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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 30/09/2026

The inside front features: Highly stretchable membranes and robust liquid marbles based on electromechanically stabilized aero-GaN tetrapodal networks by Ion Tiginyanu and colleagues. Read the full article for free: xlink.rsc.org...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 30/09/2026

Check out the latest front covers for Issue 18! The outside front highlights: Data-free physics-informed inverse programming of bistable kirigami energy landscapes by Sanha Kim, Seunghwa Ryu and colleagues. Read the full article: xlink.rsc.org...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 08/09/2026

The inside front cover showcases research by Youfa Zhang and colleagues on Nanoporous superhydrophobic coatings via electrophoretic deposition for stable anti-icing. Read the full article for free: doi.org/10.1039/d6mh...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 08/09/2026

Take a look at Mater. Horiz. Issue 17 cover. It features: Research by Shinjiro Umezu on A crystalline reinforced dual-network hydrogel for wearable sensing devices . Read the full open access article for free: doi.org/10.1039/d6mh...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 31/08/2026

Take a look at Mater. Horiz. Issue 15 cover. It features: Electron-beam-induced structural degradation in two representative 2D MOFs: a ligand-dependent comparison by Pritam Banerjee and colleagues. Read the full article for free: doi.org/10.1039/d6mh...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 27/07/2026

Take a look at Mater. Horiz. Issue 14 cover. It features: Reprocessable crosslinked polymer dielectrics for high-temperature capacitive energy storage by Congzhen Xie and colleagues. Read the full article for free: doi.org/10.1039/d6mh...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 22/07/2026

Have you read this intriguing post by Ankita Saha et. al. about pressure-tunable thermal conductivity in Sm₁₋ₓGdₓS alloys? It demonstrates reversible switching between high and low thermal conductivity states across a wide temperature range. Read this article for #free : doi.org/10.1039/d6mh...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 14/07/2026

The back cover features: Operando neutron radiography validates a parameter-free transport–kinetics model for thick solid-state battery cathodes by Guang Yang and colleagues. Read the full article here: xlink.rsc.org...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 14/07/2026

Check out Issue 13 covers in Materials Horizons! The outside front highlights: Robust reconfigurable modular metamaterials with demand-driven elasto-plastic properties by Haokai Zheng, Chunlei Li, Xiaohu Yao and colleagues. Read the full article here: xlink.rsc.org...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 03/07/2026

Issue 12 inside front cover features: Suppressing thermal transport in nonporous polymer hybrids by limiting thermally accessible vibrational modes by Yanfei Xu and colleagues. Read the full article: xlink.rsc.org...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 03/07/2026

Check out the latest covers in Materials Horizons! Issue 12 front cover highlights: Nanoconfinement as an electrolyte-state selector in hard carbon for sodium storage by Soorathep Kheawhom and colleagues. Read the full article here: xlink.rsc.org...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 18/06/2026

Materials Horizons Outstanding Review 2025 Porous polymers: structure, fabrication and application

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 18/06/2026

Materials Horizons Outstanding Article Runner-up 2025 Conjugated polymer nanoparticles boosting growth and photosynthesis in biohybrid plants

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 18/06/2026

Materials Horizons Outstanding Article 2025 Breaking scaling relations in AgAuCuPdPt high-entropy alloy nanoparticles for CO2 electroreduction via machine learning

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 18/06/2026

Discover the Materials Horizons 2025 Outstanding Paper Award Winners: doi.org/10.1039/D6MH... Celebrating the exceptional work published in Materials Horizons

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 18/06/2026

There is still time to present your (nano)catalysis work at the Horizons symposium this November- poster abstracts are open until 1 September! Find out more and meet our plenary speakers below 👇 www.rsc.org/events/find-...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 16/06/2026

The outside back cover highlights: Acoustic energy-harvesting meta-surface by coupling a nonlinear Helmholtz resonator and an auxetic structure by Yifan Zhu, Hui Zhang and colleagues. Read the full article: xlink.rsc.org...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 16/06/2026

The inside back cover showcases work by Tsuyoshi Tsujioka and colleagues: Giant surface potentials in organic films enable electrode-free self-driven water droplets. Read the full article: xlink.rsc.org...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 16/06/2026

The inside front features: Surface-based stress tomography of architected metamaterials via physics-constrained generative learning by Seunghwa Ryu and colleagues. Read the full article: xlink.rsc.org...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 16/06/2026

Check out our Issue 11 covers! The outside front highlights: Soft robotic cardiac sleeves: materials, actuation mechanisms and translational pathways by Javad Foroughi and colleagues. Read the Review article for free here: xlink.rsc.org...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 05/06/2026

