What would it take to deploy CO2 electrolysis into the Gigatonne conversion scale, from a materials view?Congrats Blanca Belsa Carné et al for this tour-de-force 🎉! Lu Xia Viktoria, Bárbara, Adrián, Lara, ICFO tinyurl.com/2a9e4k4n NatRevMaterials Becas Fundación "la Caixa"

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This Perspective by Gang Wu@Buffalo & Piotr Zelenay discusses strategies to address activity-stability trade-offs in platinum-free catalysts by precisely controlling nitrogen-coordinated transition metals in carbon: go.nature.com/46ChxW8

Triplet states are essential for efficient energy transfer at organic-inorganic interfaces. This Review by Dayong Jin, Xiaogang Liu & colleagues examines their properties, control strategies, and impact on material performance: go.nature.com/3ysm6FG

Our review on Nonlinear and Quantum Photonics based on high-confinement platforms is out in NatRevMaterials, with Aseema Mohanty Gaeta Quantum and Nonlinear Photonics Lab Michal Lipson. Hope this is useful both to early-career scientists and experienced researchers! Thanks Giulia Pacchioni nature.com/articles/s4157…

The life cycle of a plastic product is defined by increasing—and largely unknown⚠️—chemical complexity. This timely Perspective by Dr. Kara Lavender Law & colleagues guides #plastics manufacturers to assess their use of additives and collaborate across sectors: go.nature.com/46M7qOg

Dielectric breakdown is a major reliability issue in electronic devices: this Review by Andrea Padovani, Alexander Shluger & collaborators discusses DB in different insulating materials, with a focus on phenomenological models and computational approaches: rdcu.be/dRlIR

Book review: in her newly published memoir "Human Rights and Peace, a Personal Odyssey" Zafra Lerman, an Israeli-American chemist and science diplomat who, among many other things, created the Malta Conference foundation, recounts her remarkable life: rdcu.be/dRLcj

Additives are essential to the diverse use of plastics, yet pose risks to health and recycling quality. A Perspective in NatRevMaterials calls for collaboration across supply chains, disclosure of composition and risks, and improved additive design. 🔒 go.nature.com/4dymkui

Non-collinear antiferromagnets with chiral spin textures exhibit unexpected charge & spin transport effects with potential applications in spintronics, from magnetic RAMs to racetrack memories and beyond: Review by Stuart Parkin & colleagues: rdcu.be/dSCHf

Read this Perspective proposing nine performance metrics for the assessment of the functionality and programmability of shape-morphing devices across material, device and system levels, by Jue Wang & Alex Chortos: rdcu.be/dSNrp