In Brief

An article in Advanced Healthcare Materials reports a 4D-printed hydrogel dressing that shrinks at body temperature and promotes healing in chronic diabetic wounds.

An article in Science reports an exceptionally warm and thin sweater knitted from stretchy aerogel fibres, whose core–shell structures are inspired by the fur of polar bears.

An article in Nature Communications reports 3D-printed personalized liver models that can self-heal and are as soft as real livers.

An article in Nature Communications reports a dynamic gelation strategy to fabricate strong aerogel fibres at high speed and large scale.

An article in Nano Letters reports the growth of large-size iron oxide-based 2D magnets.

An article in Advanced Materials describes a strategy to obtain transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures with controlled phases.

An article in Nature Communications presents a general method to create intermixed 2D/3D heterostructures to improve the stability of all-perovskite tandem solar cells.

An article in ACS Nano presents an environmentally friendlier way to produce clean palladium nanosheets.

An article in Nano Letters presents a strategy for the growth of single-crystal bismuthene by sandwiching it between hexagonal boron nitride and copper.

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.

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.

An article in Advanced Electronic Materials shows that thicker aluminium electrodes improve the performance of flexible MoS₂ transistors.

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.

A paper in Nature Nanotechnology reports the room-temperature generation and control of meron–antimeron pairs in an antiferromagnet by means of electrical pulses.

An article in the New Journal of Chemistry reports the synthesis of a chiral metal–organic framework that can be used to separate limonene enantiomers.