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Five leading early career researchers in materials science

Star competitors in a highly competitive field.
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  1. Gemma Conroy
  2. Bec Crew
  3. Hepeng Jia

The five researchers profiled here are emerging as star competitors in a highly competitive field. Whether building better batteries or unlocking the brain’s mysteries, they are deploying novel materials in novel ways to address pressing problems.

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Nature 576, S26-S28 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03765-0

This article is part of Nature Index 2019 Materials science, an editorially independent supplement. Advertisers have no influence over the content.

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  • Correction 13 December 2019: This article incorrectly listed the affiliation of Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition, it implied that the calcium titanium oxide mineral perovskite converts sunlight into electrical energy, in fact, it is lead halide perovskites that can do this and are used in solar cells.The text has been updated to reflect this.

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