Advanced Materials
Articles in this Issue
Monitoring Cell Membrane Hydration Using a Fluorescent Probe Sensitive to Trace Water
ABSTRACT The interaction between the cell membrane and water plays an important role in maintaining membrane structure and function. However, direct observation of cell membrane hydr...
Measuring the Hall Effect in Hysteretic Materials
ABSTRACT Measurement of the Hall effect is a ubiquitous probe for materials discovery, characterization, and metrology. Inherent to the Hall measurement geometry, the measured signal...
Emergent Spin Supersolids in Frustrated Quantum Materials
ABSTRACT Recent years have witnessed the emergence of spin supersolids in frustrated quantum magnets, establishing a material‐based platform for supersolidity beyond its original con...
Lead Halide Perovskite Photoelectrocatalysis
ABSTRACT Lead halide perovskites have emerged as an outstanding class of light harvesting materials. While much progress has been made in solar cell efficiency,...
Well‐Defined Heterocatalysts for Plastic Upcycling: From Design to Applications
ABSTRACT The global plastic pollution issues demand transformative upcycling technologies. As a kind of advanced material, well‐defined heterocatalysts (WDHCs), which encompass well‐...
Stacking Fault Energy Engineering as the Pathway to Materials With Exceptional Performance
ABSTRACT Stacking fault energy (SFE) is a core thermodynamic parameter governing defect evolution, offering a critical pathway to circumvent the strength‐ductili...
Complete Phase Transformation of Ir Nanowire Network into Defect‐Rich Oxide Catalyst for High‐Performance PEM Water Electrolysis
ABSTRACT Iridium‐based catalysts remain the most reliable option for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers (PEMWEs)...
A 3D‐Printed Scaffolded Hydrogel Microneedle Array Biosensor for Real‐Time, Continuous Monitoring
ABSTRACT Hydrogel‐based biosensors offer a promising platform for designing microneedles capable of continuously tracking biomarkers in real time. However, such biosensors have been...
Thermodynamic Limits to Molecular Doping in Conjugated Polymers: A Perspective on Phase Behavior and Miscibility
ABSTRACT Molecular doping of conjugated polymers (CPs) is essential for advancing organic electronics yet achieving high and stable doping efficiency remains a s...
Room‐Temperature Skyrmionic Synapse in 2D Ferromagnet Fe <sub>3</sub> GaTe <sub>2</sub> Operating via Collective Spin Texture Transformation
ABSTRACT Magnetic skyrmions, as topologically protected spin textures, hold great potential for energy‐efficient neuromorphic systems. While artificial synapses...
Reconstruction of Metal‐Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Performance
ABSTRACT Electrocatalytic reactions serve as a core enabling technology in energy storage and conversion, where the rational design of electrocatalysts plays a pivotal role in drasti...
Unveiling Exsolution‐Induced Giant Electronic and Magnetic Property Changes in Non‐Stoichiometric Titanate Perovskite Thin Films
ABSTRACT Exsolution of nanoparticles, which forms socketed nanostructures partially submerged into a host metal‐oxide surface under in‐situ reducing conditions,...
Development and Applications of Antifreeze Materials: From Nature to Design
ABSTRACT Ice formation poses significant challenges across multiple domains, including biomedicine, food industry, infrastructure, and intelligent sensors, where freezing environment...
Unveiling Layer‐Dependent Phase Transition and Lattice Dynamics in Two‐Dimensional InSe
ABSTRACT Two‐dimensional (2D) indium selenide (InSe) has attracted considerable interest due to its superior ballistic transport properties, superplasticity, and...
Phase Boundary Engineering of Co <sub>2</sub> P‐CoP Branched Nanoparticles Enhances Cobalt Oxidation for Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis
ABSTRACT The boundaries between two different crystal phases contain atoms with unique electronic structures and coordination numbers that can significantly infl...
Miniature Soft Robot With Magnetically Reprogrammable Surgical Functions
ABSTRACT Magnetic miniature robots are untethered actuators, which can prospectively make existing minimally invasive surgery considerably safer and painless, and enable unprecedente...
Thermal‐Driven Diode Polarity Switching From Competing Helical Superconducting States in WTe <sub>2</sub> /α‐Fe <sub>2</sub> O <sub>3</sub> Heterostructures
ABSTRACT The superconducting diode effect has recently received considerable attention in condensed matter physics as a sensitive probe of symmetry‐broken and un...
Energetic Offset in Organic Solar Cells‐ Importance, Confusion and Outlook
ABSTRACT The energetic offset between donor (D) and acceptor (A) is one of the most important parameters which influences the charge generation and voltage loss, and hence overall pe...
Prelithiation for Lithium‐Ion Batteries: Material and Process Innovations
ABSTRACT Prelithiation has emerged as a pivotal strategy to address irreversible lithium loss in lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) and to unlock higher energy density electrode chemistrie...
Switchable Magnonic Crystals Based on Spin Crossover/CrSBr Heterostructures
ABSTRACT The progress of magnonics ultimately depends on material platforms that offer precise control of spin wave propagation. Here, we put forward a chemical...
Phase Engineering of Atomically Precise Nanoclusters (APNCs) of Gold and Beyond
ABSTRACT In solid state and nanoscale materials, a phase refers to a distinct entity that can be identified in X‐ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. For bulk metals,...
A Dual‐Targeting Strategy Against ROS and GSK‐3β With a PEGylated Fullerene/Smart Hydrogel Synergistic System for Diabetic Bone Regeneration
ABSTRACT Diabetic bone regeneration remains a significant clinical challenge due to a hostile microenvironment characterized by oxidative stress and chronic infl...
Dynamically Hydrogen‐Bonded Microphase Separation Enabling Phase Transition in the Gel Composites With Tunable UCST
ABSTRACT Thermal‐responsive hydrogels have broad applications, yet it is challenging to tune their phase transition temperature over a wide range, especially for UCST‐type of hydroge...
Path‐Decoupled Cation‐Eutaxy III–V van der Waals Memristive Semiconductors for Mitigating the Neuromorphic Accuracy‐Energy Trade‐off
ABSTRACT Transistor‐based computing faces a fundamental energy‐resolution trade‐off: lowering the conductance reduces the programming energy (Eprog) but simultan...
N‐Acetylcysteine–Mediated Surface Remodeling of Inhaled mRNA Lipid Nanoparticles Enables Coordinated Mucosal and Systemic Antitumor Immunity
ABSTRACT Inhaled messenger RNA (mRNA) delivery is constrained by aerosolization‐induced stress and airway barriers that limit post‐deposition transport and immune activation. Here, w...