Article 18 February 2022 | Open Access Fast microwave heating-based one-step synthesis of DNA and RNA modified gold nanoparticles Simple methods for attaching polynucleotides to gold nanoparticles are of interest for simplifying conjugation in… show more Mengqi Huang, Erhu Xiong & Xiaoming Zhou Article 18 February 2022 | Open Access Biocatalysed synthesis planning using data-driven learning As of now, only rule-based systems support retrosynthetic planning using biocatalysis, while initial data-driven… show more Daniel Probst, Matteo Manica & Teodoro Laino Article 18 February 2022 | Open Access The emergence of macroscopic currents in photoconductive sampling of optical fields Photoconductive sampling of optical fields is a powerful measurement technique, but existing models fail to… show more Johannes Schötz, Ancyline Maliakkal & Matthias F. Kling Article 18 February 2022 | Open Access Light-induced dimension crossover dictated by excitonic correlations The relationship between the charge density wave and excitonic correlations in a layered compound 1T-TiSe2 has… show more Yun Cheng, Alfred Zong & Jie Zhang Article 18 February 2022 | Open Access High-pH structure of EmrE reveals the mechanism of proton-coupled substrate transport EmrE transporter effluxes cationic substrates across lipid membranes in a pH-coupled manner. Here, the authors… show more Alexander A. Shcherbakov, Peyton J. Spreacker & Mei Hong Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Recovery coupling in multilayer networks Infrastructure and power systems are often represented as multilayer structures of interdependent networks.… show more Michael M. Danziger & Albert-László Barabási Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Photochemistry of the pyruvate anion produces CO2, CO, CH3–, CH3, and a low energy electron Pyruvic acid and its conjugate base, the pyruvate anion, are largely present in the atmosphere. Here the authors,… show more Connor J. Clarke, Jemma A. Gibbard & Basile F. E. Curchod Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access In-situ transfer vat photopolymerization for transparent microfluidic device fabrication Despite many advantages of vat photopolymerization in microfluidic device fabrication, well-controlled μm-sized… show more Yang Xu, Fangjie Qi & Yong Chen Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Facet-dependent electrooxidation of propylene into propylene oxide over Ag3PO4 crystals The electrooxidation of propylene into propylene oxide is important in many industrial sectors. Here, the authors… show more Jingwen Ke, Jiankang Zhao & Zhigang Geng Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Waveguide coupled III-V photodiodes monolithically integrated on Si To realize on-chip optical communication schemes based on silicon, the integration of waveguides onto III-V… show more Pengyan Wen, Preksha Tiwari & Kirsten E. Moselund Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Ammonia pools in zeolites for direct fabrication of catalytic centers Reduction process is a key step to fabricate metal zeolite catalysts, but existing reduction technologies are… show more Jie Yao, Yingluo He & Noritatsu Tsubaki Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Visible light-driven efficient palladium catalyst turnover in oxidative transformations within confined frameworks Pd(II) catalyst turnover by reoxidation of a low valent Pd species is the key step for a Pd(II) catalyzed… show more Jiawei Li, Liuqing He & Huanfeng Jiang Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Density of states prediction for materials discovery via contrastive learning from probabilistic embeddings Electrons and phonons give rise to important properties of materials. The machine learning framework Mat2Spec… show more Shufeng Kong, Francesco Ricci & John M. Gregoire Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Charge-noise spectroscopy of Si/SiGe quantum dots via dynamically-decoupled exchange oscillations Charge noise is a major limitation to achieving high-fidelity quantum gate performance with semiconductor qubits.… show more Elliot J. Connors, J. Nelson & John M. Nichol Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Observational evidence of ring current in the magnetosphere of Mercury Ring currents have been observed in the magnetospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. Here, the authors show… show more J.-T. Zhao, Q.