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  • Letter |

    A percolation theory of alloy passivation is developed accounting for selective dissolution and the quantity of metal dissolved during the primary passivation process, which provides a quantitative way for designing corrosion-resistant alloy compositions.

    • Yusi Xie
    • , Dorota M. Artymowicz
    • , Pietro P. Lopes
    • , Ashlee Aiello
    • , Duo Wang
    • , James L. Hart
    • , Elaf Anber
    • , Mitra L. Taheri
    • , Houlong Zhuang
    • , Roger C. Newman
    •  & Karl Sieradzki

  • Article |

    Elastomers swollen with solvent repeatedly snap back and forward as the solvent evaporates, which is harnessed to fabricate polymeric devices that jump autonomously.

    • Yongjin Kim
    • , Jay van den Berg
    •  & Alfred J. Crosby

  • Perspective |

    This perspective describes recent developments in genetically encoded protein contrast agents for non-invasive biological imaging, namely ultrasound, magnetic resonance and optoacoustic imaging modalities.

    • Arash Farhadi
    • , Felix Sigmund
    • , Gil Gregor Westmeyer
    •  & Mikhail G. Shapiro

  • News & Views |

    Deposition of a one-atom-thick layer of Ag or Cu on Au electrodes proves to be an effective strategy to tune the band alignment and conductivity of molecular junctions.

    • Thomas Frederiksen

  • Article |

    Hierarchically structured 3D materials made of distinct colloidal particles spontaneously assemble by combining the electrostatic modulation of particle interactions to form supracolloids that are organized into 3D structures on solvent drying in an entropy-driven process.

    • Mohammad-Amin Moradi
    • , E. Deniz Eren
    • , Massimiliano Chiappini
    • , Sebastian Rzadkiewicz
    • , Maurits Goudzwaard
    • , Mark M. J. van Rijt
    • , Arthur D. A. Keizer
    • , Alexander F. Routh
    • , Marjolein Dijkstra
    • , Gijsbertus de With
    • , Nico Sommerdijk
    • , Heiner Friedrich
    •  & Joseph P. Patterson

  • Article |

    Understanding electrochemical behaviour and stability at solid–solid interfaces remains challenging. Operando synchrotron X-ray computed microtomography loss reveals that reconfiguration of interfacial contact is critical to explain cell failure during solid-state battery cycling.

    • John A. Lewis
    • , Francisco Javier Quintero Cortes
    • , Yuhgene Liu
    • , John C. Miers
    • , Ankit Verma
    • , Bairav S. Vishnugopi
    • , Jared Tippens
    • , Dhruv Prakash
    • , Thomas S. Marchese
    • , Sang Yun Han
    • , Chanhee Lee
    • , Pralav P. Shetty
    • , Hyun-Wook Lee
    • , Pavel Shevchenko
    • , Francesco De Carlo
    • , Christopher Saldana
    • , Partha P. Mukherjee
    •  & Matthew T. McDowell

  • News & Views |

    An immune cell population enriched in inflamed gut tissue is shown to play a role in driving CD44+ intestinal organoid proliferation, while also regulating extracellular matrix deposition and remodelling in a synthetic hydrogel platform.

    • Bauer L. LeSavage
    •  & Sarah C. Heilshorn

  • Editorial |

    Over the last few years, there has been a shift towards the use of three-dimensional multicellular structures that more closely recapitulate native tissues and organs as tools to understand development, physiology and pathology.

  • News & Views |

    Two-dimensional superconductors have been produced via a mild intercalation-assisted, exfoliation approach, providing large-size, high-quality single layers with the ease and versatility of liquid-phase processing.

    • Christopher A. Howard

  • News & Views |

    Automated extrusion-based bioprinting has been shown to enable human kidney organoid generation with improved throughput, quality control and scale, representing an important step towards macro-scale kidney tissue engineering.

    • Benjamin D. Humphreys

  • News & Views |

    Linking π-conjugated, electron-deficient ligands into atomically precise large single crystals of conducting 2D metal–organic frameworks can allow the determination of intrinsic electrical conductivity and charge transport mechanism.

    • Renhao Dong
    •  & Xinliang Feng

  • News & Views |

    Ferroelectricity in bulk crystals of hafnium oxide demonstrates that these properties are not limited to films prepared by thin-film deposition techniques.

    • Thomas Mikolajick
    •  & Uwe Schroeder

  • Article |

    Hafnia ferroelectrics are of industrial interest owing to their compatibility with silicon-based electronics, but the ferroelectricity only exists in nanoscale films. Here, using a floating zone growth approach, ferroelectricity in bulk Y-doped hafnia is demonstrated.

    • Xianghan Xu
    • , Fei-Ting Huang
    • , Yubo Qi
    • , Sobhit Singh
    • , Karin M. Rabe
    • , Dimuthu Obeysekera
    • , Junjie Yang
    • , Ming-Wen Chu
    •  & Sang-Wook Cheong

  • Article |

    The basement membrane stiffness is shown to be a more dominant determinant than pore size in regulating cancer cell invasion, metastasis formation and patient survival. This stiffness is now known to be affected by the ratio of netrin-4 to laminin, with more netrin-4 leading to softer basement membranes.

    • Raphael Reuten
    • , Sina Zendehroud
    • , Monica Nicolau
    • , Lutz Fleischhauer
    • , Anu Laitala
    • , Stefanie Kiderlen
    • , Denise Nikodemus
    • , Lena Wullkopf
    • , Sebastian Rune Nielsen
    • , Sarah McNeilly
    • , Carina Prein
    • , Maria Rafaeva
    • , Erwin M. Schoof
    • , Benjamin Furtwängler
    • , Bo T. Porse
    • , Hyobin Kim
    • , Kyoung Jae Won
    • , Stefanie Sudhop
    • , Kamilla Westarp Zornhagen
    • , Frank Suhr
    • , Eleni Maniati
    • , Oliver M. T. Pearce
    • , Manuel Koch
    • , Lene Broeng Oddershede
    • , Tom Van Agtmael
    • , Chris D. Madsen
    • , Alejandro E. Mayorca-Guiliani
    • , Wilhelm Bloch
    • , Roland R. Netz
    • , Hauke Clausen-Schaumann
    •  & Janine T. Erler

  • Article |

    The moiré pattern that is formed between well-aligned graphene and hexagonal boron nitride can modify the properties of WSe2 (placed close by without intentional angle alignment), leading to the formation of a mini Brillouin zone and the folding of the bands in WSe2.

    • Yang Xu
    • , Connor Horn
    • , Jiacheng Zhu
    • , Yanhao Tang
    • , Liguo Ma
    • , Lizhong Li
    • , Song Liu
    • , Kenji Watanabe
    • , Takashi Taniguchi
    • , James C. Hone
    • , Jie Shan
    •  & Kin Fai Mak

  • Article |

    Metal-fluoride-based lithium-ion battery cathodes are typically classified as conversion materials because reconstructive phase transitions are presumed to occur upon lithiation. Metal fluoride lithiation is now shown to be dominated instead by diffusion-controlled displacement mechanisms.

    • Xiao Hua
    • , Alexander S. Eggeman
    • , Elizabeth Castillo-Martínez
    • , Rosa Robert
    • , Harry S. Geddes
    • , Ziheng Lu
    • , Chris J. Pickard
    • , Wei Meng
    • , Kamila M. Wiaderek
    • , Nathalie Pereira
    • , Glenn G. Amatucci
    • , Paul A. Midgley
    • , Karena W. Chapman
    • , Ullrich Steiner
    • , Andrew L. Goodwin
    •  & Clare P. Grey