen, Xiao Xiao, Jun Chen
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The phase transition in copper pyrophosphate, Cu2P2O7: Insights and implications for the interpretation of negative thermal expansion Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-28 Martin T. Dove, Naike Shi
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Multiresonance-donor-multiresonance emitter for efficient narrowband blue OLEDs Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-27 Yi-Hui He, Jun-Yu Liu, Zhen Zhang, Guo-Wei Chen, Yan-Chun Wang, Guo Yuan, Feng-Ming Xie, Jian-Xin Tang, Yan-Qing Li
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The staggered-layer induced elasticity strengthening mechanism in flexible Bi2Te3 Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-21 Xiege Huang, Luoqi Wu, Mingyuan Hu, Xiaobin Feng, Pengcheng Zhai, Wenjuan Li, Bo Duan, Jiaqing He, Guodong Li, Qingjie Zhang, William A. Goddard
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Metallic monolayer iodinene sheets Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-20 Yan Luo, Chun Huang, Xiaocang Han, Dawei Zhou, Zishen Wang, Chao Zhu, Jingsi Qiao, Xiaoxu Zhao
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Regular mesoporous nanosheets with mesoscopic high surface pore curvature and accelerated ion-transport channels Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-20 Ziyan Han, Xiankai Fan, Luxiao Zhang, Kun Wang, Jie Wang, Hao Li, Guangmei Jiang, Wenhui Li, Lipeng Wang, Yuzhu Ma, Kun Lan, Bing Ma, Wei Zhang, Yujuan Zhao, Jun Li, Wei Li, Dongliang Chao, Dongyuan Zhao, Zaiwang Zhao
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Regenerable liquid metal nanozymes enable pH-regulated multi-enzyme mimicking Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-20 Yuhe Shen, Ruizhe Xing, Xiaojian Xu, Yuefei Wang, Renliang Huang, Rongxin Su, Michael D. Dickey, Wei Qi, Jie Kong
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Ultra-strong skin-core polymer aerogel fibers via wet-freeze spinning Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-19 Tiantian Xue, Jingyuan Tang, Chang Liu, Longsheng Zhang, Chao Zhang, Wei Fan, Tianxi Liu
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A thermoresponsive bioadhesive MXene hydrogel for intelligent brain-machine interaction sensing Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-16 Hailiang Zhou, Mohan Yang, Wenxin He, Yingxin Gao, Xiaobo Zhu, Jin Wu, Liqun Zhang, Pengbo Wan
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Lattice compressive strain-controlled electromagnetic wave absorption in TMDs by plasma-assisted rapid annealing Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-16 Jiaming Wen, Yiyang Liu, Shengchong Hui, Lechun Deng, Limin Zhang, Xiaomeng Fan, Qiang Chen, Xingmin Liu, Xiangcheng Li, Na Yan, Hongjing Wu
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Influence of interface asymmetry on phase partitioning in metal alloys Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-16 Andrew Martin, Sebastian Zaatini, Dhanush U. Jamadgni, Martin Thuo
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Space-confined catalysis of iodine with oxygen vacancy-driven nanopump for durable aqueous zinc-iodine batteries Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-15 Haisheng Huang, Yin Fan, Yonglin Wang, Li Wang, Yalong Jiang, Yu Cheng, Jiazhi Wang, Yunhai Zhu, Yingkui Yang
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Expanding MAX phases: Discovery of a double-A-layer Ti2Bi2C with rhombohedral symmetry Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-15 Yiftach Kushnir, Barak Ratzker, Martin Dahlqvist, Mark Baranov, Bar Favelukis, Asaf Nitsan, Nitzan Maman, Alexander Upcher, Vladimir Ezersky, Johanna Rosen, Maxim Sokol
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Self-intercalated 6R-TaS2 with reduced symmetry for room temperature nonlinear Hall effect Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-15 Shengqiang Wu, Wanghao Tian, Runlai Li, Ziyi Han, Xuan Zhou, Song Huang, Ping Li, Peng Song, Xiaoxu Zhao
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Living skin on a robot Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-13 Michio Kawai, Minghao Nie, Haruka Oda, Yuya Morimoto, Shoji Takeuchi
(Matter 5, 2190–2208; July 6, 2022)
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Decoding the evolution and dynamics of semicrystalline block copolymer assembly via liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-12 Jun Ho Hwang, Junyeon Yoon, Myungeun Seo, Joseph P. Patterson, Eunji Lee
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Coupled optical and structural properties of two-dimensional metal-halide perovskites across phase transitions Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-12 Perry W. Martin, Rand L. Kingsford, Seth R. Jackson, Garrett W. Collins, Jolene N. Keller, Emily J. Dalley, Connor G. Bischak
