2026-09-14
Wei Fan
Xuanhe Zhao, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks to Nature Materials about the considerations of mechanical and materials properties to achieve biocompatible and stable bioelectronics.
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02739-82026-09-14
Romy Ettlinger, Stefan Wuttke, Quim Peña
To increase the technological value of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and promote their translation into real-world applications, societal needs, market interests and industry requirements need to be considered early on in MOF research and development.
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02705-42026-09-14
Wenyi Zhou, Roland K. Kawakami
Photoexcited excitons in the two-dimensional antiferromagnet CrSBr are found to act as a source of spin torque, driving nonlinear magnon dynamics through phase-coherent energy exchange that persists well beyond the optical pulse.
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02730-32026-09-14
Pratap Chandra Adak, Iris E. McDaniel, Suvodeep Paul, Caleb Heuvel-Horwitz, Bikash Das, Vitali Kozlov, Kseniia Mosina, Arun Ramanathan, Xavier Roy, Zdeněk Sofer, Tian Zhong, Akashdeep Kamra, Arno Thielens, Andrea Alú, Vinod M. Menon
Broadband microwave-to-optical conversion is demonstrated in the layered antiferromagnet CrSBr through strong magnon–exciton coupling, offering a scalable platform for quantum transduction.
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02748-72026-09-11
Shuyu Liu, Lang Jiang, Yuanyuan Hu
A p-type dopant whose radical anion decomposes after electron transfer can continuously maintain the doping reaction and boost hole densities by orders of magnitude.
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02736-x2026-09-10
Uroš Tkalec, Simon Čopar
Colloidal particles steered by light weave the defect lines of a nematic liquid crystal into programmable crossings, realizing non-Abelian braiding operations that can be watched, reordered and compiled in real space.
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02741-02026-09-09
Catriona Thomson, Ross S. Forgan
The glass transition temperatures of melting mixtures of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and phenanthroline are lowered through transient coordination, enabling melt-quenched vitrification of previously unmeltable MOFs.
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02738-92026-09-08
Qiannan Cao, Yingli Yao, Wenming Zheng, Hongqian Liu, Mingxia Jiang, Dayang Xie, Siting Zhang, Pijun Su, Huilin Yuan, Xiaoyuan Chen, Huapan Fang, Huayu Tian
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-026-02753-w