Stopping molecular rotation using coherent ultra-low-energy magnetic manipulations Manipulating the rotational motions of molecules may provide a tool for controlling chemical processes. Here the… show more Helen Chadwick, Mark F. Somers & Gil Alexandrowicz Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Printable logic circuits comprising self-assembled protein complexes Proteins are promising molecular materials for next-generation electronic devices. Here, the authors fabricated… show more Xinkai Qiu & Ryan C. Chiechi Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Enabling high energy lithium metal batteries via single-crystal Ni-rich cathode material co-doping strategy Li-ion cathode active materials are transitioning from poly- to single-crystal structures. However, the… show more Xing Ou, Tongchao Liu & Jun Lu Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Vertically stacked, low-voltage organic ternary logic circuits including nonvolatile floating-gate memory transistors High-density information processing without increasing the circuit complexity is highly desired in electronics.… show more Junhwan Choi, Changhyeon Lee & Sung Gap Im Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access An efficient approach to angular tricyclic molecular architecture via Nazarov-like cyclization and double ring-expansion cascade Effective methods for accessing polycarbocycles are scarcely reported and generally involve complex, multistep… show more Yun-Peng Wang, Kun Fang & Tian Ke Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Comprehensive view of microscopic interactions between DNA-coated colloids A quantitative prediction of DNA-mediated interactions between colloids is crucial to the design of colloidal… show more Fan Cui, Sophie Marbach & David J. Pine Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Ultrasensitive barocaloric material for room-temperature solid-state refrigeration A small driving pressure is desirable for practical application of barocaloric materials. Here, the authors… show more Qingyong Ren, Ji Qi & Bing Li Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Efficient and stable noble-metal-free catalyst for acidic water oxidation While acidic water splitting offers a renewable means to obtain renewable hydrogen fuel, the catalysts needed to… show more Sanjiang Pan, Hao Li & Xiaodan Zhang Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Implementing in-situ self-organizing maps with memristor crossbar arrays for data mining and optimization Self-organizing maps are data mining tools for unsupervised learning algorithms dealing with big data problems.… show more Rui Wang, Tuo Shi & Ming Liu Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Remote and precise control over morphology and motion of organic crystals by using magnetic field Elastic organic crystals are the materials foundation of future lightweight flexible electronic, optical and… show more Xuesong Yang, Linfeng Lan & Hongyu Zhang Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Solid surface frustrated Lewis pair constructed on layered AlOOH for hydrogenation reaction Designing heterogeneous solid surface frustrated Lewis pair (ssFLP) catalyst for hydrogenation is a new challenge… show more Shulin Liu, Minghua Dong & Buxing Han Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Experimental evidence of tetrahedral symmetry breaking in SiO2 glass under pressure Understanding the structural origin of the anomalous properties of SiO2 liquid and glass at high pressures is… show more Yoshio Kono, Koji Ohara & Makina Yabashi Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Topological surface currents accessed through reversible hydrogenation of the three-dimensional bulk Hydrogen can be incorporated within a solid and drastically modify its electronic and structural state. Here, the… show more Haiming Deng, Lukas Zhao & Lia Krusin-Elbaum Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access A sustainable ultra-high strength Fe18Mn3Ti maraging steel through controlled solute segregation and α-Mn nanoprecipitation Recent demands to design alloys in a more sustainable way have discouraged the use of critical elements that are… show more A. Kwiatkowski da Silva, I. R. Souza Filho & D. Raabe Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Switchable bifunctional molecular recognition in water using a pH-responsive Endo-functionalized cavity The development of synthetic host-guest systems for stimuli-responsive molecular recognition in water is… show more Xiaoping Wang, Mao Quan & Wei Jiang Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Discovery of quantum phases in the Shastry-Sutherland compound SrCu2(BO3)2 under extreme conditions of field and pressure SrCu2(BO3)2 is a 2D quantum antiferromagnet on a particular frustrated lattice showing multiple magnetization… show more Zhenzhong Shi, Sachith Dissanayake & Sara Haravifard Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Two-photon-absorbing