Materials Horizons

4D printing reconfigurable, deployable and mechanically tunable metamaterials

The synergy of host–guest nonfullerene acceptors enables 16%-efficiency polymer solar cells with increased open-circuit voltage and fill-factor

3D-printable self-healing and mechanically reinforced hydrogels with host-guest non-covalent interactions integrated into covalently linked networks.

Metal–organic frameworks-based catalysts for electrochemical oxygen evolution

3D printing of ionic conductors for high-sensitivity wearable sensors

Bio-inspired intelligent structural color materials

Stimuli-responsive polymers for sensing and actuation

Large-scale colloidal films with robust structural colors

Stress-localized durable icephobic surfaces

Progress in air-processed perovskite solar cells: from crystallization to photovoltaic performance

Algae–mussel-inspired hydrogel composite glue for underwater bonding

Enzyme-modified electrodes for biosensors and biofuel cells

Label-free manipulation via the magneto-Archimedes effect: fundamentals, methodology and applications

Ultra-programmable buckling-driven soft cellular mechanisms

Charge reversal induced colloidal hydrogel acts as a multi-stimuli responsive drug delivery platform for synergistic cancer therapy

Novel small-molecule electron donor for solution-processed ternary exciplex with 24% external quantum efficiency in organic light-emitting diode

Nano-sandwiched metal hexacyanoferrate/graphene hybrid thin films for in-plane asymmetric micro-supercapacitors with ultrahigh energy density

When defects become ‘dynamic’: halide perovskites: a new window on materials?

Photocatalytic effect of ZnO on the stability of nonfullerene acceptors and its mitigation by SnO2 for nonfullerene organic solar cells

Ice-recrystallization inhibiting polymers protect proteins against freeze-stress and enable glycerol-free cryostorage† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/c8mh00727f

Design and synthesis of two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks with four-arm cores: prediction of remarkable ambipolar charge-transport properties

Drilling by light: ice-templated photo-patterning enabled by a dynamically crosslinked hydrogel

Revisiting the charge compensation mechanisms in LiNi0.8Co0.2−yAlyO2 systems

Self-assembled nanomaterials: design principles, the nanostructural effect, and their functional mechanisms as antimicrobial or detection agents

Liquid layer generators for excellent icephobicity at extremely low temperatures

Color-tunable upconversion emission from a twisted intramolecular charge-transfer state of anthracene dimers via triplet–triplet annihilation

Negative piezoelectric effect in an organic supramolecular ferroelectric

Constructing metal–organic framework nanodots as bio-inspired artificial superoxide dismutase for alleviating endotoxemia

Bi-continuous pattern formation in thin films via solid-state interfacial dealloying studied by multimodal characterization

Phenanthro[9,10-d]triazole and imidazole derivatives: high triplet energy host materials for blue phosphorescent organic light emitting devices

4D visualisation of in situ nano-compression of Li-ion cathode materials to mimic early stage calendering

Recent progress on flexible inorganic single-crystalline functional oxide films for advanced electronics

Simultaneous printing and deformation of microsystems via two-photon lithography and holographic optical tweezers

Dispersed nano-MOFs via a stimuli-responsive biohybrid-system with enhanced photocatalytic performance

Soft stimuli-responsive grippers and machines with high load-to-weight ratios

Upconversion-chameleon-driven DNA computing: the DNA-unlocked inner-filter-effect (DU-IFE) for operating a multicolor upconversion luminescent DNA logic library and Its biosensing application

Ultrahigh hydrogen-sorbing palladium metallic-glass nanostructures

Unpacking the toolbox of two-dimensional nanostructures derived from nanosphere templates

Oligomeric odd-even effect in liquid crystals

Biomineralized tissue formation as an archetype of ideal grain growth

Superionic conduction along ordered hydroxyl networks in molecular-thin nanosheets

Functional mapping reveals mechanistic clusters for OER catalysis across (Cu–Mn–Ta–Co–Sn–Fe)Ox composition and pH space

Soft lamellar solid foams from ice-templating of self-assembled lipid hydrogels: organization drives the mechanical properties

Microsecond charge separation at heterojunctions between transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers and single-walled carbon nanotubes

Laser-driven plasmonic gratings for hiding multiple images

Plasmon-enhanced magneto-optical detection of single-molecule magnets

Red-NIR luminescence of Mo6 monolayered assembly directly anchored on Au(001)