Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access Lateral growth of cylinders Precise control of the microstructure of nanomaterials is of interest but living lateral growth of cylinders is… show more Hui Sun, Shuai Chen & Jianzhong Du Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access Toward azo-linked covalent organic frameworks by developing linkage chemistry via linker exchange Exploring new linkage chemistry for covalent organic frameworks (COFs) provides a strong driving force to promote… show more Zhi-Bei Zhou, Peng-Ju Tian & Xin Zhao Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access Digitally-embroidered liquid metal electronic textiles for wearable wireless systems Electronic textiles should maintain performance against repeated mechanical, thermal and chemical stresses during… show more Rongzhou Lin, Han-Joon Kim & John S. Ho Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access Cooperative catalysis by a single-atom enzyme-metal complex Single atom catalysts have been described for efficient and selective metal catalysis, while enzymes have been… show more Xiaoyang Li, Yufei Cao & Jun Ge Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access Multivariate analysis of disorder in metal–organic frameworks Structural disorder in materials is challenging to characterise. Here, the authors use multivariate analysis of… show more Adam F. Sapnik, Irene Bechis & Thomas D. Bennett Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access Activating lattice oxygen in NiFe-based (oxy)hydroxide for water electrolysis While (oxy)hydroxides are effective oxygen evolution electrocatalysts, the impacts of pre-catalyst properties on… show more Zuyun He, Jun Zhang & Yan Chen Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access Curving the space by non-Hermiticity The understanding and control of non-Hermitian phenomena is becoming every day more important. Here the authors… show more Chenwei Lv, Ren Zhang & Qi Zhou Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access Red edge effect and chromoselective photocatalysis with amorphous covalent triazine-based frameworks Chromoselective catalysis offers an intriguing opportunity to enable a specific reaction pathway in… show more Yajun Zou, Sara Abednatanzi & Aleksandr Savateev Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access Dual-comb photothermal spectroscopy 'Recent developments in spectroscopy have witnessed the establishment of dual-comb techniques. In this work the… show more Qiang Wang, Zhen Wang & Wei Ren Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access High-entropy induced a glass-to-glass transition in a metallic glass Glass-to-glass transitions can help understanding the glass nature, but it remains difficult to tune metallic… show more Hengwei Luan, Xin Zhang & Ke-Fu Yao Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access Single-layer spatial analog meta-processor for imaging processing Here, the authors propose a Fourier-based metaprocessor to impart customized highly flexible transfer functions… show more Zhuochao Wang, Guangwei Hu & Cheng-Wei Qiu Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access Golgi apparatus-targeted aggregation-induced emission luminogens for effective cancer photodynamic therapy Aggregation induced emission luminogen (AIEgen) based photosensitizers (PSs) have been developed for photodynamic… show more Minglun Liu, Yuncong Chen & Zijian Guo Article 21 April 2022 | Open Access AI-enabled, implantable, multichannel wireless telemetry for photodynamic therapy The efficacy of photodynamic therapy is highly dependent on light delivery to activate a photosensitizer. Here… show more Woo Seok Kim, M. Ibrahim Khot & Sung Il Park Article 20 April 2022 | Open Access Molecular communications in complex systems of dynamic supramolecular polymers The dynamic structure of supramolecular polymers is challenging to determine both in experiments and in… show more Martina Crippa, Claudio Perego & Giovanni M. Pavan Article 20 April 2022 | Open Access Inducing and tuning Kondo screening in a narrow-electronic-band system Non f-electron systems containing narrow electronic band and localized moments are a useful platform to study the… show more Shiwei Shen, Chenhaoping Wen & Shichao Yan Article 20 April 2022 | Open Access Neutron-upscattering enhancement of the triple-alpha process The triple-alpha process plays a role in nucleosynthesis, in the formation of 12C. Here, the authors discuss the… show more J. Bishop, C. E. Parker & C. Wheldon Article 20 April 2022 | Open Access Symmetry collapse due to the presence of multiple local aromaticity in Ge244− Gaining insight on the structural transformations from atomic clusters to bulk materials is challenging. Here the… show more Hong-Lei Xu, Nikolay V. Tkachenko & Zhong-Ming Sun Article 20 April 2022 | Open Access Mn2+-activated dual-wavelength emitting materials toward wearable optical fibre temperature sensor Dual-wavelength emission materials can provide