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Silicon-based photoelectrodes are attractive for solar fuel production, but suffer from vulnerability to corrosion. Using dielectric breakdown, a generic approach to improve the performance of metaloxidesemiconductor photoelectrodes is proposed.
Nature Materials now requests that all original research articles contain a Data Availability Statement declaring the accessibility of the data and where it can be found.
The combination of topological properties and magnetic order can lead to new quantum states and exotic physical phenomena. In particular, the coupling between topological insulators and antiferromagnets enables magnetic and electronic structural engineering.
One of the most salient features of hybrid lead halide perovskites is the extended lifetime of their photogenerated charge carriers. This property has now been shown experimentally to originate from a slow, thermally activated recombination process.
The thermal conductivities of superatom crystals have significant contributions from extended phonon states and show a remarkable temperature dependence due to orientational ordering.
A miniaturized camera has been developed by integrating a planar metasurface lens doublet with a CMOS image sensor. The metasurface lens doublet corrects the monochromatic aberration and thus delivers nearly diffraction-limited image quality over a wide field of view.
This Perspective provides an overview of the contributions of materials science to a sustainable energy future, and discusses possible regulatory paths to support this transition.
This Review describes the sunlight conversion strategies — and their technological implementations — that are currently being investigated to realize solar cells with efficiencies beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit.
Lessons learned from coherent phenomena in biological photosynthetic systems may be useful to improve energy- and charge-transport in disordered materials. This Review describes coherence and its potential beneficial effects in photovoltaics.
Significant progress in battery technology is crucial to ensure a transition towards a carbon-neutral society. Recent advances in both sustainability and operando techniques together with remaining challenges and possible solutions are now reviewed.
Advances in electrocatalysis at interfaces are vital for driving technological innovations related to energy. New materials developments for efficient hydrogen and oxygen production in electrolysers and in fuel cells are described.
Converting sunlight into fuels is attractive for energy storage and photoelectrocatalytic technologies. Scientific challenges related to developing suitable photoabsorbers, efficient catalysts and understanding their interfaces are now reviewed.
Room-temperature thermal conductivities in superatomic crystals are found to be proportional to the sound speed, while their behaviour can switch between amorphous- or crystalline-like, depending on temperature and the nature of superatoms used.
Heterostructures formed by the magnetic topological insulator Cr-doped (Bi,Sb)2Te and the antiferromagnet CrSb are shown to exhibit emergent interfacial magnetic phenomena that can be tuned with the heterostructure geometry.
Calcium ions play a vital role in enabling synaptic plasticity in biological systems. The dynamic behaviour of these ions has now been emulated in a metal atom diffusion-based memristor.
The electronic properties of bulk solids composed of zwitterionic tetrathiafulvalene-extended dicarboxylate radicals are investigated, showing highly conducting metallic behaviour in single-component molecular systems having only s and p electrons.
Time-resolved photo-conductance and microwave conductance investigations reveal that methylammonium lead iodide perovskites have an indirect bandgap at temperatures relevant to photovoltaic applications.
Understanding interactions between water and oxides is crucial for energy storage and photocatalysis. The combined effect of water and electron irradiation on perovskite catalysts results in structural oscillation triggered by gaseous bubbles.
Silicon-based photoelectrodes are attractive for solar fuel production, but suffer from vulnerability to corrosion. Using dielectric breakdown, a generic approach to improve the performance of metal-oxide semiconductor photoelectrodes is proposed.
Encapsulation of single-atom and particulate gold within growing zeolite frameworks generates active catalysts with exceptionally high thermal stability.
A porous microwell platform that generates large-scale arrays of microparticles with varying shape, size and modulus with high specificity shows applicability in anti-counterfeiting and cell-screening applications.
The penetration of tissues with syringe needles is a common clinical practice that inevitably results in blood loss at the puncture site. This blood loss can now be eliminated using self-sealing haemostatic needles.