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Advanced Materials Results Framing (advmat-results-framing) · brycewang-stanford | DecimalAI

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Advanced Materials Results Framing (advmat-results-framing)

brycewang-stanford/advmat-results-framing

Source brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills ↗License MIT

Use when an Advanced Materials result is sound but its central advance and significance are not yet sharp, or when a Communication's opening paragraph must double as its abstract. Structures the one-advance narrative; does not run characterization or design figures.

SkillScore100Maintained

Automatic

Writing & Editing pack

Last verified 8/15/2026

What it changes

Passed 22 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 15 of 22 without it.

Without skill68%

With skill100%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Recommends advmat-methods or advmat-figures as downstream actions.
Specifies advmat-methods or advmat-figures as the next workflow step.
Recommends advmat-methods or advmat-figures for the downstream next step.

and 7 more in the full report

7 fixed15 passed either way0 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +32 pp
Tokens: +24%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -29%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v122 of 22 cases passed with skill

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See it in action

One of 7 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 7

Prompt

I am preparing an Advanced Materials Communication manuscript on a self-assembled MXene heterostructure for zinc-ion batteries. Here is my current abstract draft and outline of results: [draft text]. Could you evaluate my manuscript framing? Please identify the core single-sentence advance, evaluate whether my working title reflects that advance, verify the completeness of my structure to property to function chain, check if my opening paragraph fulfills all four key abstract moves for a Communication, list any secondary data that should be shifted to the supplementary information, and indicate what downstream section I should work on next.

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Uses the bracketed header output format such as 【Primary advance】 and 【Structure→property→function】.	Missed	Passed
Recommends advmat-methods or advmat-figures for the downstream next step.	Missed	Passed

case-01 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md82 linessingle file

Advanced Materials Results Framing (advmat-results-framing)

When to trigger

You have the data but the "why this is an advance" is fuzzy
The draft reads like a chronological synthesis-then-characterization log, not one argument
You have several results and have not chosen the headline advance
You are writing a Communication and must fold the abstract into the opening paragraph
advmat-scope-fit returned Adv. Mater. but flagged the impact framing as weak

The one-advance discipline

An Adv. Mater. paper is organized around one central advance — a new material, a new mechanism, or a new property regime. Everything else is support.

Primary advance — the single sentence the title and abstract (or opening paragraph) both encode.
Supporting results — the structure–property evidence and the device demonstration that establish the advance.
Everything else — process-optimization sweeps, ancillary characterization, secondary samples → Supporting Information (see advmat-supplementary).

If you have two co-equal advances, you likely have two papers, or one belongs in a sibling journal.

The structure → property → function chain

Materials referees reward a clean causal chain. Frame the paper so each link is explicit:

Structure/composition — what the material is (new phase, architecture, interface, composition).
Property — the measured property that structure produces (transport, mechanical, optical, electrochemical).
Function/device — the property demonstrated in a working device, benchmarked against the state of the art.

The advance lives at whichever link is genuinely new; name it, and show the chain holds end to end. A paper that jumps from structure to a device metric without the property mechanism in between invites the "why does it work?" rejection.

The opening (Communication: opening paragraph = abstract)

In a Communication, there is no separate abstract — the first paragraph carries the significance and must read as a self-contained mini-paper. A reliable four-move pattern (also the model for a Research Article abstract):

The materials context — one or two sentences a non-specialist materials scientist understands.
The open problem / limitation — the trade-off, instability, or missing material that has blocked progress.
What this work reports — the central advance, stated plainly, with the key metric or qualitative surprise.
Why it matters broadly — the design consequence for a wider materials or device community.

Do not open with a paragraph-long literature tour. The advance should appear in the first paragraph.

Track record

Benchmark

22 / 22

test cases passed, vs 15 / 22 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

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✓ 3 of 3 passed

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License MITImported 8/3/2026Version v1

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Advanced Materials Results Framing (advmat-results-framing)

When to trigger

The one-advance discipline

The structure → property → function chain

The opening (Communication: opening paragraph = abstract)

Track record

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Adoption

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