Take a look at the inside front cover of Issue 10 of Materials Horizons "Hierarchical strengthening and toughening design of superalloy joints via a chemically complex intermetallic alloy-modified diffusion bonding strategy" from J. T. Xiong, T. Yang et al. Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D6MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 05/06/2026

Check out the outside front cover of Issue 10 of Materials Horizons! "High-performance transparent metal mesh electrodes utilizing a metal-vapor-desorption layer for organic light-emitting diode applications" from Byeongmoon Lee, Yongtaek Hong et al. Read for FREE, here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 04/06/2026

Take a look at the inside front cover of Materials Horizons, Issue 9, from Ryota Tamate, Koichiro Uto et al. "Reprogrammable shape memory ion gels via physical entanglement of ultrahigh molecular weight polymers" Read for FREE, here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 04/06/2026

Check out the outside front cover of Materials Horizons, Issue 9! "A low interfacial-toughness self-segregating thermoset for large-scale ice-shedding coating application" from Dean C. Webster et al. Read it for FREE, here: doi.org/10.1039/D6MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 03/06/2026

Take a look at the back cover of Issue 8! "A battery-free, wireless graphene pressure sensor for machine learning-assisted posture classification and VR/AR visualization in smart healthcare environments" from Myungwoo Choi, Sunjin Yu, Seokwoo Jeon et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 03/06/2026

Did you see the front cover of Issue 8 of Materials Horizons? "Navigating the labyrinth of isotropic wrinkling: design, fabrication, characterization, and applications" from Zain Ahmad and João T. Cabral Read for free, here: doi.org/10.1039/D6MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 13/05/2026

Our next Materials Horizons Emerging Investigator is Professor Jingchao Li - find out more in our interview 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D6MH... Read their Emerging Investigator article on wireless graphene pressure sensors 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D6MH... #MatSky #MaterialsChemistry #biomaterials

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 12/05/2026

👏 Our next Materials Horizons Emerging Investigator is Dr Meng Qin 👏 Find out more in our interview 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/d6mh... Read their Emerging Investigator article on wireless graphene pressure sensors 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH... #chemistry #materialsscience #matsky

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 08/05/2026

Our next Materials Horizons Emerging Investigator is Dr Donghwi Cho - find out more in our interview 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D6MH... Read their Emerging Investigator article on wireless graphene pressure sensors 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 07/05/2026

Take a look at this outside back cover from Issue 7! "Materials- and process-driven microstructural engineering for scalable dry-processed electrode manufacturing" by Yong Min Lee et al. 🔗Read for FREE: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 07/05/2026

Have you seen the inside back cover from Issue 7? "2D stress-distribution imaging using 3D transparent stimulus-responsive color-changing rubber" from Syuji Fujii, Yuya Oaki et al. 🔗 Read for FREE here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 05/05/2026

Take a look at this inside front cover of Issue 7 of Materials Horizons "Uncovering a third function of the transistor beyond switching and amplification: coupled photo-responsive oscillators for in-sensor computing" from Seong-Yun Yun et al. Read for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 05/05/2026

Check out the outside front cover of Issue 7 of Materials Horizons, from Hsuen-Li Chen et al. "Zigzag-type metastructures of metallic glass with precisely tunable emissivity for thermal infrared camouflage technology" Read more here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 17/04/2026

Full plenary speaker line-up announced!!👇 Meet our plenary speakers and submit an oral abstract for your chance to join them in London this November to explore and celebrate the theme of the 2026 Horizons symposium: (Nano)catalysis. www.rsc.org/events/find-...

Horizons symposium 2026: (Nano)catalysis. 12-13 November 2026. Oral abstract deadline 26 May 2026.

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 13/04/2026

Take a look at this inside front cover from Issue 6 of Materials Horizons "Isomeric organic–inorganic indium bromide single crystals with delayed and dual colour emission" from Vasudevanpillai Biju et al. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Purple polyhedra, green/yellow-emitting crystals, black background

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 13/04/2026

Check out the front cover of Issue 6 of Materials Horizons "A self-regulating wearable OLED patch for accelerated wound healing via photobiomodulation-triggered drug delivery" from Yongmin Jeon, Chan-Su Park, Daekyung Sung, Kyung Cheol Choi et al. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH02129D

Skin layers with red/yellow illuminated layered patch, pink/yellow ROS

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 01/04/2026

Our next Materials Horizons Emerging Investigator is Dr Gloria Zhang - find out more in our interview 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D6MH... Read her Emerging Investigator article on digital shape-morphing thermo-mechanical metamaterials 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 27/03/2026

Check out the outside back cover from Issue 5 of Materials Horizons! "Structural dimensionality governing CO2/C2H2 separation in MWW zeolites" from Bingwen Li, Xuzhi Hu, Rongsheng Cai et al., Read more here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

A large blue porous zeolite structure floating in a dark cosmic-style background. The structure has numerous circular openings, with purple and red gas-like molecules moving through and around it.

