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Condensed matter physics and materials science form a dynamic partnership, exploring how the collective behavior of atoms gives rise to the unique properties of solids and liquids. This field bridges the gap between fundamental quantum mechanics and the practical engineering of everything from flexible electronics to superconductors, turning abstract theories into tangible innovations that shape our daily lives.
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Below are the latest papers in condensed matter and materials science, organized by their most recent publication dates.
This study demonstrates that while Sn and Fe additives enhance the activity and stability of Pd-based electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidation in alkaline media, Nb additives induce severe dissolution that destabilizes the catalyst, highlighting the critical need to evaluate additive stability during the design phase for direct alcohol fuel cell applications.
This paper demonstrates a novel route to multifunctional nanostructures by engineering laterally differentiated polymorphs of iron garnet and perovskite on patterned substrates, enabling electric-field control of the garnet's magnonic and magnetooptical properties for voltage-driven devices.
This study introduces a defect-chemistry-consistent phase-field model explicitly coupled with charge transition levels to demonstrate how these levels govern space-charge layer formation, modulate grain boundary migration kinetics through rapid hole transport, and dictate the distinct properties of slow and fast boundaries in Fe-doped SrTiO₃.
This paper demonstrates that linearly polarized light can non-thermally control ferromagnetic resonance frequency via the inverse Cotton-Mouton effect, with theoretical predictions showing excellent agreement with simulations and experimental data for bismuth-substituted yttrium iron garnet.
This paper demonstrates a hybrid-2D excitonic metasurface platform using gate-tunable monolayer WS2 and inverse design to achieve independent, full-range control of both amplitude and phase in the visible spectrum, enabling reconfigurable wavefront shaping for applications like beam steering.
This study reveals that immotile microbial colonies, such as yeast, can achieve long-range dispersal in physically confining environments by metabolically generating CO bubbles that fracture the surrounding matrix and hydrodynamically entrain cells, establishing a novel mode of population-scale motion termed "metabolically driven active matter."
This perspective argues that differentiable hybrid force fields, which combine physically motivated functional forms with neural network corrections, resolve the critical trade-off between speed, accuracy, and calibratability to enable scalable, closed-loop autonomous discovery of electrolytes.
This DFT study demonstrates that the double perovskite halides Li2InBiX6 (X = Cl, Br, I) are thermodynamically stable semiconductors with direct bandgaps and strong visible-light absorption, making them promising candidates for combined optoelectronic, thermoelectric, and photocatalytic water oxidation applications in energy conversion.
This paper establishes a first-frequency-moment optical Hall absorption sum rule for time-reversal-breaking systems, demonstrating that it vanishes for zero-field moiré topological bands while taking a universal value determined by magnetic flux in Hofstadter models, thereby providing a rigorous framework to link low- and high-frequency spectral contributions and diagnose Landau-level mixing.
This study demonstrates that oxophilic silver nanoparticles with low palladium and gold loading (5 wt% total) serve as highly efficient and durable electrocatalysts for ethanol and glycerol oxidation in alkaline media, outperforming commercial high-loading Pd/C catalysts while offering tunable oxidation pathways and enhanced resistance to poisoning.