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TABLE OF CONTENTS December 2015 Volume 14, Issue 12 Correction Editorial Commentary Research Highlights News and Views Review Letters Articles Subscribe   Facebook   RSS   Recommend to library   Twitter   Advertisement Light: Science & Applications received a 2014 Impact Factor of 14.603. It is an open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing fundamental research as well as the important issues in engineering and applied sciences that are related to optics and photonics.  Submit your manuscript   Correction Top Correction   p1181 doi:10.1038/nmat4506 Editorial Top Nurturing entrepreneurship   p1181 doi:10.1038/nmat4507 The Innovation Forum on Quantum Technologies aims to help academics start technology companies. Commentary Top Better thermoelectrics through glass-like crystals   pp1182 - 1185 Matt Beekman, Donald T. Morelli and George S. Nolas doi:10.1038/nmat4461 Twenty years ago, the 'phonon-glass, electron-crystal' concept changed thinking in thermoelectric materials research, resulting in new high-performance materials and an increased focus on controlling structure and chemical bonding to minimize irreversible heat transport in crystals. Research Highlights Top Nanomedicine: Polymeric vaccines | Graphene synthesis: Molten bed | Organic semiconductors: Fast crystal patterning | Colloidal quantum dots: Long-lived lasing | Transmembrane proteins: Sorted by curvature News and Views Top Graphene: Plasmons in moiré superlattices   pp1187 - 1188 Marco Polini and Frank H. L. Koppens doi:10.1038/nmat4496 The propagation of plasmons in graphene–hexagonal boron nitride moiré patterns is experimentally studied for the first time via infrared scattering near-field optical spectroscopy. See also: Article by Ni et al. Spintronics: Turbulent power   p1188 David Ciudad doi:10.1038/nmat4499 Magnesium alloys: Ready for the road   pp1189 - 1190 Gerald S. Frankel doi:10.1038/nmat4453 Strength, ductility and corrosion resistance have been simultaneously obtained in a low-density lithium-containing magnesium alloy, thereby enhancing its potential use in transportation. See also: Article by Xu et al. Implantable electronics: A sensor web for neurons   pp1190 - 1191 Tarun Saxena and Ravi V. Bellamkonda doi:10.1038/nmat4454 An implantable, flexible mesh with embedded electrodes for sensing neural activity in vivo improves brain-sampling efficiency and reduces the amount of cortical tissue injured. See also: Article by Xie et al. Electrocatalysis: Powered by porphyrin packing   pp1192 - 1193 Idan Hod, Omar K. Farha and Joseph T. Hupp doi:10.1038/nmat4494 Self-assembling covalent organic frameworks can boost electrode performance for the catalytic reduction of carbon dioxide. Material witness: Correcting errors in self-assembly   p1193 Philip Ball doi:10.1038/nmat4495 Materials JOBS of the week PhD Studentship in Graphene / 2D Materials at the Graphene NOWNANO CDT The University of Manchester Faculty, Materials Science and Engineering North Carolina State University Postdoctoral Fellowship in Materials Science National University of Singapore (NUS) Professor, Synthesis of Soft Materials University of Chicago More Science jobs from Materials EVENT Global Congress & Expo on Materials Science & Nanoscience 24.10.16 Dubai More science events from Review Top Electrical contacts to two-dimensional semiconductors   pp1195 - 1205 Adrien Allain, Jiahao Kang, Kaustav Banerjee and Andras Kis doi:10.1038/nmat4452 This Review discusses the physics of electrical contacts to 2D semiconductors and the strategies adopted to improve charge injection in these materials. The requirements for efficient spin injection in spintronic devices are also presented. Letters Top Optimal wrapping of liquid droplets with ultrathin sheets   pp1206 - 1209 Joseph D. Paulsen, Vincent Démery, Christian D. Santangelo, Thomas P. Russell, Benny Davidovitch et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4397 Highly bendable yet unstretchable ultrathin sheets can wrap a liquid droplet to form an optimal non-spherical shape that minimizes the unwrapped interfacial area, regardless of interfacial energies and the sheet's mechanical properties. Control of hierarchical polymer mechanics with bioinspired metal-coordination dynamics   pp1210 - 1216 Scott C. Grindy, Robert Learsch, Davoud Mozhdehi, Jing Cheng, Devin G. Barrett et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4401 Polymer materials with decoupled spatial structure and mechanical performance can be designed by tuning the relative concentration of two types of metal–ligand crosslink. Articles Top Plasmons in graphene moiré superlattices   pp1217 - 1222 