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AI-empowered X-ray and neutron studies in material science
This cross-journal Collection highlights the application of AI techniques to advance X-ray and neutron scattering and spectroscopy techniques in material science. Explore the latest research including AI-enabled approaches for instrument operation, data acquisition, and data analysis.
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Synthesis and applications of multifunctional aerogels
This Collection brings together recent research on aerogels, with an emphasis on aerogels that are optimized for more than one property.
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Multiscale Engineering and Optimization of Mechanical Metamaterials for Structural Applications
This cross-journal Collection highlights the ability of multiscale, programmatic, control of a material’s topology to direct, improve, and drive structure-property relationships.
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Orbitronics and unconventional spin-orbit torque for next-generation magnetic memory and spin logic devices
This Collection highlights progress in the manipulation of magnetic states through spin-orbit interactions and orbital phenomena for robust, versatile, energy-efficient memory and logic devices.
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Smart windows for sustainable buildings
This Collection focuses on smart windows for temperature regulation.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
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Advances in Liquid Crystal Elastomers
In this cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Materials, Communications Chemistry, and Scientific Reports we welcome contributions on the latest advancements in Liquid-Crystal Elastomer (LCE) materials investigating LCE design, multi-responsive LCEs, and applications using LCE systems.
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Heterogeneous Photo- and Electrochemical C-N coupling of Inorganic Nitrogen and Simple Carbon Feedstocks
With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications, Communications Materials, and Scientific Reports invite manuscripts that highlight advances in the electrocatalytic and photocatalytic C-N coupling of inorganic nitrogen and simple carbon feedstocks.
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Engineering interface and low-dimensional superconductivity
This Collection brings together the latest advances in understanding and controlling the effect of dimensionality in unconventional superconductors.
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Advanced catalytic synthesis of green hydrogen peroxide
This Cross-journal Collection invites manuscripts that highlight advances in electrochemical, photocatalytic, and photo-electrochemical H₂O₂ generation from fundamental investigations to applied sciences.
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Lead-free perovskite solar cells
This Collection brings together the latest developments in lead-free perovskite solar cells, spanning performance enhancement, mechanistic insights, device engineering, and pathways toward commercialization.
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Innovations in Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries
