Editorials in 2023

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The Materials Research Society, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, has long been a central hub for the materials community.

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

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

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.

Click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry have finally been recognized with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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