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  • Misalignment-induced moiré patterns and chirality in two-dimensional materials offer vast opportunities for manipulating their properties, but they face challenges in synthesis and structural control.

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  • The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry acknowledged work that paved the way to a nanotechnology worthy of the name.

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  • With a continuing increase in scientific studies, there is a growing awareness of the need to reproduce scientific results.

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  • The fundamental discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 were awarded with this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine.

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  • Integrated design assisted by materials and technology innovations can help a transition from traditional to sustainable electronics.

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  • Overcoming the intrinsic brittleness of inorganic glasses and ceramics improves structural reliability under operation, while also increasing their competitiveness for flexible devices.

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  • Peer review has long been established as the gold standard for scientific publishing, but changes in the publishing ecosystem should not influence author response to the views of their peers.

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  • In multi-principal-element alloys the local chemical order is of increasing research interest for understanding their structures and correlation with properties, requiring systematic exploration with definitive and quantitative characterizations.

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  • After a decade of intense activity, the Graphene Flagship has helped to establish an incipient European graphene industry, yet mainstream commercialization of graphene products continues to be hindered by limited market readiness and industry acceptance.

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  • Ferroelectrics have already impacted scientific research and commercial applications, but they still show plenty of potential to surprise.

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  • Increasing chemical complexity expands the design space and drives the coupling of materials science and computational techniques.

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  • A measure of the impact of scientific papers indicates that they are on average becoming less disruptive — this could reflect changes in the scientific community.

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  • The hunt for a quantum spin liquid continues with new materials and more refined methods leading the way.

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  • Experiments with entangled photons, which enabled the pioneering of quantum information science, have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.

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  • A change in UK government must lead to changes in science policy.

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  • Steel underpins modern society but its production generates intensive carbon dioxide emissions. For its sustainable development, the steel industry requires technology and product upgrades, driven by innovation and cooperation.

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  • As Nature Materials turns 20 we look back at how materials science has evolved and consider future directions.

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  • French science faces an uncertain future as the new government struggles with a fractured parliament.

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