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  • Patchy colloids are colloidal particles with chemically or physically patterned surfaces that result in complex interactions arising between them. By means of numerical simulations, Romano and Sciortino show that suitably tailored patches can induce the crystallization of patchy colloids into specific crystal structures.

    • Flavio Romano
    • Francesco Sciortino
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 3, P: 1-6

  • At sufficiently low temperature, liquid water crystallizes into ices with cubic or hexagonal symmetry. A simulation study now shows that the nucleation of water into atomic stackings of cubic and hexagonal ices occurs through a metastable precursor phase with tetragonal symmetry, and that this scenario provides an explanation for the unusual pressure dependence of water’s homogeneous crystal-nucleation temperature.

    • John Russo
    • Flavio Romano
    • Hajime Tanaka
    Research
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 13, P: 733-739

  • The authors analyse tree responses to an extreme heat and drought event across South America to understand long-term climate resistance. While no more sensitive to this than previous lesser events, forests in drier climates showed the greatest impacts and thus vulnerability to climate extremes.

    • Amy C. Bennett
    • Thaiane Rodrigues de Sousa
    • Oliver L. Phillips
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 13, P: 967-974

  • The realization of a self-assembled kagome lattice from colloids with attractive hydrophobic patches offers a simple but powerful example of the bottom-up design strategy.

    • Flavio Romano
    • Francesco Sciortino
    News & Views
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 10, P: 171-173

  • Forming self-assembled soft materials with unconventional properties can be useful in many different applications. Here, Sciortino and co-workers have designed and experimentally realized a one-pot DNA hydrogel that melts both on heating and on cooling.

    • Francesca Bomboi
    • Flavio Romano
    • Francesco Sciortino
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 7, P: 1-6

  • Time of reproduction may be altered as the climate changes. For seabirds, it is shown that there has not been an adjustment in timing as the climate changes and the sea surface warms. This lack of plasticity could result in a mismatch with food resources.

    • Katharine Keogan
    • Francis Daunt
    • Sue Lewis
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 8, P: 313-318