Nature Materials contents: May 2016 Volume 15 Number 5 pp 485-588

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TABLE OF CONTENTS May 2016 Volume 15, Issue 5 Editorial Commentary News and Views Letters Articles Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement The School of Materials Science and Engineering at Zhejiang Univ., located in Hangzhou, China, now seeks globally for talents ① Thousand Talents Program for Long-Term Innovative Talents ~ 5 positions ② Thousand Talents Program for Distinguished Young Scholars ~10 positions ③ Postdoctoral researchers ~50 positions with annual salary between RMB 100,000 and RMB 300,000. Please visit http://mse.zju.edu.cn/, or reach the HR by wangyp@zju.edu.cn or +86-571-87952293.   Advertisement Discovery and technology for human health  Now open for submissions Straddling the life sciences, the physical sciences and engineering, Nature Biomedical Engineering will publish — weekly and online-only — biological, medical and engineering advances that can directly inspire or lead to improvements in human health or healthcare.    Advertisement Nature Conference on FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS — CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES  June 6-8, 2016 | Nanjing, China Presented by: Nanjing Tech University | Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM) Nature Communications | Nature  REGISTER NOW!   Editorial Top Graphene steps into biomedicine   p485 doi:10.1038/nmat4639 Biomedical applications for graphene are attracting interest from academics and industrial partners aiming to develop next-generation medical devices and therapies. Commentary Top Accelerating advanced-materials commercialization   pp487 - 491 Elicia Maine and Purnesh Seegopaul doi:10.1038/nmat4625 Long commercialization times, high capital costs and sustained uncertainty deter investment in innovation for advanced materials. With appropriate strategies, technology and market uncertainties can be reduced, and the commercialization of advanced materials accelerated. News and Views Top Spintronics: Skyrmionics gets hot   pp493 - 494 Stefan Krause and Roland Wiesendanger doi:10.1038/nmat4615 The observation of magnetic skyrmions at room temperature that can be driven by short current pulses at speeds exceeding 100 m s-1 raises great expectations for skyrmion-based racetrack memories. See also: Letter by Woo et al. Electromagnetic pathway: Flexible yet robust   pp494 - 495 Bo Zhen and Marin Soljačić doi:10.1038/nmat4630 Researchers have experimentally demonstrated a new type of pathway for electromagnetic waves, which allows an easy reconfiguration into various shapes while significantly suppressing backscattering. See also: Article by Cheng et al. Complex oxides: Intricate disorder   pp496 - 497 Blas Pedro Uberuaga doi:10.1038/nmat4582 The presence of ordered domains in intrinsically disordered pyrochlores and spinels calls for a reassessment of our understanding of their structure and disordering mechanism. See also: Letter by Shamblin et al. Ferroelastic domains: Springy expansion   pp497 - 498 Kathrin Dorr doi:10.1038/nmat4596 The controllable and reversible growth of ferroelastic domains in a ferroelectric thin film with composition and strain gradients may enable new devices. See also: Article by Agar et al. Nanocrystal solids: Order and progress   pp498 - 499 Christophe Delerue doi:10.1038/nmat4597 Quantification of structural disorder and electron localization in superlattices of colloidal nanocrystals shows that minimizing variations in size and epitaxial connections is key to enhance the electronic properties of these materials. See also: Article by Whitham et al. Material witness: None more black   p500 Philip Ball doi:10.1038/nmat4633 Materials JOBS of the week PhD candidate in Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Physics University of Luxembourg / FSTC Postdoctoral Research Fellow Brown University Postdoc for New Magnetic Resonance Methods in Oncology German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). More Science jobs from Materials EVENT American Advanced Materials Congress 04.12.16 Florida, USA More science events from Letters Top Observation of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-driven dynamics in ultrathin metallic ferromagnets   pp501 - 506 Seonghoon Woo, Kai Litzius, Benjamin Krüger, Mi-Young Im, Lucas Caretta, Kornel Richter, Maxwell Mann, Andrea Krone, Robert M. Reeve, Markus Weigand, Parnika Agrawal, Ivan Lemesh, Mohamad-Assaad Mawass, Peter Fischer, Mathias Kläui and Geoffrey S. D. Beach doi:10.1038/nmat4593 Generation of stable skyrmion lattices and displacement of trains of individual skyrmions along a magnetic racetrack by short current pulses are demonstrated at room temperature in ultrathin metallic ferromagnets. See also: News and Views by Krause & Wiesendanger Probing disorder in isometric pyrochlore and related complex oxides   pp507 - 511 Jacob Shamblin, Mikhail Feygenson, Joerg Neuefeind, Cameron L. Tracy, Fuxiang Zhang, Sarah Finkeldei, Dirk Bosbach, Haidong Zhou, Rodney C. Ewing and Maik Lang doi:10.1038/nmat4581 Disordering in complex oxides is important for their radiation resistance. It is now shown that pyrochlores disorder by the formation of a weberite-like phase, with similar behaviour observed in spinels, adding complexity to their disordering. See also: News and Views by Uberuaga Thermal resistance at a solid/superfluid helium interface   pp512 - 516 Aymeric Ramiere, Sebastian