Nature Materials is a monthly journal publishing the best research from all areas of materials science and engineering. All editorial decisions are made by a team of full-time professional editors. Our international standard serial number (ISSN) is 1476-1122. Our electronic international standard serial number (EISSN) is 1476-4660. Nature Materials is a monthly multi-disciplinary journal aimed at bringing together cutting-edge research across the entire spectrum of materials science and engineering. Materials research is a diverse and fast-growing discipline, which has moved from a largely applied, engineering focus to a position where it has an increasing impact on other classical disciplines such as physics, chemistry and biology. Nature Materials covers all applied and fundamental aspects of the synthesis/processing, structure/composition, properties and performance of materials, where "materials" are identified as substances in the condensed states (liquid, solid, colloidal) designed or manipulated for technological ends.