fluorescence intensity ratio technology with self-calibration… show more Enhai Song, Meihua Chen & Qinyuan Zhang Article 20 April 2022 | Open Access Quantum spins and hybridization in artificially-constructed chains of magnetic adatoms on a superconductor Previous studies of magnetic adatom chains on superconducting substrates have mostly focused on the regime of… show more Eva Liebhaber, Lisa M. Rütten & Katharina J. Franke Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Intracavity Raman scattering couples soliton molecules with terahertz phonons Here, the authors demonstrate intra-cavity excitation and time-domain sampling of coherent optical phonons inside… show more Alexandra Völkel, Luca Nimmesgern & Georg Herink Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Full 2π tunable phase modulation using avoided crossing of resonances Though active metasurfaces have been attractive for applications requiring control of optical wavefronts,… show more Ju Young Kim, Juho Park & Min Seok Jang Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Microwave-to-optical conversion with a gallium phosphide photonic crystal cavity A route to scalability for superconducting quantum computation is the modular approach, which however requires… show more Simon Hönl, Youri Popoff & Paul Seidler Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Reaching the highest efficiency of spin Hall effect of light in the near-infrared using all-dielectric metasurfaces Here, Junsuk Rho and co-workers propose and experimentally demonstrate a metasurface supporting a large and… show more Minkyung Kim, Dasol Lee & Junsuk Rho Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Chiral photochemistry of achiral molecules The authors report non-adiabatic first principles molecular dynamics to show how an achiral molecule can be… show more Umberto Raucci, Hayley Weir & Todd J. Martínez Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Mapping the energy level alignment at donor/acceptor interfaces in non-fullerene organic solar cells Energy level alignment (ELA) at donor-acceptor heterojunctions is of vital importance yet largely undetermined in… show more Xian’e Li, Qilun Zhang & Mats Fahlman Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Argyrodite-type advanced lithium conductors and transport mechanisms beyond peddle-wheel effect Fundamental mechanisms governing the superionic behaviour in solid-state Li-ion batteries are under debate. Here… show more Hong Fang & Puru Jena Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Perylenetetracarboxylic acid nanosheets with internal electric fields and anisotropic charge migration for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution While organic semiconductors provide a highly tailorable set of systems for solar-to-fuel conversion, such… show more Yan Guo, Qixin Zhou & Yongfa Zhu Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Bound states at partial dislocation defects in multipole higher-order topological insulators The development of higher-order topological insulators enables robust localization of energy at lower-dimensional… show more Sasha S. Yamada, Tianhe Li & Gaurav Bahl Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Integrated photonic metasystem for image classifications at telecommunication wavelength Metasystem architectures are attractive alternatives to waveguide-based integrated photonic processors due to the… show more Zi Wang, Lorry Chang & Tingyi Gu Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Trilobite-inspired neural nanophotonic light-field camera with extreme depth-of-field Inspired by the optical structure of bifocal compound eyes, the authors demonstrate a nanophotonic light-field… show more Qingbin Fan, Weizhu Xu & Ting Xu Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access The stability of covalent dative bond significantly increases with increasing solvent polarity Non covalent complexes are often considerably destabilized in the solvent. Here the authors combine vibrational… show more Rabindranath Lo, Debashree Manna & Pavel Hobza Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Q-dependent collective relaxation dynamics of glass-forming liquid Ca0.4K0.6(NO3)1.4 investigated by wide-angle neutron spin-echo Length scale dependence is important for understanding the collective relaxation dynamics in glass-forming… show more Peng Luo, Yanqin Zhai & Y Z Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Insights into the activity of single-atom Fe-N-C catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction It is of high importance to understand the origin of single-atom Fe-N4 activity in oxygen reduction reaction.