Nature Materials, Published online: 23 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01897-xThe authors investigate the origins of chirality transfer across length scales, quantitatively demonstrating how chirality propagates from the molecular to liquid crystal level in filamentous virus systems.

Nature Materials, Published online: 23 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01907-yHere, the authors observe that in thin films of antiferroelectric PbZrO3, substrate clamping enhances the electromechanical response, with expansion purely in the out-of-plane direction, achieving 1.7% strain for 100-nm-thick films.

Nature Materials, Published online: 22 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01904-1The authors demonstrate a programmable topological photonic chip with large-scale integration of silicon photonic nanocircuits and microresonators that can be rapidly reprogrammed to implement diverse multifunctionalities.

Nature Materials, Published online: 22 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01900-5Understanding the origin of photoinduced water splitting on TiO2 is crucial to control photocatalytic surface reactions. A photoexcited-hole-transfer-driven mechanism now shows that water dissociation is strongly coupled with dynamic lattice distortion (photoexcited phonons)...

Nature Materials, Published online: 20 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01901-4Although structurally ordered intermetallic nanocrystals are promising electrocatalysts for fuel cells, their high-temperature large-scale preparation has proved challenging. A low-melting-point-metal-induced bond strength weakening strategy to promote alloy catalyst ordering...

Nature Materials, Published online: 20 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01887-zQuantum coherent control of single-photon-emitting defect spins have been reported in hexagonal boron nitride, revealing that spin coherence is mainly governed by coupling to a few proximal nuclei and can be prolonged by decoupling protocols.