Use when polishing the prose of an Advanced Materials manuscript for Wiley house style, concision, precise materials nomenclature and units, and readability across materials subfields. Polishes language; does not restructure the advance or manage the length budget.
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Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 9 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 13 of 22 without it.
Without skill60%
With skill40%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
The response removes qualitative hype terms from the microfluidics results description.
1 fixed15 passed either way3 still failing3 broke
Pass-rate lift
-20 pp
Tokens
+77%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-8%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v116 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
A test case the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
Prompt
Edit this results paragraph on liquid metal microfluidics for Advanced Materials, de-hyping claims and checking metric conditions. Provide the standard evaluation output block with the next suggested step.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
The response removes qualitative hype terms from the microfluidics results description.
Missed
Passed
case-19 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
Prose is wordy, hedged, or dense with un-glossed jargon
Materials nomenclature, chemical formulae, or units are inconsistent
A reader from a neighboring materials subfield would stumble on the opening
The draft narrates the experiment chronologically instead of arguing the advance
You are in late polish, after the science, characterization, and figures are stable
Wiley / Adv. Mater. house-style essentials
Concision serves impact. Adv. Mater. prizes a crisp, high-signal narrative; every sentence should advance the structure → property → function argument.
Argue, don't log. Write "the doping raises carrier density, which lifts conductivity to X" — not "first we synthesized, then we measured, then we observed."
Nomenclature discipline. Define every abbreviation and material acronym on first use; keep chemical formulae, phase labels, and sample names identical across text, figures, and SI.
Units and numbers. SI units throughout, consistent significant figures, a space between number and unit, and every headline metric with its uncertainty and measurement conditions.
British or American English consistently (Wiley accepts either) — do not mix within a manuscript.
References follow the current Wiley Advanced Materials style; cite the prior art that establishes novelty and the work a reader needs to trust the characterization.
Concision moves
Wordy pattern
Tightened
"It is worth noting that the material exhibits"
"The material exhibits"
"In order to investigate"
"To probe"
"We have successfully synthesized"
"We synthesized" (drop "successfully")
"Due to the fact that"
"Because"
"novel and unprecedented" (stacked novelty claims)
one calibrated claim, tied to the design rule
Restating every figure value in prose
interpret the figure; don't transcribe it
A background paragraph before the result
one-sentence context, then the advance
Adv. Mater. abstracts and openings are notorious for hype-word inflation ("novel," "unprecedented," "significantly," "remarkable"). Delete the adjective and let the number and the mechanism carry the claim.
Readability across subfields
Adv. Mater. is read across materials chemistry, physics, energy, electronics, and biomaterials — a battery reviewer may assess a photovoltaics paper. So:
Open with materials context a non-specialist grasps before introducing subfield notation.
Gloss a specialized concept in one clause rather than assuming it.
Put the physical/chemical interpretation next to every key metric.