… show more Kang Liu, Junwei Fu & Min Liu Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Engineering a passivating electric double layer for high performance lithium metal batteries Developing an electrolyte that is compatible with both high-voltage cathodes and Li metal anodes has always been… show more Weili Zhang, Yang Lu & Kai Liu Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Controllable photomechanical bending of metal-organic rotaxane crystals facilitated by regioselective confined-space photodimerization The preparation of materials that display macro-mechanical responses to external stimuli is challenging. Here,… show more Jun-shan Geng, Lei Mei & Wei-qun Shi Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Controlling forward and backward rotary molecular motion on demand Being able to control motion at the molecular level is vital for many future developments in the molecular… show more L. Pfeifer, S. Crespi & B. L. Feringa Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Installation of synergistic binding sites onto porous organic polymers for efficient removal of perfluorooctanoic acid The performance of adsorbents for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) removal often suffers from long equilibrium… show more Xiongli Liu, Changjia Zhu & Shengqian Ma Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Room temperature all-solid-state lithium batteries based on a soluble organic cage ionic conductor While solid-state batteries offer higher energy densities than liquid-based batteries, such devices require… show more Jing Li, Jizhen Qi & Liwei Chen Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Anisotropy-driven quantum criticality in an intermediate valence system The nature of quantum criticality in intermetallic f-electron compounds exhibiting valence fluctuations is not… show more Mihael S. Grbić, Eoin C. T. O’Farrell & Satoru Nakatsuji Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Two octave supercontinuum generation in a non-silica graded-index multimode fiber Two-octave supercontinuum generation in the femtosecond regime from the visible to mid-infrared and self-cleaning… show more Zahra Eslami, Lauri Salmela & Goëry Genty Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Engineering a local acid-like environment in alkaline medium for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction While catalysts have intrinsic activities toward reactions, such performances often require further optimization.… show more Hao Tan, Bing Tang & Wensheng Yan Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Active and conductive layer stacked superlattices for highly selective CO2 electroreduction It is important yet challenging to improve the interface contact between commonly used carbon conductive layer… show more Junyuan Duan, Tianyang Liu & Tianyou Zhai Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Skeletal Ni electrode-catalyzed C-O cleavage of diaryl ethers entails direct elimination via benzyne intermediates Biomass conversion holds promise as a more sustainable source of platform chemicals, but limitations in the ways… show more Yuting Zhou, Grace E. Klinger & James E. Jackson Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Structural transformation and catalytic hydrogenation activity of amidinate-protected copper hydride clusters Copper hydrides have been studied for their exciting structural chemistry and applications in hydrogenation… show more Chun-Yu Liu, Shang-Fu Yuan & Quan-Ming Wang Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access A new dimension for magnetosensitive e-skins: active matrix integrated micro-origami sensor arrays State-of-the-art magnetic skins can only sense in one or two-dimensions, at small spatial resolutions. By… show more Christian Becker, Bin Bao & Oliver G. Schmidt Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Fast encirclement of an exceptional point for highly efficient and compact chiral mode converters Chiral mode converters are found in a wide range of practical applications in optics, but the previous proposals… show more Xiaoqian Shu, Aodong Li & Lin Chen Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Using automated synthesis to understand the role of side chains on molecular charge transport Development of organic electronic materials relies on understanding structure-function relationships in… show more Songsong Li, Edward R. Jira & Charles M. Schroeder Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Low energy carbon capture via electrochemically induced pH swing with electrochemical rebalancing This work demonstrates a safe and scalable electrochemical CO2 separation method that allows promisingly low (62… show more Shijian Jin, Min Wu & Michael J. Aziz Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Topological phase singularities in atomically thin high-refractive-index materials The authors combine films of two-dimensional semiconductors, which exhibit excitonic spectral features, with… show more Georgy Ermolaev, Kirill Voronin & Valentyn Volkov Article 19 April 2022 | Open Access Challenges and limits of mechanical stability in 3D direct laser writing Direct laser writing is an effective technique for fabrication of complex 3D polymer networks using ultrashort… show more Elaheh Sedghamiz, Modan Liu & Wolfgang Wenzel