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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 paper presents an uncertainty-aware, multi-fidelity machine learning framework that screened 5.5 million compounds to identify over 400 surfaces with extreme work functions, revealing new chemical motifs like lanthanide-rich terminations for low work functions and metalloids for high work functions to accelerate materials discovery.
This paper challenges traditional molecular mobility-based models of glassy polymers by demonstrating through combined photobleaching and mechanical experiments that partial unloading does not reduce mobility, leading to the development of a new model where stress-induced changes in the fraction of efficiently packed material govern the shear modulus rather than the relaxation time.
This study demonstrates that the molecular orientation and liquid crystal-like order in vapor-deposited glasses of a phenanthroperylene-ester can be precisely controlled and predicted using rate-temperature superposition, extending this principle to hexagonal columnar systems for potential organic electronic applications.
This study demonstrates that physical vapor deposition (PVD) of the organic semiconductor Alq3 at controlled temperatures significantly enhances its resistance to crystallization by extending the glass-to-liquid transformation time, offering a new strategy to improve the stability of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) devices.
This study characterizes the T1, T2, and complex permittivities of various hydrogels, paramagnetic salt solutions, and oils at 0.35, 1.5, and 3 Tesla to identify optimal materials for constructing MRI phantoms with specific dielectric and relaxivity properties.
This study experimentally demonstrates that heavy chromium doping in PbSnTe alloys pins the Fermi level near Weyl nodes across a wide composition range, thereby inducing a tunable three-dimensional Weyl semimetal phase with a measurable chiral anomaly in the composition range of .
This paper reports the synthesis and comprehensive structural, optical, and magnetic characterization of Fe3O4@TiO2 and Fe3O4@SiO2@TiO2 core-shell nanostructures, highlighting their potential as multifunctional platforms for multimodal cancer therapies combining magnetic hyperthermia and photo-responsive treatments.
This study demonstrates that twistronics can induce moiré-periodic polarization vortices and multiferroic behavior in metallic SrRuO₃ films by leveraging shear strain gradients to overcome charge screening, thereby extending topological polarization design into the realm of metals.
Using in situ transmission electron microscopy, researchers demonstrate that repeated ultrafast laser-induced magnetostructural phase transitions in FeRh thin films generate and rearrange dislocation networks, which switch the nucleation mechanism from homogeneous to heterogeneous, thereby lowering the transition temperature and stabilizing sub-micron magnetic vortices.
This study validates the quantitative accuracy of Electron Magnetic Circular Dichroism (EMCD) for measuring spin and orbital magnetic moments in FeRh down to sub-10 nm spatial resolution, demonstrating its capability to characterize local magnetic properties in correlated materials that are inaccessible to photon-based techniques.