nature-materials
Use when targeting Nature Materials or deciding whether a materials science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nature-materials --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Nature Materials (nature-materials) ## Journal positioning Nature Materials publishes papers that represent a conceptual advance in materials science — new understanding of structure-property-function relationships, discovery of a new class of materials, or demonstration of a new principle that will redirect how the community thinks about materials design, characterization, or application. It is not a venue for the best characterization study of a known class or for incremental performance records; the advance must be conceptual. The readership spans condensed-matter physics, chemistry, and engineering, so the significance must be legible across those communities. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Nature Portfolio site. ## When to trigger - The author names Nature Materials as the target venue for a high-significance materials advance. - A manuscript reveals a new structure-property relationship, new material class, or new design principle that changes how the materials community approaches a problem. - The author is
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the nature-materials skill do?
Use when targeting Nature Materials or deciding whether a materials science manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nature-materials --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.