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Sustainable aviation fuels
Mass commercial air transport has revolutioned business and leisure, but the increased usage of fossil fuels is not sustainable.
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Low-dimensional phase engineering
Phase engineering in low-dimensional materials enables tailoring of their properties but demands precise and efficient control.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design” and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.
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Constructing 2D moiré and chiral materials
Constructing moiré patterns and chirality in 2D materials offers large freedom for manipulating properties but has difficulties in synthesis.
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Reproducibility
Reproducibility in the materials sciences is of increasing interest.
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Sustainable electronics
Modern electronics greatly shapes today’s human life, but also brings challenges for a sustainable future. Along the way, materials and technology innovations play an important role. In this Focus issue, we overview current challenges and opportunities brought by materials and technology innovations for sustainable electronics.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter“.
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New directions in ferroelectrics
Ferroelectrics have already impacted scientific research and commercial applications over the century since their discovery.
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Complex element coupling
Complex element combinations increase the variety of microstructural features and facilitate property manipulation for materials design.
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Science at Extreme Pressures
Under extreme pressure, matter can exhibit novel or counter-intuitive phenomena such as superconductivity at unusually high-temperature, unexpected chemical stoichiometries and reaction kinetics, or new material phases.
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