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    Constructing moiré patterns and chirality in 2D materials offers large freedom for manipulating properties but has difficulties in synthesis.

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    Reproducibility in the materials sciences is of increasing interest.

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    Modern electronics greatly shapes today’s human life, but also brings challenges for a sustainable future. Along the way, materials and technology innovations play an important role. In this Focus issue, we overview current challenges and opportunities brought by materials and technology innovations for sustainable electronics.

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    The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.

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    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter“.

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    Ferroelectrics have already impacted scientific research and commercial applications over the century since their discovery.

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    Complex element combinations increase the variety of microstructural features and facilitate property manipulation for materials design.

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    Under extreme pressure, matter can exhibit novel or counter-intuitive phenomena such as superconductivity at unusually high-temperature, unexpected chemical stoichiometries and reaction kinetics, or new material phases.

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    The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

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    As Nature Materials turns 20 we look back at how material science and the scientific publishing landscape have evolved, and ask experts to provide their views on how to address grand societal challenges.

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    Advances in synthetic biology and biomaterials design are enabling the creation of living materials with tailored functionalities.

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