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 26/03/2026

Our next @materialshorizons.rsc.org Emerging Investigator is Professor Himchan Cho - find out more in our interview 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D6MH... Read his Emerging Investigator article on high-efficiency perovskite light-emitting diodes👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 16/03/2026

Take a look at the inside front cover of issue 5 from Jiu-an Lv et al. "Electro-driven fibrous soft actuators towards flapping-wing control for insect-scale robots" Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 16/03/2026

Check out the outside front cover of issue 5! "Materials for thermochemical energy storage and conversion: attributes for low-temperature applications" from Hendrik P. Huinink, Donald J. Siegel et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Red/blue swirl around large molecular cluster, red/white small molecules, black background

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 11/03/2026

Have you submitted your abstract yet? We are delighted to be hosting the Horizons Symposium again this year in 2026 - this time with a focus on (nano)catalysis! Join a fantastic line up of plenary speakers in the beautiful Burlington House in London this November. www.rsc.org/events/detai...

Horizons symposium 2026: Nanocatalysis. Oral abstract deadline 26 May, event held 12-13 November 2026 in London, UK.

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 10/03/2026

Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons are delighted to showcase the latest developments in nanocatalysis in this special themed collection 👇 Guest Edited by Marcella Lusardi, Tianyi Ma, Wee-Jun Ong, Vivek Polshettiwar, Jennifer Strunk and Huabin Zhang pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 05/03/2026

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2026, the RSC materials portfolio of journals has collated journal-specific collections showcasing a selection of articles published in 2025 led by women scientists around the world. Explore the Materials Horizons collection: pubs.rsc.org/en/Journals/...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 04/03/2026

Check out 'High-entropy layered double hydroxides enabled wide-bandwidth near-infrared photodetection with viable environmental resistance' by Chia-Yun Chen et al. featured on the outside back cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 4 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Materials Horizons back cover text reads Showcasing research from Professor Chia-Yun Chen’s
group at Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
High-entropy layered double hydroxides enabled
wide-bandwidth near-infrared photodetection with
viable environmental resistance
High-entropy layered double hydroxides (HE–LDHs) based
photodetectors display ultrafast photoresponse with
exceptional environmental resistance and noise suppression,
permitting the practicality and functionality of next-generation
near-infrared optoelectronics.

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 04/03/2026

Featured on the inside back cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 4, 'A platform for the formation of uniform DNA condensate droplets using vibration-induced local vortices' by Hiroaki Suzuki et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Materials Horizons inside back cover text reads:
Highlighting work from Prof. H. Suzuki and co-workers
at Chuo University, Japan
A platform for the formation of uniform DNA condensate droplets
using vibration-induced local vortices
We introduce a novel microfluidic approach using vibration-induced
local vortices to generate uniform DNA condensate droplets,
formed by interactions between sticky ends of multi-arm DNA
nanostructures, which serve as programmable smart materials. VILV
creates semi-closed microvortices that confine DNA, promoting
rapid, uniform droplet formation. Real-time tracking and systematic
control of size are achieved by tuning DNA concentration and
micropillar geometry. The platform also enables construction of
multicomponent “patchy” condensates with consistent morphology.
This scalable method provides a powerful tool for studying
liquid–liquid phase separation and constructing condensed
molecular systems.

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 26/02/2026

Check out 'Suppression of interfacial layers in ZrO 2/TiN capacitors by atomic layer deposition using ligand-engineered Zr precursors for scalable DRAM' by Woongkyu Lee et al. featured on the inside front cover of issue 4 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Materials Horizons cover image shows a circular structure with square structures on interface. A zoomed in cross-section shows molecular structures in red and gray

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 26/02/2026

Featured on the front cover of @materialshorizons.rsc.org issue 4 is 'High-performance dynamic random access memory capacitor with an equivalent oxide thickness of 0.31 nm via stepwise cycling in Y-doped Hf 0.5Zr 0.5O 2 thin films' by Cheol Seong Hwang et al. Read it here 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

Materials Horizons cover artwork shows two cubic structures, one of which has lightning sparks going through, above a rectangular structure depicting a R-A-M capacitor

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 17/02/2026

Our next @materialshorizons.rsc.org Emerging Investigator is Ankan Dutta Chowdhury - find out more in our interview 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D6MH... Read his Emerging Investigator article on a rapid Cu3N–Fe nanocube-based electrochemical sensor for cancer metabolites 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D5MH...

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Materials Horizons @materialshorizons.rsc.org · 16/02/2026

Our @materialshorizons.rsc.org themed collection on #metamaterials is still accepting submissions until 10 April 2026. If you work in the area, consider submitting your next work to this collection - more info here 🔗 www.rsc.org/publishing/j...

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