Supramolecular self-assembly by layering orthogonality to program identity, connectivity and conformation

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 27 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00860-5The supramolecular self-assembly of topologically complex architectures is governed by the interplay of many reversible interaction types. This Review highlights strategies and limitations of combining different classes of interactions that must act orthogonally to direct structure. DCC, dynamic-covalent chemistry.

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Making sense of hydrogen evolution

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 27 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00863-2Adrian Lathouwers explains how a custom glass photoreactor, which integrates an amperometric microsensor, enables controlled and reproducible hydrogen evolution measurements for assessing photocatalytic activity.

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The past, present and future of self-driving laboratories

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 31 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00847-2Self-driving laboratories integrate automation, robotics and artificial intelligence to accelerate chemical discovery. This Review charts their evolution from bespoke systems to interoperable platforms, highlighting challenges in scalability, generalizability and data provenance, and outlining pathways towards networked, trustworthy infrastructures enabling collective scientific superintelligence.

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The past, present and future of self-driving laboratories

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 31 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00847-2Self-driving laboratories integrate automation, robotics and artificial intelligence to accelerate chemical discovery. This Review charts their evolution from bespoke systems to interoperable platforms, highlighting challenges in scalability, generalizability and data provenance, and outlining pathways towards networked, trustworthy infrastructures enabling collective scientific superintelligence.

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Supramolecular self-assembly by layering orthogonality to program identity, connectivity and conformation

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 27 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00860-5The supramolecular self-assembly of topologically complex architectures is governed by the interplay of many reversible interaction types. This Review highlights strategies and limitations of combining different classes of interactions that must act orthogonally to direct structure. DCC, dynamic-covalent chemistry.

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Making sense of hydrogen evolution

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 27 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00863-2Adrian Lathouwers explains how a custom glass photoreactor, which integrates an amperometric microsensor, enables controlled and reproducible hydrogen evolution measurements for assessing photocatalytic activity.

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Physicochemical processes in evaporation-based perovskite LEDs

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 21 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00844-5This Perspective presents a chemistry-driven framework linking physicochemical processes to system-level control in evaporation-based perovskite light-emitting diodes. We provide actionable guidelines for reproducible deposition and scalable device manufacturing.

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Supramolecular self-assembly by layering orthogonality to program identity, connectivity and conformation

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 27 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00860-5The supramolecular self-assembly of topologically complex architectures is governed by the interplay of many reversible interaction types. This Review highlights strategies and limitations of combining different classes of interactions that must act orthogonally to direct structure. DCC, dynamic-covalent chemistry.

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Making sense of hydrogen evolution

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 27 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00863-2Adrian Lathouwers explains how a custom glass photoreactor, which integrates an amperometric microsensor, enables controlled and reproducible hydrogen evolution measurements for assessing photocatalytic activity.

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Mathematics and mentorship make a recipe for success

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 20 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00859-yAhead of his 80th birthday, Isiah M. Warner, Boyd Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University, discussed his life in science.

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Sequence-defined polymers for predictable gene delivery

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 17 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00850-7Polymer vectors for non-viral gene delivery are typically inefficient and heterogeneous. This Review explores how sequence-defined polymers, advanced synthesis, imaging and computational design can enable precise, reproducible and programmable polymer systems for efficient and clinically translatable nucleic acid delivery.

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Physicochemical processes in evaporation-based perovskite LEDs

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 21 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00844-5This Perspective presents a chemistry-driven framework linking physicochemical processes to system-level control in evaporation-based perovskite light-emitting diodes. We provide actionable guidelines for reproducible deposition and scalable device manufacturing.

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Bridging stimulus-responsive and dissipative peptide assemblies to build complex interactive biomaterials

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00846-3Self-assembling peptides offer programmable routes to biomaterials with dynamic behaviour. Here, we compare stimulus-responsive and dissipative peptide assemblies, outline their design principles, and highlight strategies to integrate them, enabling complex, interactive biomaterials that emulate the non-equilibrium functions of living systems.

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Precision chemical engineering of dendrimers for nucleic acid delivery

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00855-2Dendrimers offer precise and tunable platforms for nucleic acids delivery. This Review outlines advances in dendrimer engineering for the delivery of diverse nucleic acids, highlighting their applications in therapeutics, vaccines and genome editing. Translational challenges including manufacturing, safety and regulatory considerations are also discussed, with perspectives to accelerate clinical translation.

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Mathematics and mentorship make a recipe for success

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 20 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00859-yAhead of his 80th birthday, Isiah M. Warner, Boyd Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University, discussed his life in science.

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Physicochemical processes in evaporation-based perovskite LEDs

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 21 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00844-5This Perspective presents a chemistry-driven framework linking physicochemical processes to system-level control in evaporation-based perovskite light-emitting diodes. We provide actionable guidelines for reproducible deposition and scalable device manufacturing.

