Abstract Intercalation materials are promising candidates for reversible energy storage and are, example, used as lithium-battery electrodes, hydrogen-storage compounds, electrochromic materials. An important issue preventing the more widespread use of these is that they undergo structural transformations (of up to ∼10% lattice strains) during intercalation, which expand material, nucleate micr...

Noncentrosymmetric (NCS) materials feature an exciting array of functionalities such as nonlinear optical (NLO) responses and topological spin textures (skyrmions). While NLO magnetic skyrmions display two different sets physical properties, their design strategies are deeply connected in terms atomic-scale precision, structural customization, electronic tunability. Despite impressive progress ...