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    The mechanical properties of silk are determined by tight stacks of sheet-like peptide crystals distributed in amorphous regions. Here, the authors heat and stretch silk fibres to align these crystal into a long range ordered carbon structure and dramatically enhance the silk strength.

    • Se Youn Cho
    • , Young Soo Yun
    •  & Hyoung-Joon Jin

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    Reaction-diffusion controls the spatial formation of many natural structures but is rarely applied to organic materials. Here, the authors couple reaction-diffusion to the self-assembly of a supramolecular gelator, introducing a strategy to forming soft, free-standing objects with controlled shape and functionality.

    • Matija Lovrak
    • , Wouter E. J. Hendriksen
    •  & Jan H. van Esch

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    Crystalline phase transition can be used to detect changes in the solid state properties of materials. Here, the authors describe the mechanical response of a crystal composed of ferrocene-containing rotaxane to laser irradiation.

    • Kai-Jen Chen
    • , Ya-Ching Tsai
    •  & Masaki Horie

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    In organic photovoltaics, electron acceptors are developed to replace fullerenes, and new donors need to be designed to match these acceptors. Here, the authors show that a polymer with strong temperature dependent aggregation and intentionally reduced crystallinity matches non-fullerene acceptors.

    • Zhengke Li
    • , Kui Jiang
    •  & He Yan

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    Proton conduction is a fundamental process for fuel cell development, but three-dimensional proton conduction in crystalline porous solids is rare. Here, the authors report organic molecular cages in which the structure imposes three-dimensional proton conductivity competing with metal-organic frameworks.

    • Ming Liu
    • , Linjiang Chen
    •  & Andrew I. Cooper

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    The mobility of organic semiconductors can be tuned by modifying their chemical composition or crystalline properties. Here, the authors show that bending organic single crystals increases their field effect transistor mobility due to restrained molecular vibrations and subsequently reduced dynamic disorder.

    • Takayoshi Kubo
    • , Roger Häusermann
    •  & Jun Takeya

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    Phosphorescent materials made of purely organic components are typically less efficient than their organometallic counterparts. Here, the authors report a strategy to improve the phosphorescence efficiency of metal-free materials by reducing radiationless transitions by covalently linking into a polymer matrix.

    • Min Sang Kwon
    • , Youngchang Yu
    •  & Jinsang Kim

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    The electronic properties of organic molecules are sensitive to structural dynamics, but device control through this phenomenon has not been attained. Bakulinet al. show that the photoconductivity can be modulated by selective excitation of molecular vibrations in an organic optoelectronic device.

    • Artem A. Bakulin
    • , Robert Lovrincic
    •  & David Cahen

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    Morphological characterization of organic photovoltaic active layers is restricted by the lack of accurate chemical mapping tools. Here, the authors demonstrate an energy-filtered scanning electron microscopy technique, which enables sub-nanometre resolution imaging of an organic photovoltaic blend.

    • Robert C. Masters
    • , Andrew J. Pearson
    •  & Cornelia Rodenburg

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    Solid-state fluorescent materials show promise for potential applications in security and anti-counterfeiting technologies. Here, the authors report a heterorotaxane which has found application in security inks with highly tunable solid-state fluorescence through supramolecular encapsulation.

    • Xisen Hou
    • , Chenfeng Ke
    •  & J. Fraser Stoddart

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    Interfacial charge transport determines the performance of organic semiconductors, yet the surface influence is poorly understood. Here, Morisaki et al.observe surface relaxation and its resulting transport properties in the first monolayer of tetracene, which are dissimilar to those of the bulk.

    • Hazuki Morisaki
    • , Takashi Koretsune
    •  & Yusuke Wakabayashi

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