Themed collection 2022 Horizons Outstanding Paper Award Winners

Recognising some of the outstanding work published in Materials Horizons, as well as the authors behind those articles.

Recognizing some of the outstanding work published in Nanoscale Horizons, as well as the authors behind those articles.

Inorganic–organic interfaces: a tutorial on using organic functional groups to enhance the performances and/or enable new functionality of inorganic nanomaterials.

The cross-fertilisation between the listed disciplines with a long standing knowledge on the application of artificial intelligence protocols and electron microscopy for materials science can entail the next breakthroughs in the field.

Here we introduce for the first time a synthesis method of a core–shell photoanode composed of nanostructured self-standing titania nanotubes filled with Au nanowires. Photoanode shows high photon to current efficiency of 35% and incredible stability.

The butterfly wing scales of several species exhibit dual functionalities of radiative cooling and structural coloring. Here, we artificially reconstruct a butterfly wing scale of periodically grating nanostructures with extremely high porosity.

Chemically manipulated silicon diffraction gratings serve as a toolbox for the systematic investigation on how different material properties guide bacterial attachment onto a surface, which is imperative for mediating infections and biofouling.

We introduce a new structural model for polymer materials: the semi-paracrystallinity. The assessment of structural order in semi-paracrystalline materials requires to consider the quality of ordering of the paracrystalline lattice and the degree of paracrystallinity.