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# Materials Manuscript Architecture
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Use this file when planning a complete materials-science manuscript, rebuilding
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section logic, or deciding how the story should unfold.
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## Core article shapes
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### Mechanism paper
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Best for work where the main contribution is explaining why a material or
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interface produces a property.
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Order:
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1. Field problem and unresolved mechanism.
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2. Material design that isolates the suspected factor.
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3. Structural and chemical validation.
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4. Property or performance change.
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5. Mechanistic evidence and controls.
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6. Boundary, limitation, and generality.
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Risk: claiming causality from correlation. Require controls, comparative
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samples, in situ/operando evidence, simulations, or targeted perturbation.
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### Materials design paper
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Best for new composition, morphology, interface, heterostructure, or processing
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strategy.
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Order:
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1. Bottleneck in existing material designs.
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2. Design principle.
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3. Synthesis or fabrication route.
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4. Structure/composition/interface evidence.
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5. Property improvement.
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6. Application performance and comparison.
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7. Mechanistic rationale.
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Risk: novelty is only synthetic variation. Make the design principle and
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property-mechanism link explicit.
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### Device/application paper
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Best for flexible electronics, sensors, triboelectric/piezoelectric devices,
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photodetectors, batteries, catalysis cells, membranes, or biomedical devices.
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Order:
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1. Application requirement and failure mode of existing devices.
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2. Material/device architecture.
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3. Device-relevant properties.
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4. Benchmark performance.
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5. Stability, durability, repeatability, and real-condition tests.
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6. Practical boundary.
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Risk: impressive peak metric without durability, reproducibility, or fair
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benchmarking.
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### Platform/generalization paper
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Best when the method applies across multiple materials, substrates, ions,
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analytes, reactions, or device formats.
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Order:
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1. General limitation across a class of systems.
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2. Transferable principle.
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3. Representative material examples.
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4. Shared characterization and performance logic.
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5. Limits of generality.
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Risk: claiming universality from too few examples.
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## Paragraph jobs
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Each paragraph should do one job:
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- `Context`: why the field or application matters.
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- `Gap`: what existing materials fail to solve.
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- `Design`: why this composition/interface/architecture should help.
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- `Evidence`: what data prove the structure or property.
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- `Mechanism`: why the observed change occurs.
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- `Comparison`: how it differs from controls or literature.
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- `Boundary`: what remains unproven or condition-dependent.
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## Section-level order
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Abstract:
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`need -> bottleneck -> design -> evidence -> performance -> implication`
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Introduction:
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`field demand -> material limitation -> prior strategies -> unresolved gap ->
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present design and proof`
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Results:
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`design/synthesis -> structure -> property -> mechanism -> application ->
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stability/generalization`
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Discussion:
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`central advance -> evidence meaning -> relation to prior work -> limitation ->
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future use`
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Conclusion:
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`contribution -> decisive evidence -> implication -> boundary`
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