-G. Zong & Y. Wei Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Designing light-element materials with large effective spin-orbit coupling For materials composed of light elements the spin-orbit interaction is typically weak, due to their low atomic… show more Jiayu Li, Qiushi Yao & Qihang Liu Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Superresolution concentration measurement realized by sub-shot-noise absorption spectroscopy Here, the authors use entangled photon pairs as the light source for absorption spectroscopy and demonstrate… show more Korenobu Matsuzaki & Tahei Tahara Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Antiferromagnetic excitonic insulator state in Sr3Ir2O7 Antiferromagnetic excitonic insulators are a distinct form of excitonic insulator, in which electrons and holes… show more D. G. Mazzone, Y. Shen & M. P. M. Dean Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Filling the gap between topological insulator nanomaterials and triboelectric nanogenerators Triboelectric nanogenerators have shown promising potential towards self-powered wearable electronics and… show more Mengjiao Li, Hong-Wei Lu & Ying-Chih Lai Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Atomically unveiling the structure-activity relationship of biomacromolecule-metal-organic frameworks symbiotic crystal Biomolecule-metal-organic-frameworks allow for the creation of hybrid materials with desired biological and… show more Linjing Tong, Siming Huang & Gangfeng Ouyang Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Structure units oriented approach towards collective synthesis of sarpagine-ajmaline-koumine type alkaloids The sarpagine-ajmaline-koumine type alkaloids are among the most important groups of monoterpenoid indole… show more Wen Chen, Yonghui Ma & Hongbin Zhang Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Chemical reversible crosslinking enables measurement of RNA 3D distances and alternative conformations in cells Determination of RNA 3D structures in vivo is a challenging problem. Here, the authors describe a chemical… show more Ryan Van Damme, Kongpan Li & Willem A. Velema Article 17 February 2022 | Open Access Photodissociation of particulate nitrate as a source of daytime tropospheric Cl2 This study unravels an important daytime Cl2 source in the extra-polar atmosphere and shows that photolysis of… show more Xiang Peng, Tao Wang & Jianmin Chen Article 16 February 2022 | Open Access Large-gap insulating dimer ground state in monolayer IrTe2 The interplay between reduced dimensionality and interactions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides has… show more Jinwoong Hwang, Kyoo Kim & Sung-Kwan Mo Article 16 February 2022 | Open Access Quantum algorithmic measurement Applying the language of computational complexity to study real-world experiments requires a rigorous framework.… show more Dorit Aharonov, Jordan Cotler & Xiao-Liang Qi Article 16 February 2022 | Open Access Spatially resolved fluorescence of caesium lead halide perovskite supercrystals reveals quasi-atomic behavior of nanocrystals By utilizing spatially resolved fluorescence (-lifetime) measurements and high precision X-ray nanodiffraction,… show more Dmitry Lapkin, Christopher Kirsch & Ivan A. Vartanyants Article 16 February 2022 | Open Access Non-thermal plasma-assisted rapid hydrogenolysis of polystyrene to high yield ethylene Current recycling methods suffer from harsh reaction conditions and long reaction times. Here the authors show a… show more Libo Yao, Jaelynne King & Zhenmeng Peng Article 16 February 2022 | Open Access An efficient urine peptidomics workflow identifies chemically defined dietary gluten peptides from patients with celiac disease Gluten peptides from wheat enter the bloodstream and are excreted in urine but are yet to be chemically… show more Brad A. Palanski, Nielson Weng & Joshua E. Elias Article 15 February 2022 | Open Access Binding events through the mutual synchronization of spintronic nano-neurons Spin-torque nano-oscillators have sparked interest for their potential in neuromorphic computing, however… show more Miguel Romera, Philippe Talatchian & Julie Grollier Article 15 February 2022 | Open Access Data-driven modeling and prediction of non-linearizable dynamics via spectral submanifolds Current data-driven modelling techniques perform reliably on linear systems or on those that can be linearized.… show more Mattia Cenedese, Joar Axås & George Haller Article 14 February 2022 | Open Access All-optical dissipative discrete time crystals Discrete time crystals are described by a subharmonic response with respect to an external drive and have been… show more Hossein Taheri, Andrey B. Matsko & Krzysztof Sacha Article 14 February 2022 | Open Access Rhodium hydride enabled enantioselective intermolecular C–H silylation to access acyclic stereogenic Si–H Construction of chiral organosilicon compounds could have implications in photophysical, biological, and chemical… show more Kun An, Wenpeng Ma & Wei He Article 14 February 2022 | Open Access Partially sintered copper‒ceria as excellent catalyst for the high-temperature reverse water gas shift reaction Constructing stable active sites in catalysts for high temperature catalytic reactions remains challenging. Here,… show more Hao-Xin Liu, Shan-Qing Li & Chun-Jiang Jia Article 14 February 2022 | Open Access Electro-mechanically switchable hydrocarbons based on [8]annulenes Pure hydrocarbons with properties that can be switched by external stimuli are interesting for the design and… show more Magdalena Tasić, Jakov Ivković & Daniel Strand Article 14 February 2022 | Open Access Enantioselective Cu(I)-catalyzed borylative cyclization of enone-tethered cyclohexadienones and mechanistic insights Rapidly building molecular structures with both elements of complexity and flexibility is a key goal of organic… show more Sandip B. Jadhav, Soumya Ranjan Dash & Rambabu Chegondi Article 14 February 2022 | Open Access Highly efficient and salt rejecting solar evaporation via a wick-free confined water layer Solar evaporation is promising for sustainable freshwater production but typically limited by salt accumulation.