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Ensuring deaf access in science Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22
We ask how the scientific community can make academic spaces fully inclusive to our deaf colleagues. We ask how the scientific community can make academic spaces more accessible for our deaf colleagues.
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Mechanically stimulating organoids using magnetic nanoparticles Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Charlotte Allard
An article in Nature Communications presents a method to provide local mechanical stimulation to organoids using magnetic nanoparticles.
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Lightwave electronics in condensed matter Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Markus Borsch, Manuel Meierhofer, Rupert Huber, Mackillo Kira
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2D tellurium goes crystalline Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Advanced Materials reports the synthesis of high-quality single-crystalline 2D tellurium flakes and their use in high-performance field-effect transistors.
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Author Correction: Near-zero-index materials for photonics Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Nathaniel Kinsey, Clayton DeVault, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vladimir M. Shalaev
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Ferroelectrics meet transition metal dichalcogenides Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Nature Electronics reports the integration of a ferroelectric gate with a transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructure in a device that can work both as a reconfigurable logic switch and as a neuromorphic device.
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Optimizing contacts for flexible transistors Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Advanced Electronic Materials shows that thicker aluminium electrodes improve the performance of flexible MoS2 transistors.
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Cleaner transfer, better transistors Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Giulia Pacchioni
A paper in Nature Nanotechnology reports a residue-free method to transfer wafer-scale flakes of transition metal dichalcogenides and its use to fabricate high-performance field-effect transistors.
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Engineering biomaterials to tailor the microenvironment for macrophage–endothelium interactions Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Ya Guan, Luigi Racioppi, Sharon Gerecht
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Encoding autonomy in a photo- and electroactive hydrogel Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Silvia Conti
An article in Science Advances presents a hydrogel that is multi-stimuli responsive and can function autonomously.
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In situ self-assembly for cancer therapy and imaging Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Jaewon Kim, Sungkyu Lee, Yuri Kim, Minhyeok Choi, Injun Lee, Eunji Kim, Chan Gyu Yoon, Kanyi Pu, Heemin Kang, Jong Seung Kim
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Printed transistors made of 2D material-based inks Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Silvia Conti, Gabriele Calabrese, Khaled Parvez, Lorenzo Pimpolari, Francesco Pieri, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Cinzia Casiraghi, Gianluca Fiori
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3D-printed PEDOT:PSS for soft robotics Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Jinhao Li, Jie Cao, Baoyang Lu, Guoying Gu
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Tattooing soft biological matter Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Charlotte Allard
An article in Nano Letters presents a method to transfer metallic nanopatterns to soft matter such as tissues or single cells.
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Low-dimensional wide-bandgap semiconductors for UV photodetectors Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Ziqing Li, Tingting Yan, Xiaosheng Fang
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MOF–ammonia working pairs in thermal energy conversion and storage Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Shao-Fei Wu, Bing-Zhi Yuan, Li-Wei Wang
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Advancing scientific discourse in American Sign Language Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Colin P. Lualdi, Barbara Spiecker, Alicia K. Wooten, Kaitlyn Clark
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Bio-informed materials: three guiding principles for innovation informed by biology Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Devi Stuart-Fox, Leslie Ng, Mark A. Elgar, Katja Hölttä-Otto, Gerd E. Schröder-Turk, Nicolas H. Voelcker, Gregory S. Watson
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Long-term operating stability in perovskite photovoltaics Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Hongwei Zhu, Sam Teale, Muhammad Naufal Lintangpradipto, Suhas Mahesh, Bin Chen, Michael D. McGehee, Edward H. Sargent, Osman M. Bakr
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Autonomous experiments using active learning and AI Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Zhichu Ren, Zekun Ren, Zhen Zhang, Tonio Buonassisi, Ju Li
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New opportunities and old challenges in the clinical translation of nanotheranostics Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Peter J. Gawne, Miguel Ferreira, Marisa Papaluca, Jan Grimm, Paolo Decuzzi
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Interlocking 2D covalent organic frameworks Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Jet-Sing M. Lee
An article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society reports a 3D covalent organic framework made from simple 2D building blocks.
