Nature Materials contents: April 2016 Volume 15 Number 4 pp 365-484

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TABLE OF CONTENTS April 2016 Volume 15, Issue 4 Editorial Commentary Interview News and Views Review Letters Articles Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement September 12-14, 2016, University of Surrey, England (International conference on Advanced Energy Materials, Hydrogen Energy and Nanomaterials) July 25-27, 2016, University of Aveiro, Portugal (International conference on Advanced Nanomaterials, Graphene Technology and Spintronics Materials)   Advertisement All content now free to access including archives! Nature Communications is an open access journal that publishes high-quality research from all areas of the natural sciences. Papers published by the journal represent important advances of significance to specialists within each subject area including chemistry. Visit the website to explore ALL the content available within your field.   Advertisement NPG Asia Materials is proud to present a web focus on Magnetic materials for spintronic devices. This web focus features a selection of articles that are related to magnetic materials for potential application in magnetoelectronic and spintronic devices. Such materials include artificial multiferroics, half metallic Heusler alloys, topological insulators, Dirac semimetals, manganites, nanofibers, and spin wave materials, as well as molecular interfaces.  Access the Web Focus today!    Editorial Top Boosting materials modelling   p365 doi:10.1038/nmat4619 Basic hurdles in materials modelling, such as access to experimental raw data, thwart fast progress. Governmental and grass-roots initiatives have stepped up to help overcome current limitations. Commentary Top Nucleic acid memory   pp366 - 370 Victor Zhirnov, Reza M. Zadegan, Gurtej S. Sandhu, George M. Church and William L. Hughes doi:10.1038/nmat4594 Nucleic acid memory has a retention time far exceeding electronic memory. As an alternative storage media, DNA surpasses the information density and energy of operation offered by flash memory. Interview Top Materials modelling in London   pp371 - 372 Interview with Angelos Michaelides doi:10.1038/nmat4614 Angelos Michaelides, Professor in Theoretical Chemistry at University College London (UCL) and co-director of the Thomas Young Centre (TYC), explains to Nature Materials the challenges in materials modelling and the objectives of the TYC. News and Views Top Mechanical metamaterials: Smaller and stronger   pp373 - 374 Xiaoyan Li and Huajian Gao doi:10.1038/nmat4591 Fabrication of an ultra-strong glassy carbon nanolattice with a strut diameter of around 200 nm could stimulate the realization of advanced nanoscale architected materials. See also: Article by Bauer et al. Organic materials: Echoes from diffusion   pp374 - 376 Florian Klappenberger doi:10.1038/nmat4602 Coherent scattering of helium wave packets captures molecular motion with nanometre and picosecond resolution. See also: Letter by Rotter et al. Material witness: From pillar to post   p376 Philip Ball doi:10.1038/nmat4616 Chiral nanocomposites: Hand-twisting light   pp377 - 378 Daeyeon Lee and Sang Eon Han doi:10.1038/nmat4605 Macroscopic deformation can induce chirality in initially achiral nanoparticle composites, and reversibly modulate their chiroptical properties. See also: Article by Kim et al. Wetting: Bumps lead the way   pp378 - 379 Manu Prakash doi:10.1038/nmat4612 Surfaces with slippery asymmetric bumps significantly increase water droplet condensation and shedding. Hydrogel composites: Shaped after print   pp379 - 380 Michael D. Dickey doi:10.1038/nmat4608 A plant-inspired approach can be used to print hydrogels that dynamically change shape on immersion in water in order to yield prescribed complex structures. See also: Letter by Sydney Gladman et al. Materials modelling: The frontiers and the challenges   pp381 - 382 Nicola Marzari doi:10.1038/nmat4613 Materials simulations have become a dominant force in the world of science and technology. The intellectual challenges lying ahead to sustain such a paradigm shift are discussed. Materials JOBS of the week The Richard N. Claytor Distinguished Professor of Optics University of Texas at Arlington More Science jobs from Materials EVENT Nature Conference on Materials for Energy 2016 11.06.16 Wuhan, China More science events from Review Top Metal oxides for optoelectronic applications   pp383 - 396 Xinge Yu, Tobin J. Marks and Antonio Facchetti doi:10.1038/nmat4599 Optical transparency, tunable conducting properties and easy processability make metal oxides key materials for advanced optoelectronic devices. This Review discusses recent advances in the synthesis of these materials and their use in applications. Letters Top Coupling between diffusion and orientation of pentacene molecules on an organic surface   pp397 - 400 Paul Rotter, Barbara A. J. Lechner, Antonia Morherr, David M. Chisnall, David J. Ward et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4575 Helium-3 spin-echo measurements and modelling of admolecule–substrate interactions through force field schemes are used to investigate the diffusion and rotation of pentacene admolecules on a pentacene monolayer at room temperature. See also: News and Views by Klappenberger The role of crystal diversity in understanding mass transfer in nanoporous materials   pp401 - 406 Julien Cousin Saint Remi, Alexander Lauerer, Christian Chmelik, Isabelle Vandendael, Herman Terryn et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4510 The efficient design of nanoporous materials crucially depends on understanding the mass transfer mechanism. Using micro-imaging