… show more Lenan Zhang, Xiangyu Li & Evelyn N. Wang Article 11 February 2022 | Open Access Ultrafast charge transfer dynamics in 2D covalent organic frameworks/Re-complex hybrid photocatalyst Re complexes within covalent organic frameworks have emerged as promising photocatalysts for CO2 reduction. Here,… show more Qinying Pan, Mohamed Abdellah & Kaibo Zheng Article 11 February 2022 | Open Access Decoding reactive structures in dilute alloy catalysts Rational catalyst design is crucial toward achieving more energy-efficient and sustainable catalytic processes.… show more Nicholas Marcella, Jin Soo Lim & Anatoly I. Frenkel Article 11 February 2022 | Open Access Analysis of vibronic coupling in a 4f molecular magnet with FIRMS For molecular magnets and qubits, coupling between vibrations and electronic spins has a strong influence on spin… show more Jon G. C. Kragskow, Jonathan Marbey & Nicholas F. Chilton Article 11 February 2022 | Open Access Data-informed discovery of hydrolytic nanozymes Developing hydrolytic nanozymes remains challenging. Here the authors present a rational methodology to design… show more Sirong Li, Zijun Zhou & Hui Wei Article 11 February 2022 | Open Access Time- and site-resolved kinetic NMR for real-time monitoring of off-equilibrium reactions by 2D spectrotemporal correlations Time-resolved NMR spectra provide unique structural and dynamical information, but their measurement in systems… show more Michael J. Jaroszewicz, Mengxiao Liu & Lucio Frydman Article 11 February 2022 | Open Access Deep learning-based high-accuracy quantitation for lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration from MRI Globally, as a major public health problem, low back pain has been the leading cause of disability worldwide for… show more Hua-Dong Zheng, Yue-Li Sun & Yong-Jun Wang Article 11 February 2022 | Open Access Micro-mechanical blood clot testing using smartphones Therapy with anticoagulants requires frequent monitoring. Here the authors describe a proof-of-concept study of a… show more Justin Chan, Kelly Michaelsen & Shyamnath Gollakota Article 11 February 2022 | Open Access Colocalized, bidirectional optogenetic modulations in freely behaving mice with a wireless dual-color optoelectronic probe Simultaneous neural activation and inhibition in the same brain region of animals is highly desirable. Here the… show more Lizhu Li, Lihui Lu & Xing Sheng Article 10 February 2022 | Open Access Dissolving salt is not equivalent to applying a pressure on water By advanced machine learning techniques, first-principles simulations find that dissolving salt in water does not… show more Chunyi Zhang, Shuwen Yue & Xifan Wu Article 10 February 2022 | Open Access Tailoring the coercive field in ferroelectric metal-free perovskites by hydrogen bonding All-organic perovskites exhibit structural tunability and solution-processability, but are disadvantaged by a… show more Hwa Seob Choi, Shunning Li & Kian Ping Loh Article 10 February 2022 | Open Access Optical van-der-Waals forces in molecules: from electronic Bethe-Salpeter calculations to the many-body dispersion model The authors devise an efficient quantum approach to address the van der Waals interactions due to… show more Alberto Ambrosetti, Paolo Umari & Alexandre Tkatchenko Article 10 February 2022 | Open Access Unconventional excited-state dynamics in the concerted benzyl (C7H7) radical self-reaction to anthracene (C14H10) The reaction of benzyl radical self-reaction to anthracene opens-up a previously overlooked avenue for a more… show more Ralf. I. Kaiser, Long Zhao & Alexander M. Mebel Article 10 February 2022 | Open Access Bioinspired desaturation of alcohols enabled by photoredox proton-coupled electron transfer and cobalt dual catalysis Dehydrogenative reactions can provide alkenes, which are among the most useful handles for synthetic organic… show more Long Huang, Tengfei Ji & Magnus Rueping Article 10 February 2022 | Open Access Associative detachment in anion-atom reactions involving a dipole-bound electron Associative electronic detachment (AED) reactions of anions play a key role in many natural processes. Here,… show more Saba Zia Hassan, Jonas Tauch & Matthias Weidemüller