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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72616-0 Thermoelectric devices require more scalable, cost-effective methods of manufacturing. Here, the authors ink print high-performing La3-xTe4 legs with interlocked electrodes and evaluate their interfaces with creep property measurements and modeling.

There’s a mineral called bustamentite that almost nobody studies. It forms in flat hexagonal plates, grows readily in warm water, and turns up as an unwanted contaminant in perovskite solar cells. For decades it sat at the margins of materials science, useful mostly as a precursor for more fashionable compounds. Then a group of physicists decided to look at it very carefully in the terahertz rang…

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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72625-z Guan et al. report a molecular regulator to control crystallization kinetics in Sn-based perovskite, resulting in elongated island-like grain structure that regulates charge injection and recombination, enabling NIR-II LEDs with efficiency of 10.7%, peak radiance of 173 W sr-1 m-2, and operational lifetime of 1,3…

Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41401-026-01794-w Nanoparticles for autoimmune diseases: advancing diagnostics and therapeutic solutions

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A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling rapid analysis of structures that were previously beyond computational reach. Quantum technologies, including quantum computers, rely on materials that display unusual quantum effects under specific conditions. Researchers have found that these properties can also be engineered…

Researchers at Penn State have demonstrated that ordinary adhesive tape has a specialized type of material memory capable of storing a sequence of multiple memories that can be fine-tuned to have different strengths or be erased to make way for new memories.

Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72660-w Structurally engineered graphene oxide membranes fabricated by heterogeneous co-assembly enable rapid, selective solvent dehydration through coupled water adsorption and diffusion in sp3 /sp2 nanochannels, showing high flux with precise molecular sieving.

Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72512-7 A Monte Carlo Potts model was developed to simulate solidification and grain growth within a single algorithm with low computational cost. The model can quantitatively describe solidification behavior and microstructural morphology across scales.

Senior member Katie Sun participated in the University of Pennsylvania’s 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition and won 2nd place! Penn 3MT is a university-wide competition designed to showcase graduate students’ research and communications skills in a three-minute talk to a general audience. Katie’s thesis centers around the adsorption of nanoparticles to polymer brushes, which she …

Porous glasses from zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) show strong potential for gas separation applications. By applying concepts from silicate glass science, we developed a strategy to tune their structure and properties, expanding the currently limited chemical design space of ZIF glasses.

For decades, relaxor ferroelectrics have powered everything from medical ultrasounds to sonar systems, yet their inner atomic structure remained a mystery—until now. Researchers have finally mapped their three-dimensional structure in unprecedented detail, uncovering hidden patterns in how electric charges are arranged at the nanoscale. The breakthrough not only challenges long-standing assumptio…

Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-71517-6 Plasmonic nanoparticles show promise for photocatalysis, yet the dynamics of charge transfer remain poorly understood. Here, the authors demonstrate the light-driven growth of a CdS shell on Au nanocubes, correlating shell thickness with charge transfer efficiency at the single-particle level.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01625-0 Bioelectronics based on a three-dimensional topological interpenetrating architecture reinforced with covalent chemical anchoring can be used for long-term electrophysiological recording, electrical stimulation and electrochemical sensing in body locations subjected to constant movement.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01619-y A three-dimensional topological interpenetrating architecture can be used to reinforce the interfaces of bioelectronic devices, providing chronically stable in vivo signal recording and stimulation.

Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72536-z Cation migration plays a critical role in the evolution of perovskite electrodes but is not fully understood. Here, the authors combine theory and experiment to show that cation migration coupled with phase segregation forms a highly active nanocomposite electrode.

Iron ions drift into a freshly printed gel, soaking through its polymer mesh the way water moves into a sponge. Then the gel is dipped into a second bath, this one laced with hydroxide ions, and something clicks: the iron bonds, crystallizes, becomes magnetite, iron oxide nanoparticles forming in place, locked inside the structure, too small to see without an electron microscope. The gel, moments…