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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...
Charge transport and hydrodynamics in materials
Charge transport and hydrodynamics in materials
As high-quality single-crystal materials used in electronic devices approach the microscale and nanoscale, charge-transpor...
Methylammonium-free wide-bandgap metal halide perovskites for tandem photovoltaics
Methylammonium-free wide-bandgap metal halide perovskites for tandem photovoltaics
Over the past decade, the performance of solar cells based on metal halide perovskite semiconductors has skyrocketed, now ...
Vapour-phase deposition of two-dimensional layered chalcogenides
Vapour-phase deposition of two-dimensional layered chalcogenides
Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials are attracting a lot of attention because of unique physicochemical properties that...
InP colloidal quantum dots for visible and near-infrared photonics
InP colloidal quantum dots for visible and near-infrared photonics
Owing to their tunable band gap, high absorption coefficient, narrow emission linewidths and unrestricted composition, InP...
Cleaning up oil spills
Cleaning up oil spills
An article in Nature Sustainability presents a gel-coated mesh filter that can efficiently recover viscous oil from contam...
Clinical translation of metal–organic frameworks
Clinical translation of metal–organic frameworks
This Comment discusses metal–organic frameworks and their progress towards translation in a health-care setting. We ...
A guide to comprehensive phosphor discovery for solid-state lighting
A guide to comprehensive phosphor discovery for solid-state lighting
Inorganic phosphors have been crucial in enabling energy-efficient, phosphor-converted light-emitting diode (LED) lighting...
Ensuring deaf access in science
We ask how the scientific community can make academic spaces fully inclusive to our deaf colleagues. We ask how the scient...