Volz and Jay Amrit doi:10.1038/nmat4574 Experimental findings show that the resonant phonon scattering mechanism proposed by Adamenko and Fuks in 1971, comes into play regarding thermal transport at interfaces, when the surface roughness is comparable to phonon wavelengths. Colloidal metal oxide nanocrystal catalysis by sustained chemically driven ligand displacement   pp517 - 521 Jonathan De Roo, Isabel Van Driessche, Jose C. Martins and Zeger Hens doi:10.1038/nmat4554 Here the authors show that nanocrystals of hafnium oxide can be applied as stable catalytic materials using a dynamic ligand-exchange reaction mechanism. Organically linked iron oxide nanoparticle supercrystals with exceptional isotropic mechanical properties   pp522 - 528 Axel Dreyer, Artur Feld, Andreas Kornowski, Ezgi D. Yilmaz, Heshmat Noei, Andreas Meyer, Tobias Krekeler, Chengge Jiao, Andreas Stierle, Volker Abetz, Horst Weller and Gerold A. Schneider doi:10.1038/nmat4553 Crystals of spherical iron oxide nanoparticles linked by oleic acid ligands show exceptional bending modulus, hardness and strength. Photoexcited quantum dots for killing multidrug-resistant bacteria   pp529 - 534 Colleen M. Courtney, Samuel M. Goodman, Jessica A. McDaniel, Nancy E. Madinger, Anushree Chatterjee and Prashant Nagpal doi:10.1038/nmat4542 Light-activated quantum dots can selectively kill multidrug-resistant bacteria by altering the cellular redox environment. Articles Top Magnetization switching by spin–orbit torque in an antiferromagnet–ferromagnet bilayer system   pp535 - 541 Shunsuke Fukami, Chaoliang Zhang, Samik DuttaGupta, Aleksandr Kurenkov and Hideo Ohno doi:10.1038/nmat4566 Antiferromagnet/ferromagnet bilayers are shown to exhibit large enough spin–orbit torque to switch the magnetization of the ferromagnetic layer without the application of external magnetic fields. Robust reconfigurable electromagnetic pathways within a photonic topological insulator   pp542 - 548 Xiaojun Cheng, Camille Jouvaud, Xiang Ni, S. Hossein Mousavi, Azriel Z. Genack and Alexander B. Khanikaev doi:10.1038/nmat4573 Topologically protected states at the interface of magnetic domain walls in a parallel plate waveguide with adjustable rods, are shown to be directed along different paths, as the waveguide geometry changes. See also: News and Views by Zhen & Soljacic Highly mobile ferroelastic domain walls in compositionally graded ferroelectric thin films   pp549 - 556 J. C. Agar, A. R. Damodaran, M. B. Okatan, J. Kacher, C. Gammer, R. K. Vasudevan, S. Pandya, L. R. Dedon, R. V. K. Mangalam, G. A. Velarde, S. Jesse, N. Balke, A. M. Minor, S. V. Kalinin and L. W. Martin doi:10.1038/nmat4567 The ability to manipulate domains in ferroelectrics offers new device opportunities. Compositional and strain gradients in a heterostructure have now been shown to enable the control of ferroelastic domain shape and mobility. See also: News and Views by Dorr Charge transport and localization in atomically coherent quantum dot solids   pp557 - 563 Kevin Whitham, Jun Yang, Benjamin H. Savitzky, Lena F. Kourkoutis, Frank Wise and Tobias Hanrath doi:10.1038/nmat4576 Variations in the size of the nanocrystals and in the width of their epitaxial connections are shown to significantly affect carrier localization in superlattices formed by the oriented attachment of PbSe nanocrystals. See also: News and Views by Delerue Interfacial electronic effects control the reaction selectivity of platinum catalysts   pp564 - 569 Guangxu Chen, Chaofa Xu, Xiaoqing Huang, Jinyu Ye, Lin Gu, Gang Li, Zichao Tang, Binghui Wu, Huayan Yang, Zipeng Zhao, Zhiyou Zhou, Gang Fu and Nanfeng Zheng doi:10.1038/nmat4555 Here the authors demonstrate how the reaction selectivity of catalytic platinum nanowires can be controlled through surface modification with organic ligands. In situ hydrodynamic spectroscopy for structure characterization of porous energy storage electrodes   pp570 - 575 Netanel Shpigel, Mikhael D. Levi, Sergey Sigalov, Olga Girshevitz, Doron Aurbach, Leonid Daikhin, Piret Pikma, Margus Marandi, Alar Jänes, Enn Lust, Nicolas Jäckel and Volker Presser doi:10.1038/nmat4577 Characterizing intercalation-induced changes in energy storage electrodes is challenging. A spectroscopic method based on the quartz-crystal microbalance can now simultaneously track the interfacial reliability and mechanical stability of battery electrodes. Realistic molecular model of kerogen's nanostructure   pp576 - 582 Colin Bousige, Camélia Matei Ghimbeu, Cathie Vix-Guterl, Andrew E. Pomerantz, Assiya Suleimenova, Gavin Vaughan, Gaston Garbarino, Mikhail Feygenson, Christoph Wildgruber, Franz-Josef Ulm, Roland J.-M. Pellenq and Benoit Coasne doi:10.1038/nmat4541 Molecular models of kerogens provide a detailed picture of their nanostructure in organic-rich shale. Programming curvature using origami tessellations   pp583 - 588 Levi H. Dudte, Etienne Vouga, Tomohiro Tachi and L. Mahadevan doi:10.1038/nmat4540 Elementary geometric constructions and constrained optimization algorithms can be used to fit origami tessellations to any curved surface. Top 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.   Natureevents is a fully searchable, multi-disciplinary database designed to maximise exposure for events organisers. The contents of the Natureevents Directory are now live. The digital version is available here. Find the latest scientific conferences, courses, meetings and symposia on natureevents.com. 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