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    Ferrimagnets and topological insulators offer new platforms for utilizing the spin of electrons in functional materials.

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    Research have provided soft materials with advanced functionalities such as sensing, stimuli response and locomotion.

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    Many technological processes involve the emission of compounds that can cause medical or environmental harm.

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    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.

    Image: Steven Louie | Sarah E. Biehn & Steffen Lindert, Nature Communications (2021) | Zhijun Ning, Nature (2015) | Wenshan Cai Uday K. Chettiar, Alexander V. Kildishev & Vladimir M. Shalaev, Nature Photonics (2007) | jvphoto / Alamy Stock Photo.

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    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 materials are a promising platform for realizing tunable quantum states.

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    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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    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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    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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    Zeolites are microporous materials that are of industrial importance for various catalytic applications.

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    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 was awarded to Shirakawa, MacDiarmid and Heeger for the discovery of conducting polymers.

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    DNA is now an established structural linker for nanomaterials assemblies and crystals.

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