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Recycling of sodium-ion batteries Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Yun Zhao, Yuqiong Kang, John Wozny, Jian Lu, Hao Du, Chenglei Li, Tao Li, Feiyu Kang, Naser Tavajohi, Baohua Li
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Controlling translocations Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Charlotte Allard
An article in Nature Nanotechnology reports a nanopore-based single-molecule sensing method that allows control over the translocation speed of the measured molecule.
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A battery electrolyte adapts to the cold Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Ariane Vartanian
An article in Advanced Materials reports an entropy tuning strategy to design sodium-ion battery electrolytes that adapt to low temperatures, enabling rechargeable batteries that work in the extreme cold.
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Mimicking stiff tissues through chain entanglements Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Charlotte Allard
An article in Nature reports a tough hydrogel obtained through chain entanglements that can mimic stiff tissues such as articular cartilage.
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Ferroelectric memory for back-end-of-line 3D integration Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Lishu Wu
An article in Nature Nanotechnology reports ferroelectric field-effect transistors that are compatible with Si complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor back-end-of-line processes.
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Efficient infrared emission by molecular design Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Charlotte Allard
An article in Advanced Materials reports molecules designed following the A-D-A′-D-A structure that exhibit efficient emission beyond 1,100 nm.
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Design, fabrication and assembly considerations for electronic systems made of fibre devices Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Kaiwen Zeng, Xiang Shi, Chengqiang Tang, Ting Liu, Huisheng Peng
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Integrating interdisciplinary education in materials science and engineering Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Muhammad Shehryar Khan, Mary A. Wells
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Electrified water treatment: fundamentals and roles of electrode materials Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Kuichang Zuo, Sergi Garcia-Segura, Gabriel A. Cerrón-Calle, Feng-Yang Chen, Xiaoyin Tian, Xiaoxiong Wang, Xiaochuan Huang, Haotian Wang, Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Jun Lou, Menachem Elimelech, Qilin Li
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Terahertz control of many-body dynamics in quantum materials Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Chia-Jung Yang, Jingwen Li, Manfred Fiebig, Shovon Pal
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Room-temperature control of topological defects in an antiferromagnet Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Giulia Pacchioni
A paper in Nature Nanotechnology reports the room-temperature generation and control of meron–antimeron pairs in an antiferromagnet by means of electrical pulses.
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A chiral supramolecular MOF for enantiomer separation Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Giulia Pacchioni
An article in the New Journal of Chemistry reports the synthesis of a chiral metal–organic framework that can be used to separate limonene enantiomers.
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Chirality-induced spin selectivity enables real-time monitoring of a chemical reaction Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Nature Chemistry reports the use of a single-molecule junction to monitor the individual steps of a Michael reaction in real time through the chirality-induced spin selectivity effect.
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A chiral glass delivers colour-tunable ultralong room-temperature phosphorescence Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Angewandte Chemie reports the synthesis of chiral supramolecular glasses that exhibit room-temperature colour-tunable ultralong phosphorescence and circular polarized luminescence.
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Regulation of biological processes by intrinsically chiral engineered materials Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Baojin Ma, Alberto Bianco
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Soft devices in neurological surgery Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Sabrina Smith, Rosalie Ogborne, Yasin Cotur, Muhammad Adeel, Hani J. Marcus, Firat Güder
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Phase-pure two-dimensional layered perovskite thin films Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Hao Gu, Junmin Xia, Chao Liang, Yonghua Chen, Wei Huang, Guichuan Xing
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A 3D-printed alloy that can face extreme environments Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Charlotte Allard
An article in Nature reports an alloy that can be 3D printed and has improved mechanical properties at high temperatures compared with current state-of-the-art 3D-printable alloys.
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Sneaking single metal atoms into silicon Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Ariane Vartanian
An article in Nature Communications reports a solid-state epitaxy strategy to disperse single cobalt atoms in silicon, synthesizing single-atom photocatalysts that outperform any other so far for visible-light-driven syngas production.