ruthenium complexes enable near infrared light-driven photocatalysis The field of homogeneous metal- and photocatalysis typically uses one-photon-absorbing photosensitizers, which… show more Guanqun Han, Guodong Li & Yujie Sun Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Experimental demonstration of continuous quantum error correction Continuous quantum error correction requires less ancillary resources compared to standard QEC methods. Here, the… show more William P. Livingston, Machiel S. Blok & Irfan Siddiqi Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Determining the depth of surface charging layer of single Prussian blue nanoparticles with pseudocapacitive behaviors The surface charging layer in nanomaterials, which determines their pseudocapacitive behavior, is challenging to… show more Ben Niu, Wenxuan Jiang & Wei Wang Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Quadrupolar magnetic excitations in an isotropic spin-1 antiferromagnet Multipolar magnetic excitations are challenging to measure as most experimental probes are sensitive to dipolar… show more A. Nag, A. Nocera & Ke-Jin Zhou Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Reactant-induced photoactivation of in situ generated organogold intermediates leading to alkynylated indoles via Csp2-Csp cross-coupling Dual photo- and metal-catalysis is generally not well-understood when the metal catalyst is a gold complex. Here… show more Fen Zhao, Mehdi Abdellaoui & Louis Fensterbank Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Kidney epithelial cells are active mechano-biological fluid pumps How mechanical forces drive fluid transport in the kidney remains unclear. Here, the authors use a microfluidic… show more Mohammad Ikbal Choudhury, Yizeng Li & Sean X. Sun Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access A reversibly gated protein-transporting membrane channel made of DNA Artificial systems to control the transport of molecules across biomembranes can be useful for biosensing or drug… show more Swarup Dey, Adam Dorey & Hao Yan Article 28 April 2022 | Open Access Evanescent scattering imaging of single protein binding kinetics and DNA conformation changes Single molecule detection based on evanescent illumination usually require specially designed nanomaterials.… show more Pengfei Zhang, Lei Zhou & Shaopeng Wang Article 27 April 2022 | Open Access Production of fast-charge Zn-based aqueous batteries via interfacial adsorption of ion-oligomer complexes Aqueous zinc batteries attract interest because of their potential for cost-effective and safe electricity… show more Shuo Jin, Jiefu Yin & Lynden A. Archer Article 27 April 2022 | Open Access Data-driven capacity estimation of commercial lithium-ion batteries from voltage relaxation Accurate capacity estimation is crucial for lithium-ion batteries' reliable and safe operation. Here, the authors… show more Jiangong Zhu, Yixiu Wang & Helmut Ehrenberg Article 27 April 2022 | Open Access A synergistic strategy to develop photostable and bright dyes with long Stokes shift for nanoscopy Super-resolution microscopy is a powerful tool for cellular studies but requires bright and stable fluorescent… show more Gangwei Jiang, Tian-Bing Ren & Lin Yuan Article 27 April 2022 | Open Access Superstretchable, yet stiff, fatigue-resistant ligament-like elastomers Stiffness, toughness, and fatigue resistance are seemingly incompatible in materials design. Here the authors… show more Mengxue Li, Lili Chen & Chao Wang Article 27 April 2022 | Open Access Three-dimensional structure determination of protein complexes using matrix-landing mass spectrometry Mass spectrometry (MS) is a powerful tool for the structural characterization of protein complexes. Here the… show more Michael S. Westphall, Kenneth W. Lee & Joshua J. Coon Article 27 April 2022 | Open Access The initial charge separation step in oxygenic photosynthesis The photosystem II reaction center (PSII-RC) is a model system to understand the initial steps of photosynthesis,… show more Yusuke Yoneda, Eric A. Arsenault & Graham R. Fleming Article 27 April 2022 | Open Access The formation of Haumea and its family via binary merging Formation of the Haumea family, the only collisional group of icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, is debated. Here,… show more Benjamin Proudfoot & Darin Ragozzine Article 27 April 2022 | Open Access Universality of Dicke superradiance in arrays of quantum emitters Dicke superradiance is an important collective quantum phenomenon, but its analysis is hindered by the… show more Stuart J. Masson & Ana Asenjo-Garcia Article 27 April 2022 | Open Access α-Clustering in atomic nuclei from first principles with statistical learning and the Hoyle state character Alpha particles are considered the building blocks for some nuclei in alpha-clustering. Here the authors discuss… show more T. Otsuka, T. Abe & H. Ueno Article 