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An article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition resurfaces metal halide perovskite nanocrystals with a reactive, liquid ligand to produce efficient and stable red perovskite light-emitting diodes.
An article in Nature Materials shows that a ‘quantum dot molecule’ — two fused and electronically coupled quantum dots — can easily switch between two distinct emission colours when induced by an electric field.
An article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society decorates type-I CdS-ZnS core–shell quantum dots with metallic domains to activate them as hydrogen evolution photocatalysts.
An article in Science uses photogenerated nitrene radicals to non-specifically bond together colloidal inorganic nanocrystals as they are 3D printed into robust functional structures.
An article in Nature Communications uses an artificial-intelligence-guided robot to accelerate the discovery and fabrication of chiroptically active films.
Electrons in strongly interacting materials can flow collectively, exhibiting hydrodynamic phenomena such as viscous flow. This Review highlights recent experimental advances, including high-quality materials growth, that have enabled these observations and surveys the spatially resolved theoretical frameworks necessary to interpret and predict these phenomena.
Organic photovoltaics show promising efficiencies and attractive properties, but their commercialization is limited by their poor operational stabilities. In this Perspective, the authors examine how bottom-up molecular design can be applied to organic semiconducting materials to achieve improved device stability.
Owing to their suitable and tunable optoelectronic properties, regulation-compliant InP-based colloidal quantum dots have attracted considerable academic and industrial interest for visible and near-infrared photonics. This Review covers the fundamentals, the design, the fabrication and the many applications of this class of materials, highlighting current challenges and future prospects.
Phosphors are important for optimizing the energy efficiency and colour quality of modern light-emitting diode light bulbs and displays. This Perspective article discusses the optical properties required for a phosphor to be viable for commercialization and the synthetic and data-driven methods that have been developed to accelerate the discovery of phosphor materials with these properties.
This Comment discusses metal–organic frameworks and their progress towards translation in a health-care setting. We explore their prospects in clinical applications, why translation seems slow, and what opportunities and obstacles await as they move towards the clinic.
Lightwave electronics could enable the control of interactions in quantum materials and provide access to the quantum phases and quantum information of condensed-matter systems. This Review discusses the fundamental concepts of lightwave electronics and outlines key advances and potential applications.
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.
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.
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.
The interactions between macrophages and endothelial cells are regulated by microenvironmental cues in the extracellular matrix. This Perspective highlights recent advances in using biomaterials as extracellular matrix to mimic macrophage–endothelium niches and to regulate cell fate in tissue homeostasis and disease progression.
