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    This Collection will bring together the latest developments and understanding in lithium (and other metal ion) sulfur batteries towards new approaches, better performance, improved safety, and commercialization.

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    This cross-journal Collection between Communications Materials, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports brings together the latest advances in fundamental and applied research on 2D materials with combined multiple optoelectronic functionalities.

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    This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports brings together the latest advances in thermoelectric energy recovery, covering materials synthesis, device demonstrations, and analytical studies.

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    This collection aims to highlight the importance of disorder in framework materials, including characterisation their structures and the types of disorder present, and the role of disorder in the materials’ properties and function.

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    In this cross-journal Collection at Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Communications Engineering, Communications Materials, Communications Medicine and Scientific Reports, we welcome submissions focusing on various aspects, from mechanistic understanding to clinical translation, of smart materials for applications in bioengineering and biomedicine, such as, drug delivery, biosensing, bioimaging and tissue engineering.

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    This Collection brings together the latest developments in the burgeoning field of MXenes, including their synthesis, properties and applications.

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    This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports brings together the latest advances in using metal–organic frameworks as photocatalysts for broad applications such as, and not limited to, chemical synthesis, water splitting, and pollutant degradation.

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    An interdisciplinary approach is being taken to address the challenge of creating more efficient and intelligent computing systems that can perform diverse tasks, to design hardware with increasing complexity from single device to system architecture level, and to develop new theories and brain-inspired algorithms for future computing. In this cross-journal collection, we aim to bring together cutting-edge research of neuromorphic architecture and hardware, computing algorithms and theories, and the related innovative applications.

    Image: Featured image of Jiang et al., Nat Commun 14, 1344 (2023)
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    In this cross-journal Collection, across Nature Communications, Communications Chemistry, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports, we focus on different forms of self-assembled soft matter, from fundamental studies to applied systems. This includes, for example, coacervation and liquid-liquid phase separation, chiral systems and polymer assemblies.

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    This cross-journal Collection brings together the latest developments in electrodes, electrolytes, and battery components used in aqueous and non-aqueous sodium-based battery applications.

    Image: Zhang, J., Yan, Y., Wang, X. et al. Nat Commun 14, 3701 (2023)
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    This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports brings together the latest advances in the use of high-pressure methods to induce, manipulate, and probe novel states of matter, and to improve the fundamental understanding and technological potential of quantum materials.

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    This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Materials, Communications Physics and Scientific Reports brings together the latest research and development in perovskite-based tandem solar cells.

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