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Inverse design for scalable photonic systems
Inverse design for scalable photonic systems
Over the past two decades, photonic inverse design has emerged as a powerful approach to implement photonic devices with i...
Transport of polaritons in hyperbolic media
Transport of polaritons in hyperbolic media
Hyperbolic polaritons — hybrid light–matter quasiparticles emerging in extremely anisotropic media — hav...
Large-scale, mechanically robust bioinspired confined MXene nanocomposites
Large-scale, mechanically robust bioinspired confined MXene nanocomposites
Transition metal carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides (MXenes) have attracted considerable attention since they were first...
Reflections on the past decade of neuromorphic computing
Artificial intelligence has outgrown the computers built to run it. Advances of the past decade have made clear that catch...
Kinetic pathways for joining metallurgically incompatible metals
Kinetic pathways for joining metallurgically incompatible metals
Joining dissimilar materials has long been limited by brittle intermetallics and mismatched mechanical properties, thereby...
Tellurium-free thermoelectric materials and devices for low-temperature energy harvesting
Tellurium-free thermoelectric materials and devices for low-temperature energy harvesting
Harvesting low-temperature waste heat (below 573 K), which constitutes around 89% of the total waste heat, remains a...
A closed-loop automated lab boosts perovskite performance
A closed-loop automated lab boosts perovskite performance
A paper in Nature demonstrates a fully integrated, closed-loop system that links machine learning-guided molecular design ...
A probe for the origin of superconductivity
A probe for the origin of superconductivity
An article in Physical Review Letters describes how the momentum dependence of the superconducting pairing potential can b...
Large-scale single MoS2 crystals unlocked
Large-scale single MoS2 crystals unlocked
An article in Nature Materials reports an adaptation of the Czochralski method that enables the growth of centimetre-scale...
Modular lattice structures
Modular lattice structures
An article in Communications Materials introduces a modular assembly approach to scale up pyrolytic carbon lattice structu...
Make metal–organic frameworks safe and sustainable by design for industrial translation
Make metal–organic frameworks safe and sustainable by design for industrial translation
Metal–organic frameworks hold immense application potential, but their stability and environmental safety remain bar...
Design of oxide nanoparticles for biomedical applications
Design of oxide nanoparticles for biomedical applications
Oxide nanoparticles have garnered significant attention in biomedical research owing to the numerous available synthetic a...
Efficient catalyst for alkaline water
Efficient catalyst for alkaline water
An article in Nature Communications presents a yttrium-doped NiMo/MoO2 catalyst that enhances water dissociation and optim...
Large language models for reticular chemistry
Large language models for reticular chemistry
Reticular chemistry is the science of connecting molecular building units into crystalline extended structures such as met...
A global policy framework for the circular use of forest biomass as building materials
A global policy framework for the circular use of forest biomass as building materials
Wooden bioresources are key materials for the transition to a circular bioeconomy, yet widespread adoption, for example in...
Organic solid-state photochromism using porous scaffolds
Organic solid-state photochromism using porous scaffolds
When exposed to light, organic photochromic molecules undergo a fast and reversible change in their electronic structure, ...
Rethinking biochar: black gold or not?
Rethinking biochar: black gold or not?
Biochar is proposed as a promising solution for sustainable development, but proper risk management and careful evaluation...
Stable 2D magnets
An article in Nano Letters reports the growth of large-size iron oxide-based 2D magnets.
Phase engineering of MoS2 heterostructures
An article in Advanced Materials describes a strategy to obtain transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures with cont...
3D to 2D perovskite conversion
An article in Nature Communications presents a general method to create intermixed 2D/3D heterostructures to improve the s...
Clean palladium nanosheets
An article in ACS Nano presents an environmentally friendlier way to produce clean palladium nanosheets.
Meet the spinaron
Meet the spinaron
An article in Nature Physics presents experimental evidence for spinaronic states in Co atoms on a Cu(111) surface.
Human and environmental safety of carbon nanotubes across their life cycle
Human and environmental safety of carbon nanotubes across their life cycle
Carbon nanotubes are a large family of carbon-based hollow cylindrical structures with unique physicochemical properties t...
Propelling the widespread adoption of large-scale 3D printing
Propelling the widespread adoption of large-scale 3D printing
3D printing can be used to automate the manufacturing of building elements for large-scale structures such as skyscrapers,...
Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding
Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding
Higher education and research institutions are critical to the well-being and success of societies, meaning their financia...
Ligands make a difference in perovskite light-emitting diodes
An article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition resurfaces metal halide perovskite nanocrystals with a reactive, liq...
Toggling colours in a quantum dot molecule
An article in Nature Materials shows that a ‘quantum dot molecule’ — two fused and electronically couple...
A bit of metal activates a semiconductor photocatalyst
An article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society decorates type-I CdS-ZnS core–shell quantum dots with met...
Using radicals to suture 3D-printed inorganic nanocrystals
An article in Science uses photogenerated nitrene radicals to non-specifically bond together colloidal inorganic nanocryst...
A robotic chemist prowls for chiroptical materials
An article in Nature Communications uses an artificial-intelligence-guided robot to accelerate the discovery and fabricati...
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