27 April 2022 | Open Access Foldamers reveal and validate therapeutic targets associated with toxic α-synuclein self-assembly Inhibiting alpha-synuclein self-assembly into amyloid structures, associated with Parkinson’s disease, is a… show more Jemil Ahmed, Tessa C. Fitch & Sunil Kumar Article 26 April 2022 | Open Access Automated exploitation of the big configuration space of large adsorbates on transition metals reveals chemistry feasibility The discovery of heterogeneous catalysts for large molecule conversion has been lagging due to the combinatorial… show more Geun Ho Gu, Miriam Lee & Dionisios G. Vlachos Article 26 April 2022 | Open Access Excitations in a superconducting Coulombic energy gap The fate of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in the presence of a strong Coulomb repulsion in a superconductor remains… show more Juan Carlos Estrada Saldaña, Alexandros Vekris & Jesper Nygård Article 26 April 2022 | Open Access Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in a random driven chemical system “A hallmark of living systems is their homochirality, the selection of specific mirror symmetry in their… show more William D. Piñeros & Tsvi Tlusty Article 26 April 2022 | Open Access Coacervation in polyzwitterion-polyelectrolyte systems and their potential applications for gastrointestinal drug delivery platforms Coacervation is widely studied as potential drug delivery platform, but formation of coacervates at lower pH… show more Khatcher O. Margossian, Marcel U. Brown & Murugappan Muthukumar Article 26 April 2022 | Open Access Chalcogenide optomemristors for multi-factor neuromorphic computation Some types of machine learning rely on the interaction between multiple signals, which requires new devices for… show more Syed Ghazi Sarwat, Timoleon Moraitis & Harish Bhaskaran Article 26 April 2022 | Open Access High-mobility semiconducting polymers with different spin ground states Semiconducting polymers with high-spin at their neutral ground state are rarely reported. Here the authors… show more Xiao-Xiang Chen, Jia-Tong Li & Ting Lei Article 26 April 2022 | Open Access Investigating the upper bound of high-frequency electromagnetic waves on unshielded twisted copper pairs This paper establishes a physical limit on the ability of the ubiquitous twisted pairs to support high speed… show more Ergin Dinc, Syed Sheheryar Bukhari & Eloy de Lera Acedo Article 26 April 2022 | Open Access An osmium-peroxo complex for photoactive therapy of hypoxic tumors Photodynamic therapy has been a promising technique for the treatment of tumours. In this manuscript, the authors… show more Nong Lu, Zhihong Deng & Pingyu Zhang Article 26 April 2022 | Open Access Microrobot collectives with reconfigurable morphologies, behaviors, and functions Reconfigurability at the micro-scale is rare. Here, authors present a versatile magnetic microrobot collective… show more Gaurav Gardi, Steven Ceron & Metin Sitti Article 26 April 2022 | Open Access Nanosecond optical switching and control system for data center networks Several challenges still impede the deployment of optical switches in data centers. The authors report an optical… show more Xuwei Xue & Nicola Calabretta Article 26 April 2022 | Open Access Nanocrown electrodes for parallel and robust intracellular recording of cardiomyocytes Nanoelectrodes for measuring intracellular action potentials suffer from issues with success rate, signal… show more Zeinab Jahed, Yang Yang & Bianxiao Cui Article 26 April 2022 | Open Access Identifying the wide diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine nucleobases in carbonaceous meteorites All DNA/RNA nucleobases were identified in carbonaceous meteorites. Having been provided to the early Earth as a… show more Yasuhiro Oba, Yoshinori Takano & Hiroshi Naraoka Article 25 April 2022 | Open Access Brillouin Klein bottle from artificial gauge fields Topological states are exploited based on crystalline symmetry, but under artificial gauge fields, symmetries may… show more Z. Y. Chen, Shengyuan A. Yang & Y. X. Zhao Article 25 April 2022 | Open Access An unexpected strategy to alleviate hypoxia limitation of photodynamic therapy by biotinylation of photosensitizers Type I photodynamic therapy (PDT) sensitizers show good hypoxia tolerance but only few strategies are available… show more Jing An, Shanliang Tang & Wen-Heng Zheng Article 25 April 2022 | Open Access Unveiling the charge transfer dynamics steered by built-in electric fields in BiOBr photocatalysts While internal electric fields alter charge-separation dynamics in solar-to-chemical conversions, a greater… show more Zhishan Luo, Xiaoyuan Ye & Xinchen Wang Article 25 April 2022 | Open Access Analytical solution for nonadiabatic quantum annealing to arbitrary Ising spin Hamiltonian The computational capabilities of quantum annealing in the accessible regimes of operation are still subject to… show more Bin Yan & Nikolai A. Sinitsyn