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Stabilization of topological spin textures in layered magnets has the potential to drive the development of advanced low-dimensional spintronics devices. However, achieving reliable and flexible manipulation o...
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Control and understanding of ensembles of skyrmions is important for realization of future technologies. In particular, the order-disorder transition associated with the 2D lattice of magnetic skyrmions can ha...
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Open AccessEmergent chirality in a polar meron to skyrmion phase transition
Polar skyrmions are predicted to emerge from the interplay of elastic, electrostatic and gradient energies, in contrast to the key role of the anti-symmetric Dzyalozhinskii-Moriya interaction in magnetic skyrm...
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Operando studies reveal active Cu nanograins for CO2 electroreduction
Carbon dioxide electroreduction facilitates the sustainable synthesis of fuels and chemicals1. Although Cu enables CO2-to-multicarbon product (C2+) conversion, the nature of the active sites under operating condi...
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Non-volatile electric-field control of inversion symmetry
Competition between ground states at phase boundaries can lead to significant changes in properties under stimuli, particularly when these ground states have different crystal symmetries. A key challenge is to...
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Coexisting ferromagnetic–antiferromagnetic state in twisted bilayer CrI3
Moiré engineering1–3 of van der Waals magnetic materials4–9 can yield new magnetic ground states via competing interactions in moiré superlattices10–13. Theory predicts a suite of interesting phenomena, including...