The energy efficiency of metal–air batteries and water‐splitting techniques is severely
constrained by multiple electronic transfers in the heterogenous oxygen evolution reaction …

The discovery and control of new phases of matter is a central endeavour in materials
research. The emergence of atomically thin 2D materials, such as transition-metal …

Grain boundaries (GBs) play an important role in the mechanical behavior of polycrystalline
materials. Despite decades of investigation, the atomic-scale dynamic processes of GB …

Engineering metallic materials are an essential class of materials for a variety of industrial
applications due to their competitive mechanical properties, especially strength and ductility …

Coarse-grained materials are widely accepted to display the highest strain hardening and
the best tensile ductility. We experimentally report an attractive strain hardening rate …

Solid-state lithium metal batteries require accommodation of electrochemically generated
mechanical stress inside the lithium: this stress can be, up to 1 gigapascal for an …

If a bulk material can withstand a high load without any irreversible damage (such as plastic
deformation), it is usually brittle and can fail catastrophically,. This trade-off between strength …

Metals can be processed to reach ultra-high strength, but usually at a drastic loss of ductility.
Here, we review recent advances in overcoming this tradeoff, by purposely deploying …

Nanomaterial‐enabled flexible and stretchable electronics have seen tremendous progress
in recent years, evolving from single sensors to integrated sensing systems. Compared with …

We demonstrate the continuous and reversible tuning of the optical band gap of suspended
monolayer MoS2 membranes by as much as 500 meV by applying very large biaxial strains …