Cyanobacteria turn carbon dioxide into carbonate and create stable materials

Bacteria Turn Soft Matrix into a Living Building Material

Imprinted Color Patterns
Azopolymer material allows light-assisted imprinting of nanostructures

Different Chromophores in a Single Molecule Take Turns
Soft organic crystals with full‐color tunability

Multifunctional Hybrid Aerogel Films
Carbon nanotubes, aramid nanofibers, and a fluorocarbon resin give a self-cleaning, conductive, lightweight material

New Type of Glass Discovered
Entangled ring molecules turn polymers into a novel glass

More Stable High-Capacity Cathode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Improved power and cycle-life of V2O5 nanobelt cathode by prelithiation

Real-space Imaging of Growing Ice
New mechanism how ice grows in two dimensions identified

LiPF6 Prevents Dendrites in Zinc-Graphite Battery
A high‐voltage and durable Zn–graphite battery is reported, which is enabled by a LiPF6-containing hybrid electrolyte

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Directed Aging
A material's natural aging process used to create materials with unusual properties