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Copper‐Based Crystalline‐Metallic Glass Composite Thin Films: A Novel Material with Enhanced Strength and Thermally Stable Nanotwins

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A Cu‐based crystal‐glass composite with high‐density twins is identified by a fast screening technique using combinatorial sputtering together with XRD and nanoindentation mapping. This bamboo‐like structure demonstrates homogenous plastic flow and retains high strength during in situ high temperature tests, up to 1 GPa at 550°C, owing to those ...
Chunhua Tian, Amit Sharma, Krzysztof Wieczerzak, Alexander Groetsch, Manish Jain, Nicolò Maria della Ventura, Remo Widmer, Fedor F. Klimashin, Johann Michler, Jakob Schwiedrzik, Xavier Maeder   +10 more
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Tailored Polymer Hole‐Transporting Materials with Multisite Passivation Functions for Effective Buried‐Interface Engineering of Inverted Quasi‐2D Perovskite Solar Cells

Advanced Science
Although quasi‐2D Ruddlesden‒Popper (RP) perovskite exhibits advantages in stability, their photovoltaic performance are still inferior to 3D counterparts.
Xiujie Zhao, Yinyu Bao, Zhengwu Pan, Qianyu Su, Darui Peng, Deqing Gao, Chengrong Yin, Jianpu Wang, Wei Huang   +8 more
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MAGTWIST: A Magnetically‐Driven Rotary Actuator Using a Traveling‐Wave With Integrated Stiffness Tunability

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
MAGTWIST: A compact magnetic rotary actuator, enabling smooth, stepless rotation, and on‐demand locking. Inspired by peristalsis, a soft polymer belt generates a traveling‐wave, enabling 270° rotation when heated. Cooling stiffens the belt, locking it in position and enabling it to withstand high loads.
Simon Frieler, Jean‐Paul P.M. de Vries, Sarthak Misra, Venkatasubramanian Kalpathy Venkiteswaran   +3 more
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Gourd‐Inspired Design of Unit Cell with Multiple Gradients for Physiological‐Range Pressure Sensing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Gourd‐shaped micro‐dome arrays with coordinated modulus, conductivity, and geometric gradients co‐optimize sensitivity and linearity in piezoresistive tactile sensors. Under pressure, a solid upper dome embeds into a porous lower dome, triggering rapid contact‐area growth and series‐to‐parallel conduction, enabling unsaturated, intensity‐resolved ...
Jiayi Xu, Ming Lei, Yuanzhe Liang, Biao Qi, Ziyi Dai, Yong Zhao, Bingpu Zhou   +6 more
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Indirect Band Edge and Chain‐Locked Linear Dichroism in the Quasi‐1D Van der Waals Antiferromagnet AgCrP2S6

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
AgCrP2S6 reveals a momentum‐indirect band edge (≈1.35 eV) and chain‐locked linear dichroism: the first direct transitions emerge at 1.6–1.8 eV for E||a. Resonant Raman and photoemission corroborate this assignment. In ACPS/graphene heterostructures, photocurrent turns on above ≈1.5 eV and follows the same polarization selection rules (anisotropy ≈0.53),
Oleksandr Volochanskyi, Sabrina Juergensen, Václav Valeš, Kumari Surbhi, Martin Mergl, Kseniia Mosina, Zdeněk Sofer, Jan Honolka, Patryk Kusch, Martin Kalbáč   +9 more
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2D Magnetic and Topological Quantum Materials and Devices for Ultralow Power Spintronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
2D magnets and topological quantum materials enable ultralow‐power spintronics by combining robust magnetic order with symmetry‐protected, Berry‐curvature‐driven transport. Fundamentals of 2D anisotropy and spin‐orbit‐coupling induced band inversion are linked to scalable growth and vdW stacking.
Brahmdutta Dixit, Yifei Yang, Shawn Li, Yu‐Chia Chen, Qi Jia, Jian‐Ping Wang   +5 more
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Frontier Advances of Emerging High‐Entropy Anodes in Alkali Metal‐Ion Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Recent advances in microscopic morphology control of high‐entropy anode materials for alkali metal‐ion batteries. Abstract With the growing demand for sustainable energy, portable energy storage systems have become increasingly critical. Among them, the development of rechargeable batteries is primarily driven by breakthroughs in electrode materials ...
Liang Du, Kaidi Zhang, Liang Wang, Di Zhao, Mengqing Hu, Mingli Li, Ming Zhou, Zhenzhen Wu, Mengyang Dong, Bo Fu, Porun Liu, Yun Wang, Hongxia Wang, Yuantong Gu, Lei Zhang   +14 more
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Nanothermometry in Living Cells: Physical Limits, Conceptual and Material Challenges

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Heat and temperature are fundamental to life. When nanothermometers began probing regions as small as a living cell, they triggered controversial claims of large intracellular temperature gradients. We review physical constraints energy‐conservation, entropy production, thermodynamic fluctuations, and molecular dynamics.
Taras Plakhotnik
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Bio‐Inspired Magnetically Tunable Structural Colors from Elliptical Self‐Assembled Block Copolymer Microparticles

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Cephalopod‐inspired photonic microparticles with dynamic structural coloration are fabricated via confined self‐assembly of linear block copolymers into ellipsoids containing stacked lamellae. Embedded superparamagnetic nanoparticles enable rapid magnetic alignment, restoring vivid, angle‐dependent color.
Gianluca Mazzotta, Simone Bertucci, Jose Mendoza‐Carreño, Agustín Mihi, Paola Lova, Davide Comoretto, Ullrich Steiner, Marco Lattuada, Andrea Dodero   +8 more
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Two‐Way Shape Memory Alloy and Polymer Composite Hybrid Smart Actuator With High Speed, Accuracy, and Reversible Deformation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Tailored thermo‐mechanical properties of shape memory polymer composites enable large reversible deformation as well as high actuation speed. Moreover, a structural design with curvature in the transverse direction achieves sub‐second actuation on heating and a larger recovery ratio on cooling. Finally, these newly developed smart two‐way actuators can
Dajeong Kang, Seong Yeon Park, Yitro Samuel Aditya, Ha Eun Lee, Wonvin Kim, Sangyoon Bae, Seong Su Kim   +6 more
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