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  • Topological defects in liquid crystals guide the self-assembly of molecular amphiphiles.

    • Francesca Serra
    • Shu Yang
    News & Views
  • Studying three Weyl semimetals of the same family — TaAs, TaP and NbP — reveals how the properties of Weyl points and Fermi arcs depend on the spin–orbit coupling and on surface conditions.

    • Xi Dai
    News & Views
  • This Review discusses the properties and applications of supramolecular biomaterials for drug delivery, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and immunology.

    • Matthew J. Webber
    • Eric A. Appel
    • Robert Langer
    Review Article
  • Conducting complex oxides with correlated electrons at room temperature offer a less explored materials platform for the high conductivity and optical transparency needed for ultrathin invisible circuitry.

    • Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier
    • James M. Rondinelli
    News & Views
  • Thin and continuous films of porous metal–organic frameworks can now be conformally deposited on various substrates using a vapour-phase synthesis approach that departs from conventional solution-based routes.

    • Mark D. Allendorf
    • Vitalie Stavila
    News & Views
  • Large single-crystalline graphene monolayers have been synthesized on a Cu–Ni alloy using a local precursor feeding method with an enhanced growth rate. The fast production of wafer-scale single crystals brings graphene closer to real applications.

    • Li Lin
    • Zhongfan Liu
    News & Views
  • An implantable, flexible mesh with embedded electrodes for sensing neural activity in vivo improves brain-sampling efficiency and reduces the amount of cortical tissue injured.

    • Tarun Saxena
    • Ravi V. Bellamkonda
    News & Views
  • Self-assembling covalent organic frameworks can boost electrode performance for the catalytic reduction of carbon dioxide.

    • Idan Hod
    • Omar K. Farha
    • Joseph T. Hupp
    News & Views
  • The propagation of plasmons in graphene–hexagonal boron nitride moiré patterns is experimentally studied for the first time via infrared scattering near-field optical spectroscopy.

    • Marco Polini
    • Frank H. L. Koppens
    News & Views
  • This Review discusses the physics of electrical contacts to 2D semiconductors and the strategies adopted to improve charge injection in these materials. The requirements for efficient spin injection in spintronic devices are also presented.

    • Adrien Allain
    • Jiahao Kang
    • Andras Kis
    Review Article
  • The walls of microtubules can self-repair bending-induced damage.

    • Bela M. Mulder
    • Marcel E. Janson
    News & Views
  • Short-lived topological defects in active liquid crystals can exhibit long-range, long-lived orientational order.

    • Denis Bartolo
    News & Views
  • An additive manufacturing technique makes heterogeneous composites with tunable local microstructure and composition.

    • John W. C. Dunlop
    • Peter Fratzl
    News & Views
  • Intrinsically disordered protein polymers can be designed to encode tunable lower or upper critical solution temperatures in physiological solutions.

    • Alex S. Holehouse
    • Rohit V. Pappu
    News & Views