G. X. Ni, H. Wang, J. S. Wu, Z. Fei, M. D. Goldflam et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4425 Graphene/hBN moiré superlattices exhibit a new set of Dirac mini-bands, whose interband transitions—together with free electrons in the ordinary Dirac bands—modify the nature of the plasmons, as revealed by infrared near-field microscopy. See also: News and Views by Polini & Koppens Convergence of multi-valley bands as the electronic origin of high thermoelectric performance in CoSb3 skutterudites   pp1223 - 1228 Yinglu Tang, Zachary M. Gibbs, Luis A. Agapito, Guodong Li, Hyun-Sik Kim et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4430 It is shown that the large thermoelectric capability of CoSb3 skutterudite can be associated with a secondary conduction band with high valley degeneracy, which can converge with the light conduction band at high temperatures. A high-specific-strength and corrosion-resistant magnesium alloy   pp1229 - 1235 Wanqiang Xu, Nick Birbilis, Gang Sha, Yu Wang, John E. Daniels et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4435 A magnesium-based alloy with large lithium content demonstrates high specific strength in combination with corrosion resistance, associated with the formation of a lithium carbonate surface film that protects the alloy from its environment. See also: News and Views by Frankel Hydride formation thermodynamics and hysteresis in individual Pd nanocrystals with different size and shape   pp1236 - 1244 Svetlana Syrenova, Carl Wadell, Ferry A. A. Nugroho, Tina A. Gschneidtner, Yuri A. Diaz Fernandez et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4409 The physicochemical properties of nanoparticles can sometimes prove difficult to characterize. Using plasmonic nanospectroscopy, hydride formation thermodynamics in individual Pd nanocrystals are found to be nearly size- and shape-independent. Efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis using ternary pyrite-type cobalt phosphosulphide   pp1245 - 1251 Miguel Cabán-Acevedo, Michael L. Stone, J. R. Schmidt, Joseph G. Thomas, Qi Ding et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4410 Production of hydrogen by water splitting demands efficient Earth-abundant catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction. An efficient ternary pyrite-type cobalt phosphosulphide catalyst for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production is now identified. Differential basal-to-apical accessibility of lamin A/C epitopes in the nuclear lamina regulated by changes in cytoskeletal tension   pp1252 - 1261 Teemu O. Ihalainen, Lina Aires, Florian A. Herzog, Ruth Schwartlander, Jens Moeller et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4389 A structural epitope on A-type lamins is significantly more exposed in the apical than in the basal nuclear lamina of human mesenchymal stem cells and fibroblasts under environmental conditions known to upregulate cell contractility. Cell-mediated fibre recruitment drives extracellular matrix mechanosensing in engineered fibrillar microenvironments   pp1262 - 1268 Brendon M. Baker, Britta Trappmann, William Y. Wang, Mahmut S. Sakar, Iris L. Kim et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4444 A synthetic fibrous material with tunable mechanics and architecture allows researchers to reveal that cells use fibre recruitment to probe and respond to the mechanics of fibrillar matrices. Matrix elasticity of void-forming hydrogels controls transplanted-stem-cell-mediated bone formation   pp1269 - 1277 Nathaniel Huebsch, Evi Lippens, Kangwon Lee, Manav Mehta, Sandeep T. Koshy et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4407 Matrix elasticity, which has been shown to regulate the fate of mesenchymal stem cells in vitro, can also be harnessed to therapeutically control bone formation. A sunblock based on bioadhesive nanoparticles   pp1278 - 1285 Yang Deng, Asiri Ediriwickrema, Fan Yang, Julia Lewis, Michael Girardi et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4422 A water-resistant sunblock based on bioadhesive nanoparticles encapsulating a model ultraviolet filter at low concentrations adheres to the stratum corneum without subsequent intra-epidermal or follicular penetration. Three-dimensional macroporous nanoelectronic networks as minimally invasive brain probes   pp1286 - 1292 Chong Xie, Jia Liu, Tian-Ming Fu, Xiaochuan Dai, Wei Zhou et al. doi:10.1038/nmat4427 An ultra-flexible cylindrical mesh embedding multiple electrodes bending away from the device is used to probe rodents' neural activity in vivo. This geometry improves the neuron–probe contact and reduces tissue response in chronic applications. 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