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• Article | 05 April 2023

  A LaCl₃-based lithium superionic conductor compatible with lithium metal

  A LaCl₃-based lithium superionic conductor is developed that has excellent interfacial compatibility with lithium metal electrodes, with its optimized Li_0.388Ta_0.238La_0.475Cl₃ electrolyte exhibiting good Li⁺ conductivity and low activation energy.

  • Yi-Chen Yin
  • , Jing-Tian Yang
  •  & Hong-Bin Yao

• Article | 09 November 2022

  Separating water isotopologues using diffusion-regulatory porous materials

  The authors demonstrate efficient separation of water isotopologues at room temperature using two porous coordination polymers that amplify their diffusion-rate difference.

  • Yan Su
  • , Ken-ichi Otake
  •  & Cheng Gu

• Article
  11 May 2022 | Open Access

  Materials synthesis at terapascal static pressures

  Pressures of up to 900 gigapascals (9 million atmospheres) are achieved in a laser-heated double-stage diamond cell, enabling the synthesis of Re₇N₃, and materials characterization is performed in situ using single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

  • Leonid Dubrovinsky
  • , Saiana Khandarkhaeva
  •  & Natalia Dubrovinskaia

• Article | 15 September 2021

  Directed assembly of layered perovskite heterostructures as single crystals

  Using organic molecules as directing groups, a wide range of perovskite heterostructures are shown to self-assemble in solution to yield single crystals.

  • Michael L. Aubrey
  • , Abraham Saldivar Valdes
  •  & Hemamala I. Karunadasa

• Letter | 11 September 2019

  Anthropogenic biases in chemical reaction data hinder exploratory inorganic synthesis

  Human scientists make unrepresentative chemical reagent and reaction condition choices, and machine-learning algorithms trained on human-selected experiments are less capable of successfully predicting reaction outcomes than those trained on randomly generated experiments.

  • Xiwen Jia
  • , Allyson Lynch
  •  & Joshua Schrier

• Letter | 09 January 2019

  Chemical control of structure and guest uptake by a conformationally mobile porous material

  A new metal–organic framework has several conformational degrees of freedom that can be modified by the external chemical environment to change the structure and trigger the uptake of a guest molecule.

  • Alexandros P. Katsoulidis
  • , Dmytro Antypov
  •  & Matthew J. Rosseinsky

• Letter | 31 July 2017

  High-temperature crystallization of nanocrystals into three-dimensional superlattices

  A bottom-up process to achieve rapid growth of micrometre-sized three-dimensional nanocrystal superlattices during colloidal synthesis at high temperatures is revealed by in situ small-angle X-ray scattering; the process is applicable to several colloidal materials.

  • Liheng Wu
  • , Joshua J. Willis
  •  & Christopher J. Tassone

• Letter | 04 May 2016

  Machine-learning-assisted materials discovery using failed experiments

  Failed chemical reactions are rarely reported, even though they could still provide information about the bounds on the reaction conditions needed for product formation; here data from such reactions are used to train a machine-learning algorithm, which is subsequently able to predict reaction outcomes with greater accuracy than human intuition.

  • Paul Raccuglia
  • , Katherine C. Elbert
  •  & Alexander J. Norquist