Themed collection Winners of the 2019 Horizons Outstanding Paper awards

Recognizing some of the most outstanding work published in Materials Horizons and the authors behind those articles.

We would like to take the opportunity to recognize some of the outstanding work published in the journal, as well as the authors behind those articles, by awarding a select number of Outstanding Paper prizes.

Stimuli-responsive polymers uniquely undergo physical/chemical changes in response to changes in their environment. Here, there use for sensing and actuation is reviewed.

Bioinspired functional materials with specific wettability: from nature and beyond nature.

Theoretical and experimental investigations of diacetylene-linked COFs with remarkable charge-transport properties.

Digital 3D printing with a shape memory polymer is utilized to create mechanical metamaterials exhibiting dramatic and reversible changes in stiffness, geometry, and functions.

Nanoparticles (MIPs) specifically detect and target senescent cells by binding to a surface protein, showing also specificity in vivo.

An approach enabling nanoscale-additive manufacturing of inorganics based on phase transition via calcination of laser structured hybrid resin is proposed.