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Photonic van der Waals integration from 2D materials to 3D nanomembranes Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Yuan Meng, Jiangang Feng, Sangmoon Han, Zhihao Xu, Wenbo Mao, Tan Zhang, Justin S. Kim, Ilpyo Roh, Yepin Zhao, Dong-Hwan Kim, Yang Yang, Jin-Wook Lee, Lan Yang, Cheng-Wei Qiu, Sang-Hoon Bae
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Mechanical nanosurgery for glioblastoma Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Charlotte Allard
An article in Science Advances reports a mechanical nanosurgery approach to treat glioblastoma.
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Have your battery and eat it too Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Advanced Materials reports an edible rechargeable battery that can power edible and digestible electronic devices for health care and food monitoring.
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The Palestinian–German Science Bridge: building bridges through research and innovation Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Ghaleb Natour, Cate Morgan
The Palestinian–German Science Bridge (PGSB) is a science diplomacy pilot project financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and implemented jointly by Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Palestinian Academy for Science and Technology. Its goal, as its founder and its project coordinator discuss in this Comment, is to develop joint research and education programmes.
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The protein corona from nanomedicine to environmental science Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Morteza Mahmoudi, Markita P. Landry, Anna Moore, Roxana Coreas
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Better catalysts in a (nut)shell Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Ariane Vartanian
An article in Nature Synthesis reports core–shell nanocrystals with tunable single-atom alloy layers, which are effective catalysts for nitrate electroreduction to ammonia.
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Benzene, coronene, circumcoronene Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Jet-Sing M. Lee
An article in Angewandte Chemie reports a solution-phase synthesis method to obtain free-standing crystalline circumcoronenes.
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How I coped with an unexpected disability during my graduate study Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Xiaolin Liu
Getting diagnosed with a physically disabling illness in graduate school can be overwhelming and isolating. This article shares a researcher’s personal journey with such an experience, offering advice and encouragement to those facing similar challenges. By confronting the disease, the author found resilience and developed appreciation for life beyond work.
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Models and mechanisms of ternary organic solar cells Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Marcella Günther, Negar Kazerouni, Dominic Blätte, Jose Dario Perea, Barry C. Thompson, Tayebeh Ameri
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Extracellular vesicle–matrix interactions Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Koushik Debnath, Kevin Las Heras, Ambar Rivera, Stephen Lenzini, Jae-Won Shin
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Engineered living materials for sustainable and resilient architecture Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Anna Sandak
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Simulations in the era of exascale computing Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Choongseok Chang, Volker L. Deringer, Kalpana S. Katti, Veronique Van Speybroeck, Christopher M. Wolverton
Exascale computers — supercomputers that can perform 1018 floating point operations per second — started coming online in 2022: in the United States, Frontier launched as the first public exascale supercomputer and Aurora is due to open soon; OceanLight and Tianhe-3 are operational in China; and JUPITER is due to launch in 2023 in Europe. Supercomputers offer unprecedented opportunities for modelling
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Materials for chiral light control Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Jeanne Crassous, Matthew J. Fuchter, Danna E. Freedman, Nicholas A. Kotov, Jooho Moon, Matthew C. Beard, Sascha Feldmann
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A materials physics perspective on structure–processing–function relations in blends of organic semiconductors Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Zhengxing Peng, Natalie Stingelin, Harald Ade, Jasper J. Michels
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A new microscope puts a twist on 2D materials Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Giulia Pacchioni
An article in Nature presents a conceptually new scanning probe microscope, called a quantum twisting microscope, which enables both momentum-resolved measurements and in situ tuning of the twist angle between 2D materials stacked on top of each other.
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Academic bullying slows the evolution of science Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Morteza Mahmoudi
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How excitons met topology Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Giulia Pacchioni
A paper in Nature reports the observation of spin-polarized excitonic topological states in the topological insulator Bi2Te3.
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Tissue not an issue Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Ariane Vartanian
An article in Nature Communications reports a solvent-free electronic material that is as soft as biological tissue like the brain.
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Li–air batteries hitting the road Nat. Rev. Mater. (IF 83.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Charlotte Allard
An article in Science demonstrates a Li–air battery with a solid-state electrolyte that achieves an energy density higher than for Li-ion batteries.