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Devising a divisome for synthetic cells

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 13 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00848-1Cell division consists of three elementary steps: symmetry breaking, membrane constriction and abscission. Here, we review current strategies for achieving these steps in synthetic cells, assessing their successes and limitations with a view to integrating them within a divisome for synthetic cells.

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Mathematics and mentorship make a recipe for success

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 20 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00859-yAhead of his 80th birthday, Isiah M. Warner, Boyd Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University, discussed his life in science.

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Unlocking the potential of plastic in e-waste

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 13 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00858-zPlastic is a rapidly growing, yet overlooked, resource of electronic waste. It should be redefined as a chemically rich feedstock for high-value materials, rather than a disposal challenge. Realizing this potential requires advances in conversion technologies, system-level process integration, and policy frameworks enabling circular materials use and resource-efficient value chains.

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Sequence-defined polymers for predictable gene delivery

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 17 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00850-7Polymer vectors for non-viral gene delivery are typically inefficient and heterogeneous. This Review explores how sequence-defined polymers, advanced synthesis, imaging and computational design can enable precise, reproducible and programmable polymer systems for efficient and clinically translatable nucleic acid delivery.

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Sequence-defined polymers for predictable gene delivery

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 17 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00850-7Polymer vectors for non-viral gene delivery are typically inefficient and heterogeneous. This Review explores how sequence-defined polymers, advanced synthesis, imaging and computational design can enable precise, reproducible and programmable polymer systems for efficient and clinically translatable nucleic acid delivery.

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Bridging stimulus-responsive and dissipative peptide assemblies to build complex interactive biomaterials

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00846-3Self-assembling peptides offer programmable routes to biomaterials with dynamic behaviour. Here, we compare stimulus-responsive and dissipative peptide assemblies, outline their design principles, and highlight strategies to integrate them, enabling complex, interactive biomaterials that emulate the non-equilibrium functions of living systems.

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Precision chemical engineering of dendrimers for nucleic acid delivery

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00855-2Dendrimers offer precise and tunable platforms for nucleic acids delivery. This Review outlines advances in dendrimer engineering for the delivery of diverse nucleic acids, highlighting their applications in therapeutics, vaccines and genome editing. Translational challenges including manufacturing, safety and regulatory considerations are also discussed, with perspectives to accelerate clinical translation.

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Dyeing and drying, but not dying

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00856-1In 2015, Freitag and colleagues serendipitously discovered that dye-sensitized solar cells with copper-complex electrolytes continued to function after drying out, performing as well as their liquid predecessors. This launched a new class of sold-state devices, ‘zombie’ cells, with power-conversion efficiencies over 10% in sunlight and approaching 40% under indoor light.

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Feeling the force

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00857-0Maria Kaeek explains the workings of a custom-built surface forces balance, a tool capable of measuring the van der Waals forces between two atomically smooth surfaces just a few nanometres apart with an unrivalled resolution.

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Bridging stimulus-responsive and dissipative peptide assemblies to build complex interactive biomaterials

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00846-3Self-assembling peptides offer programmable routes to biomaterials with dynamic behaviour. Here, we compare stimulus-responsive and dissipative peptide assemblies, outline their design principles, and highlight strategies to integrate them, enabling complex, interactive biomaterials that emulate the non-equilibrium functions of living systems.

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Precision chemical engineering of dendrimers for nucleic acid delivery

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 15 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00855-2Dendrimers offer precise and tunable platforms for nucleic acids delivery. This Review outlines advances in dendrimer engineering for the delivery of diverse nucleic acids, highlighting their applications in therapeutics, vaccines and genome editing. Translational challenges including manufacturing, safety and regulatory considerations are also discussed, with perspectives to accelerate clinical translation.

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Devising a divisome for synthetic cells

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 13 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00848-1Cell division consists of three elementary steps: symmetry breaking, membrane constriction and abscission. Here, we review current strategies for achieving these steps in synthetic cells, assessing their successes and limitations with a view to integrating them within a divisome for synthetic cells.

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Unlocking the potential of plastic in e-waste

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 13 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00858-zPlastic is a rapidly growing, yet overlooked, resource of electronic waste. It should be redefined as a chemically rich feedstock for high-value materials, rather than a disposal challenge. Realizing this potential requires advances in conversion technologies, system-level process integration, and policy frameworks enabling circular materials use and resource-efficient value chains.

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Devising a divisome for synthetic cells

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 13 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00848-1Cell division consists of three elementary steps: symmetry breaking, membrane constriction and abscission. Here, we review current strategies for achieving these steps in synthetic cells, assessing their successes and limitations with a view to integrating them within a divisome for synthetic cells.

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