techniques we now show that apparently identical crystals can exhibit different uptake rates. Underwater contact adhesion and microarchitecture in polyelectrolyte complexes actuated by solvent exchange   pp407 - 412 Qiang Zhao, Dong Woog Lee, B. Kollbe Ahn, Sungbaek Seo, Yair Kaufman et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4539 Polyelectrolyte complexation triggered by solvent exchange enables robust underwater contact adhesion for plastics, glasses, metals and other surfaces. Biomimetic 4D printing   pp413 - 418 A. Sydney Gladman, Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, Ralph G. Nuzzo, L. Mahadevan and Jennifer A. Lewis doi:10.1038/nmat4544 Printed hydrogel composites with plant-inspired architectures dynamically change shape on immersion in water to yield prescribed complex morphologies. See also: News and Views by Dickey Combinatorial codon scrambling enables scalable gene synthesis and amplification of repetitive proteins   pp419 - 424 Nicholas C. Tang and Ashutosh Chilkoti doi:10.1038/nmat4521 A codon-scrambling algorithm that exploits the codon redundancy of amino acids enables the high-throughput gene synthesis of repetitive proteins. Advertisement npj Clean Water: open for submissions  An open access, online-only journal, dedicated to publishing high-quality papers that describe the significant and cutting-edge research that continues to ensure the supply of clean water to populations.  Explore the benefits of submitting your next manuscript.   Articles Top Controlled lateral anisotropy in correlated manganite heterostructures by interface-engineered oxygen octahedral coupling   pp425 - 431 Z. Liao, M. Huijben, Z. Zhong, N. Gauquelin, S. Macke et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4579 Strong oxygen octahedral coupling is found to transfer the octahedral rotation between NdGaO3 and La2/3Sr1/3MnO3, allowing manipulation of the heterostructures' magnetic and electronic anisotropic properties by engineering the oxygen network. Tuning magnetic anisotropy by interfacially engineering the oxygen coordination environment in a transition metal oxide   pp432 - 437 Daisuke Kan, Ryotaro Aso, Riko Sato, Mitsutaka Haruta, Hiroki Kurata et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4580 The thickness of Ca0.5Sr0.5TiO3 is found to modify the oxygen coordination environment of SrRuO3 in the heterostructure GdScO3/Ca0.5Sr0.5TiO3/SrRuO3, also allowing the magnetic anisotropy to be tuned in the entire SrRuO3 layer. Approaching theoretical strength in glassy carbon nanolattices   pp438 - 443 J. Bauer, A. Schroer, R. Schwaiger and O. Kraft doi:10.1038/nmat4561 Mechanical metamaterials can exhibit exceptional strength due to their small sizes. Now, a nanoscale lattice of glassy carbon, fabricated by shrinking a microscale lattice, has demonstrated a compressive strength of up to 3 GPa. See also: News and Views by Li & Gao Conductance saturation in a series of highly transmitting molecular junctions   pp444 - 449 T. Yelin, R. Korytar, N. Sukenik, R. Vardimon, B. Kumar et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4552 The conductance of single-molecule junctions based on oligoacenes is shown to saturate when the molecule length increases. The saturation trend depends on the frontier orbitals of the metals used and on their hybridization with molecular π-orbitals. Adsorption of water at the SrO surface of ruthenates   pp450 - 455 Daniel Halwidl, Bernhard Stöger, Wernfried Mayr-Schmölzer, Jiri Pavelec, David Fobes et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4512 The interaction between perovskite oxides and water can have a significant influence on practical performance. Here the authors study the dynamics of surface water adsorption and hydroxide formation during monolayer formation on a ruthenate. Water reduction by a p-GaInP2 photoelectrode stabilized by an amorphous TiO2 coating and a molecular cobalt catalyst   pp456 - 460 Jing Gu, Yong Yan, James L. Young, K. Xerxes Steirer, Nathan R. Neale et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4511 Producing hydrogen via solar water splitting with metal-based molecular catalysts offers scalability. An active p-GaInP2 photocathode stabilized by a TiO2 layer functionalized by a cobaloxime molecular catalyst is now reported for water reduction. Reconfigurable chiroptical nanocomposites with chirality transfer from the macro- to the nanoscale   pp461 - 468 Yoonseob Kim, Bongjun Yeom, Oriol Arteaga, Seung Jo Yoo, Sang-Gil Lee et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4525 Macroscopic stretching can convert achiral nanoparticle composites into chiral materials whose optical properties can be reversibly modulated. See also: News and Views by Lee & Han Energy landscapes and functions of supramolecular systems   pp469 - 476 Faifan Tantakitti, Job Boekhoven, Xin Wang, Roman V. Kazantsev, Tao Yu et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4538 The energy landscapes of supramolecular systems are linked to their functions, as demonstrated by the switching of the balance of competing interactions in self-assembling amphiphiles. Microstructural heterogeneity directs micromechanics and mechanobiology in native and engineered fibrocartilage   pp477 - 484 Woojin M. Han, Su-Jin Heo, Tristan P. Driscoll, John F. Delucca, Claire M. McLeod et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4520 Tissue-engineered constructs with non-fibrous, proteoglycan-rich microdomains match the microstructural, micromechanical and mechanobiological properties of native fibrocartilaginous tissue. Top Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. 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