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Transformable and stimuli-responsive liquid metal for integrated, sustainable, and biomimetic DNA-based data storage Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-12 Yakun Gao, Biao Ma, Gangsheng Chen, Chengtao Xu, Ziyan Kong, Yanjie Chen, Chao Zhao, Duxin Chen, Wenwu Yu, Hong Liu
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Large propagation-direction-dependent circularly polarized emission and scattering anisotropies of a chiral organic-inorganic semiconductor Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-12 Alan J. Phillips, Liang Yan, Yi Xie, Matthew P. Hautzinger, Rebecca A. Scheidt, Heshan Hewa Walpitage, David B. Mitzi, Valy Vardeny, Wei You, Peter C. Sercel, Jeffrey L. Blackburn
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Matter Forums: Face-to-face still matters Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-07 Steve Cranford
Section snippets Main textThe recent global pandemic required an abrupt shift in how science was shared globally, for better or for worse. Virtual meetings were the new normal and have persisted (in a more limited context) past the pandemic's prime. There are numerous pros and cons to moving science online, but is it reflective of a larger trend, merely accelerated by pandemic restrictions? Indeed
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NeuroMuscles: Pioneering materials open a new path to artificial skeletal muscles Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-07 Chi Chen, Wenhao Hou, Ximin He
Human skeletal muscles possess a delicate structure that enables simultaneous sensing and actuation through neuromuscular fiber bundles. However, most current material designs face challenges in integrating these capabilities within a single fiber bundle and instead rely on centralized systems to process signals between separate sensors and actuators. This preview highlights NeuroMuscles, an innovative
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Microenvironment matters in nitrate reduction Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-07 Laiquan Li, Yuhang Liu, Yuhang Zhang, Dongliang Chao
Electrochemical nitrate reduction (NO3−RR) is strongly influenced by the interfacial microenvironment. In a recent publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Park et al.1 developed a “hydronium-in-salt” electrolyte that confines hydronium (H3O+) and nitrate (NO3−) ions within the solvation shell of Li+ ions, thereby facilitating the proton-coupled electron transfer from H3O+ to NO3−
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Phase-specific exosome secretion system: A neotype candidate for regenerative therapy Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-07 Chengliang Lyu, Shuang Wang, Wei Wei
Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) exosomes, capable of regulating various biological processes, hold great potential for regenerative therapy. Recently in Matter, Du et al. developed a phase-specific MSC exosome secretion system that on-demand produced pro-angiogenic and pro-neurogenic exosomes in the inflammation-proliferation and proliferation-remodeling phases, respectively. This innovation coordinated
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Axially aligned COF membranes unlock high-efficiency osmotic energy harvesting Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-07 Yanan Li, Xiaolu Li, Chunshui Yang, Linfeng Chen
The pursuit of osmotic energy has gained momentum due to environmental concerns. Jiang et al. developed a metal-ion-coordination-assisted orientation strategy for constructing axially aligned covalent organic framework (COF) membranes, achieving record osmotic energy power density of 320.8 W m−2 using real seawater/river water. The breakthrough highlights the importance of pore orientation and the
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Artificial perception system for dynamic recognition and trajectory extraction Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-07 Pengshan Xie, Johnny C. Ho
Multi-modal in-sensor computing offers a promising approach to enhancing data processing efficiency and achieving breakthroughs in bandwidth and energy consumption. In a recent study published in Device, Chang et al. introduced a porous-Si/Si artificial visual system created through electrochemical etching. The voltage regulation performance, driven by the photovoltaic effect, has the potential to
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Evolving metal-organic frameworks for highly active oxygen evolution Matter (IF 17.3) Pub Date : 2025-05-07 Pengqi Yang, Caoyu Yang, Zhengyan Wu, Zhiyong Tang
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts in water have exhibited promising catalytic activity thanks to abundant reaction sites and great tunability. Generally, metal centers in MOFs are known to experience geometric and electronic changes to form catalytically active sites in the OER process. However, the in situ restructuring process of metal centers in