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Soft materials for robotics
Research have provided soft materials with advanced functionalities such as sensing, stimuli response and locomotion.
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Emissions control and capture
Many technological processes involve the emission of compounds that can cause medical or environmental harm.
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Computational Materials Design
Computation plays a vital role in the analysis of the materials that are needed to address current complex needs such as energy, information technology, or operations under extreme conditions.
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Multicellular constructs
Multicellular constructs such as organoids and embryoids have been widely utilized as model systems to understand development, physiology and pathology.
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2D Quantum Materials
2D materials are a promising platform for realizing tunable quantum states.
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Mechanics of cells and tissues
This collection of primary research articles, reviews and protocols focuses on an emerging topic of mechanobiology, highlighting the broad involvement of mechanical forces in different biological contexts, their roles in development, physiology and disease, and how these forces are sensed and transduced to produce biologically-relevant responses. The collection also showcases new technical approaches to modulate mechanobiology, which in the future could be used to control cell fate and behaviour for therapeutic benefits.
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Harnessing the power of computational science
The use and development of sophisticated computing capabilities to analyse and solve real-world, challenging problems has undoubtedly revolutionized the way researchers do science.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their pioneering work in gene-editing.
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Zeolite catalysts
Zeolites are microporous materials that are of industrial importance for various catalytic applications.
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Conducting polymers
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 was awarded to Shirakawa, MacDiarmid and Heeger for the discovery of conducting polymers.
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DNA-guided assemblies
DNA is now an established structural linker for nanomaterials assemblies and crystals.
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