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An article in Nature Chemistry reports a library of block polymers that can form stabilizing membranes around all kinds of synthetic coacervates and biomolecular condensates.

An article in Nature Communications reports an aqueous processing solution, based on the kosmotropic effect, that enables the sustainable and cost-effective manufacturing of lithium-ion battery cathodes.

An article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society describes a simple mechanochemical route to imine-based metal–organic frameworks, which have long been difficult to synthesize.

An article in Nature Communications optimizes a sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting system across scales — material, device design and operation.

An article in Nature Communications reports a degradable polymer-based diabetic wound dressing that addresses both inflammation and tissue regeneration to promote healing.

An article in Communications Materials introduces a modular assembly approach to scale up pyrolytic carbon lattice structures while retaining their strength and ductility.

An article in Nature Communications uses mechanophores to visualize shockwaves, induced by high-velocity impacts, in a block copolymer.

An article in Nature Communications reports 3D-printed personalized liver models that can self-heal and are as soft as real livers.

An article in Nature Communications reports a dynamic gelation strategy to fabricate strong aerogel fibres at high speed and large scale.

An article in Advanced Functional Materials uses a photothermal bridge to improve the desorption performance of a metal–organic framework sorbent.

An article in Chemical Communications clarifies an important role of hydrogen-bonding sites in metal–organic framework sorbents.

An article in Advanced Materials designs a sorbent-based cooling system that can dissipate the heat produced by heavy-load power equipment.

An article in Nature Materials shows that a ‘quantum dot molecule’ — two fused and electronically coupled quantum dots — can easily switch between two distinct emission colours when induced by an electric field.

An article in Nature Chemistry discovers that the two light-controlled isomers of azobenzene also have very different rupture forces.

An article in Nature Communications uses an artificial-intelligence-guided robot to accelerate the discovery and fabrication of chiroptically active films.

An article in Nature Communications reports a solid-state epitaxy strategy to disperse single cobalt atoms in silicon, synthesizing single-atom photocatalysts that outperform any other so far for visible-light-driven syngas production.

An article in Matter uses rice grains as scaffolds for cultivated beef cells to produce an innovative beef-infused rice.

An article in Advanced Healthcare Materials reports a 4D-printed hydrogel dressing that shrinks at body temperature and promotes healing in chronic diabetic wounds.

An article in Science reports an exceptionally warm and thin sweater knitted from stretchy aerogel fibres, whose core–shell structures are inspired by the fur of polar bears.

An article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition resurfaces metal halide perovskite nanocrystals with a reactive, liquid ligand to produce efficient and stable red perovskite light-emitting diodes.

An article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society decorates type-I CdS-ZnS core–shell quantum dots with metallic domains to activate them as hydrogen evolution photocatalysts.

An article in Science uses photogenerated nitrene radicals to non-specifically bond together colloidal inorganic nanocrystals as they are 3D printed into robust functional structures.

An article in Nature Chemistry uses the knowledge gathered in the Cambridge Structural Database to build a machine-learning model that predicts the oxidation states of metal–organic frameworks.

An article in Advanced Materials reports an entropy tuning strategy to design sodium-ion battery electrolytes that adapt to low temperatures, enabling rechargeable batteries that work in the extreme cold.

An article in ACS Nano uses a nonspecific crosslinker to covalently stabilize a variety of 2D and 3D nanocrystal superlattices.

An article in npj Computational Materials reports a machine learning-based solver that predicts local stresses in mechanically heterogeneous solids.

An article in Nature Materials describes the bioprinting of hydrogel force sensors directly into the tissues of live embryos to quantify the mechanical forces driving morphogenesis.

An article in Nature Communications describes a straightforward strategy to synthesize chemically recyclable polytrithiocarbonates with diverse structures.

An article in Nature describes regular, modular protein building blocks that can be combined — following a standard blueprint — into a variety of architectures.

An article in Nature Communications maps the adsorption of molecules at different sites on a gold nanoparticle, uncovering varying degrees of positive and negative adsorption cooperativity.

An article in Nature Communications reports a solvent-free electronic material that is as soft as biological tissue like the brain.

An article in Nature Synthesis reports core–shell nanocrystals with tunable single-atom alloy layers, which are effective catalysts for nitrate electroreduction to ammonia.

An article in Nature Synthesis uses dynamic covalent chemistry to synthesize crystalline graphyne on a large scale.

An article in Nature Communications reports a 3D nanoprinting platform that combines a microfluidic atomic force microscope to precisely deposit tiny amounts of polymer ink and surface-initiated crosslinking chemistry to solidify the ink immediately upon delivery.

An article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society reports porous photocatalytic nanowires that extract record amounts of uranium from seawater, a step closer to tapping the ocean’s vast uranium reserves for nuclear energy.

An article in Nature Chemistry reports a tip-manipulated approach to build custom nanoarchitectures on a surface by activating, orienting and coupling together individual building blocks.

An article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition finds that a frozen environment can accelerate the degradation of microplastics.

The 2021 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting was a hybrid event for the first time, featuring both an in-person meeting in Boston and a virtual meeting held separately. Nature Reviews Materials speaks to Gopal Rao, Chief Editor of Technical Content for MRS and Editor of MRS Bulletin, to find out what pandemic-era conference planning is like.

An article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society reports a family of metal–organic macrocycles that can be envisioned as discrete versions of electrically conductive metal–organic frameworks.

An article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society reports azobenzene crystals that roll continuously under visible light, thanks to crystal packing effects that shift azobenzene’s light-responsive window.

An article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition discovers a pair of colloidal semiconductor magic-size clusters that can isomerize through either a direct and intra-cluster pathway or an indirect and inter-cluster pathway.

An article in Advanced Functional Materials reports a fully edible, strong and plastic-free straw based on bacterial cellulose.

An article in Advanced Materials reports a computational and experimental approach to better understand solid-state ceramic reactions and design more efficient syntheses.