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  • Comment |

    The restoration of fire-damaged historical monuments entails a wide range of scientific questions. Taking as a starting point the case of Notre-Dame de Paris, this Comment defines the materials science challenges of post-fire restoration, and also briefly outlines the issues of structural integrity, fire safety and preservation ethics.

    • Ylenia Praticò
    • , John Ochsendorf
    •  & Robert J. Flatt

  • News & Views |

    The integration of silicon-based waveguides with barium titanate thin films enables the realization of efficient electro-optic switches and modulators operating at cryogenic temperatures, offering promising opportunities for quantum technologies.

    • Goran Z. Mashanovich

  • News & Views |

    Organic neuromorphic devices are now able to take direct input from cellular neurotransmitter release.

    • Tobias Cramer

  • Review Article |

    This Review provides an overview of the advances in materials and device design that are enabling the realization of implantable electronic interfaces for long-term, multiplexed recording and stimulation of the brain and nervous system.

    • Enming Song
    • , Jinghua Li
    •  & John A. Rogers

  • Perspective |

    The carbon dioxide reduction reaction can enable renewable energy storage by producing valuable products such as ethylene. This Perspective provides an overview of strategies that use molecular enhancement of heterogeneous catalysts to improve activity, efficiency and selectivity.

    • Dae-Hyun Nam
    • , Phil De Luna
    •  & Edward H. Sargent

  • News & Views |

    The presence of one-dimensional MEL intergrowths in two-dimensional MDI zeolite nanosheets, inferred from experimental and theoretical analysis, allows for world-beating xylene separation performance.

    • Jürgen Caro
    •  & Jörg Kärger

  • News & Views |

    Using organic solvent shortens formation time of membrane nanosheets comprising proteins and copolymers, while tuning protein structure tailors the pore geometry, resulting in superior water permeation.

    • Andrew G. Livingston
    •  & Zhiwei Jiang

  • News & Views |

    A three-dimensional printing approach based on the photopolymerization-induced phase separation of resins is used to fabricate complex glass structures with distinct chemical composition and porosity.

    • Dorothea Helmer
    •  & Bastian E. Rapp

  • Article |

    Immobilization of radionuclides in glass or ceramic forms in stainless steel in deep geological repositories is planned in the US for disposal of nuclear waste. Under simulated repository conditions, corrosion could be significantly accelerated at the interfaces of different barrier materials.

    • Xiaolei Guo
    • , Stephane Gin
    •  & Gerald S. Frankel

  • Article |

    Protein channels are highly selective, but application in membranes is limited due to low protein content. Here, protein channels are embedded into block copolymers to form nanosheets using rapid solvent casting, with better water permeability and similar molecular exclusions relative to other membrane systems.

    • Yu-Ming Tu
    • , Woochul Song
    •  & Manish Kumar

  • News & Views |

    A transparent, high-permittivity elastomeric dielectric material shows potential for light-emitting soft robots and stretchable optoelectronics that can self-heal.

    • Jonathan Rossiter

  • Article |

    Biocompatible and degradable silk materials with programmable mechanical properties can be directly obtained from regenerated amorphous silk using thermal moulding.

    • Chengchen Guo
    • , Chunmei Li
    •  & David L. Kaplan

  • News & Views |

    A strain-tuning technique has been developed to interface multiple quantum dots within the same photonic chip.

    • Rinaldo Trotta

  • Article |

    Geometric analysis and constrained optimization algorithms allow for the design of kirigami patterns that can be deployed into any two- or three-dimensional shape.

    • Gary P. T. Choi
    • , Levi H. Dudte
    •  & L. Mahadevan

  • Article |

    A model is proposed to predict the corrosion rate of steels embedded in different porous media including concrete, wood and soil. It relies on the moisture state and the pore structure, which affect the electrochemical dissolution kinetics.

    • Matteo Stefanoni
    • , Ueli M. Angst
    •  & Bernhard Elsener

  • Letter |

    Rewritable surface charge density gradients enable the direct, high-speed and long-distance transport of droplets on distinct surfaces without the need of additional energy input.

    • Qiangqiang Sun
    • , Dehui Wang
    •  & Xu Deng

  • Comment |

    3D printing is now widely used in aerospace, healthcare, energy, automotive and other industries. Metal printing, in particular, is the fastest growing sector, yet its development presents scientific, technological and economic challenges that must be understood and addressed.

    • T. DebRoy
    • , T. Mukherjee
    •  & W. Zhang

  • Article |

    Mobile micromachines with advanced configurations and functions self-assembled through designed dielectrophoretic interactions between structural and motor units.

    • Yunus Alapan
    • , Berk Yigit
    •  & Metin Sitti

  • Comment |

    Electronic and photonic devices based on graphene have unique properties, leading to outstanding performance figures of merit. Mastering the integration of this unconventional material into an established semiconductor fabrication line represents a critical step towards commercialization.

    • Daniel Neumaier
    • , Stephan Pindl
    •  & Max C. Lemme

  • Editorial |

    Machine learning is swiftly infiltrating many areas within the healthcare industry, from diagnosis and prognosis to drug development and epidemiology, with significant potential to transform the medical landscape.

  • Article |

    The structural foundation of self-assembled peptide materials is typically the β-sheet. Here the authors describe peptides made of three natural amino acids that self-assemble into helical-like superstructures with enhanced mechanical rigidity.

    • Santu Bera
    • , Sudipta Mondal
    •  & Ehud Gazit

  • Review Article |

    Memristive devices show great potential as artificial synapses and neurons, yet brain-inspired computing can be realized only by integrating a large number of these devices into reliable arrays. This Review discusses the challenges in the integration and use in computation of large-scale memristive neural networks.

    • Qiangfei Xia
    •  & J. Joshua Yang

  • Article |

    The extracellular matrix surrounding cells plays a significant role in their behaviour. The spreading, mechanosensing and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells are shown to be dependent on the early deposition and remodelling of local nascent proteins within degradable and viscoelastic hydrogels.

    • Claudia Loebel
    • , Robert L. Mauck
    •  & Jason A. Burdick

  • Article |

    Organic radical polymers are currently being considered as active materials for fast-charging battery electrodes but their transport and charge storage characteristics are not well understood. A quantitative view of in situ ion transport and doping in these systems during the redox process is now provided.

    • Shaoyang Wang
    • , Fei Li
    •  & Jodie L. Lutkenhaus

  • News & Views |

    Researchers have developed a graphene plasmonics detector that is suitable for fast-response and high-resolution detection of infrared photons at room temperature.

    • Zhe Fei

  • News & Views |

    A graphite and hexagonal boron nitride heterojunction enables superlubric sliding, almost independent of alignment orientation, in micrometre-sized contacts under ‘real-life’ working conditions.

    • J. G. Vilhena
    •  & Rubén Pérez

  • Article |

    The gastrointestinal tract is a therapeutic target for type-2 diabetes. An orally deliverable sucralfate-based material is shown to form a physical coating in the gut, capable of limiting glucose uptake and also administering drugs to the gut lining.

    • Yuhan Lee
    • , Tara E. Deelman
    •  & Jeffrey M. Karp

  • Comment |

    Solar cells based on metal halide perovskites continue to approach their theoretical performance limits thanks to worldwide research efforts. Mastering the materials properties and addressing stability may allow this technology to bring profound transformations to the electric power generation industry.

    • Henry J. Snaith

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