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Open AccessPredicting plastron thermodynamic stability for underwater superhydrophobicity
Non-wettable surfaces, especially those capable of passively trap** air in rough protrusions, can provide surface resilience to the detrimental effects of wetting-related phenomena. However, the development ...
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Nanoparticle proximity controls selectivity in benzaldehyde hydrogenation
Disentangling the effects of nanoparticle proximity and size on thermal catalytic performance is challenging with traditional synthetic methods. Here we adapt a modular raspberry-colloid-templating approach to...
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Long-term stability of aerophilic metallic surfaces underwater
Aerophilic surfaces immersed underwater trap films of air known as plastrons. Plastrons have typically been considered impractical for underwater engineering applications due to their metastable performance. H...
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Open AccessBreaking the photoswitch speed limit
The forthcoming generation of materials, including artificial muscles, recyclable and healable systems, photochromic heterogeneous catalysts, or tailorable supercapacitors, relies on the fundamental concept of...
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Open AccessReversibly growing crosslinked polymers with programmable sizes and properties
Growth constitutes a powerful method to post-modulate materials’ structures and functions without compromising their mechanical performance for sustainable use, but the process is irreversible. To address this...
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Open AccessOn the mechanism of marine fouling-prevention performance of oil-containing silicone elastomers
For many decades, silicone elastomers with oil incorporated have served as fouling-release coating for marine applications. In a comprehensive study involving a series of laboratory-based marine fouling assays...
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Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures
Living cilia stir, sweep and steer via swirling strokes of complex bending and twisting, paired with distinct reverse arcs1,2. Efforts to mimic such dynamics synthetically rely on multimaterial designs but face l...
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Open AccessDecoding reactive structures in dilute alloy catalysts
Rational catalyst design is crucial toward achieving more energy-efficient and sustainable catalytic processes. Understanding and modeling catalytic reaction pathways and kinetics require atomic level knowledg...
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Open AccessPatterned crystal growth and heat wave generation in hydrogels
The crystallization of metastable liquid phase change materials releases stored energy as latent heat upon nucleation and may therefore provide a triggerable means of activating downstream processes that respo...
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Open AccessEnhanced condensation heat transfer using porous silica inverse opal coatings on copper tubes
Phase-change condensation is commonplace in nature and industry. Since the 1930s, it is well understood that vapor condenses in filmwise mode on clean metallic surfaces whereas it condenses by forming discrete...
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Liquid-induced topological transformations of cellular microstructures
The fundamental topology of cellular structures—the location, number and connectivity of nodes and compartments—can profoundly affect their acoustic1–4, electrical5, chemical6,7, mechanical8–10 and optical11 prop...
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Mechanically robust lattices inspired by deep-sea glass sponges
The predominantly deep-sea hexactinellid sponges are known for their ability to construct remarkably complex skeletons from amorphous hydrated silica. The skeletal system of one such species of sponge, Euplectell...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Enhancing catalytic performance of dilute metal alloy nanomaterials
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessEnhancing catalytic performance of dilute metal alloy nanomaterials
Dilute alloys are promising materials for sustainable chemical production; however, their composition and structure affect their performance. Herein, a comprehensive study of the effects of pretreatment condit...
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Open AccessNon-equilibrium signal integration in hydrogels
Materials that perform complex chemical signal processing are ubiquitous in living systems. Their synthetic analogs would transform developments in biomedicine, catalysis, and many other areas. By drawing insp...
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Multifunctional ferrofluid-infused surfaces with reconfigurable multiscale topography
Develo** adaptive materials with geometries that change in response to external stimuli provides fundamental insights into the links between the physical forces involved and the resultant morphologies and cr...
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Open AccessDynamic air/liquid pockets for guiding microscale flow
Microscale flows of fluids are mainly guided either by solid matrices or by liquid–liquid interfaces. However, the solid matrices are plagued with persistent fouling problems, while liquid–liquid interfaces ar...
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Oleoplaning droplets on lubricated surfaces
Recently, there has been much interest in using lubricated surfaces to achieve extreme liquid repellency: a foreign droplet immiscible with the underlying lubricant layer was shown to slide off at a small tilt...
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Photothermally triggered actuation of hybrid materials as a new platform for in vitro cell manipulation
Nature Communications 8 Article: 14700 (2017); Published 13 March 2017; Updated 14 August 2017 The financial support for this Article was not properly acknowledged. The acknowledgements should include a refere...
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Erratum: Interplay between materials and microfluidics
Nature Reviews Materials 2, 17016 (2017) In the originally published version of this article, the scale bar in Figure 6e was labelled ‘nm’. This has been corrected to ‘mm’ in both the HTML and PDF versions. We...
