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  • An article in Advanced Functional Materials uses a photothermal bridge to improve the desorption performance of a metal–organic framework sorbent.

    • Ariane Vartanian
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  • An article in Chemical Communications clarifies an important role of hydrogen-bonding sites in metal–organic framework sorbents.

    • Ariane Vartanian
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  • An article in Advanced Materials designs a sorbent-based cooling system that can dissipate the heat produced by heavy-load power equipment.

    • Ariane Vartanian
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  • An article in Nature Communications optimizes a sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting system across scales — material, device design and operation.

    • Ariane Vartanian
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  • An article in Nature Communications reports the identification of two non-volatile spin textures in twisted double-bilayer CrI3, which can be switched by a magnetic field and read out via electrical measurements.

    • Giulia Pacchioni
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  • A paper in the Journal of Applied Physics reports a way to apply strain to two-dimensional devices while measuring simultaneously their electrical and optical properties.

    • Giulia Pacchioni
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  • An article in Advanced Materials shows that the moiré superlattice in a ferromagnetic heterostructure comprising a twisted WS2/WS2 bilayer enhances the spin–orbit torque efficiency and increases its gate tunability.

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

    • Ariane Vartanian
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  • 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.

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

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

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

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

    • Charlotte Allard
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  • 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.

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

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

    • Charlotte Allard
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  • 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.

    • Ariane Vartanian
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  • 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.

    • Ariane Vartanian
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