20 May 2022 | Open Access Entropy and crystal-facet modulation of P2-type layered cathodes for long-lasting sodium-based batteries The use of Mn-rich layered cathodes in Na-based batteries is hindered by inadequate cycling reversibility and… show more Fang Fu, Xiang Liu & Gui-Liang Xu Article 20 May 2022 | Open Access Free charge photogeneration in a single component high photovoltaic efficiency organic semiconductor When light hits organic semiconductors, bound charge pairs, called excitons, are usually produced. Here, the… show more Michael B. Price, Paul A. Hume & Justin M. Hodgkiss Article 20 May 2022 | Open Access Parts–per–million of ruthenium catalyze the selective chain–walking reaction of terminal alkenes The chain-walking of terminal alkenes is an industrially relevant reaction. Here, the authors show that… show more Sergio Sanz-Navarro, Marta Mon & Antonio Leyva-Pérez Article 20 May 2022 | Open Access Formation of organic color centers in air-suspended carbon nanotubes using vapor-phase reaction Organic color centers in single-walled carbon nanotubes can act as single-photon sources in the telecom range.… show more Daichi Kozawa, Xiaojian Wu & Yuichiro K. Kato Article 20 May 2022 | Open Access Exceptionally high work density of a ferroelectric dynamic organic crystal around room temperature Organic electronics requires dynamic materials, however, most of them have small strokes and operate at high… show more Durga Prasad Karothu, Rodrigo Ferreira & Panče Naumov Article 20 May 2022 | Open Access Predicting the failure of two-dimensional silica glasses The sheer number of parameters in deep learning makes the physical interpretation of failure predictions in… show more Francesc Font-Clos, Marco Zanchi & Stefano Zapperi Article 20 May 2022 | Open Access Nanoparticle-enhanced radiotherapy synergizes with PD-L1 blockade to limit post-surgical cancer recurrence and metastasis Tumor recurrence after surgical resection is associated with a poor clinical outcome. Here the authors design a… show more Xin Guan, Liping Sun & Wenwen Yue Article 20 May 2022 | Open Access Memory, switches, and an OR-port through bistability in chemically fueled crystals In biology, information is stored and processed using highly evolved molecules in bistable states. Here, the… show more Fabian Schnitter, Benedikt Rieß & Job Boekhoven Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Production of a hybrid capacitive storage device via hydrogen gas and carbon electrodes coupling Conventional electric double-layer capacitors show limited energy content for energy storage applications. Here,… show more Zhengxin Zhu, Zaichun Liu & Wei Chen Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Scalable super hygroscopic polymer films for sustainable moisture harvesting in arid environments Extracting atmospheric water is a sustainable strategy to enable decentralized access to safely managed water but… show more Youhong Guo, Weixin Guan & Guihua Yu Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Intermolecular 2+2 imine-olefin photocycloadditions enabled by Cu(I)-alkene MLCT An ideal method to construct azetidines would be through a [2 + 2] photocycloaddition that joins an olefin and an… show more Daniel M. Flores, Michael L. Neville & Valerie A. Schmidt Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access From radial to unidirectional water pumping in zeta-potential modulated Nafion nanostructures Chemically propelled micropumps are wireless fluid flow driving systems with many potential applications. Here,… show more María J. Esplandiu, David Reguera & Jordi Fraxedas Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Defect-gradient-induced Rashba effect in van der Waals PtSe2 layers Materials with strong Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling hold promise for spintronic applications and the… show more Junhyeon Jo, Jung Hwa Kim & Jung-Woo Yoo Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access High-performance photocatalytic nonoxidative conversion of methane to ethane and hydrogen by heteroatoms-engineered TiO2 Photocatalytic nonoxidative coupling of methane (NOCM) emerges as an appealing approach for the production of… show more Wenqing Zhang, Cenfeng Fu & Yujie Xiong Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Addressing the quantitative conversion bottleneck in single-atom catalysis The practical application of single atom catalyst (SAC) in liquid-phase heterogeneous catalysis is hampered by… show more Zhongxin Chen, Jingting Song & Kian Ping Loh Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Multimodal confined water dynamics in reverse osmosis polyamide membranes Polymeric membranes are extensively used in water desalination, but the effect of membrane nanostructure on water… show more Fabrizia Foglia, Bernhard Frick & João T. Cabral Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Structural colour enhanced microfluidics Organized microfibrillation can be used to optically printing well-defined porosity with high resolution into… show more Detao Qin, Andrew H. Gibbons & Easan Sivaniah Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Structural transition and re-emergence of iron's total electron spin in (Mg,Fe)O at ultrahigh pressure Iron spin transition occurs at ultrahigh pressure. The total electron spin increases from 0 to 1 as the… show more Han Hsu & Koichiro Umemoto Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access A bio-functional polymer that prevents retinal scarring through modulation of NRF2 signalling pathway One common cause of vision loss after retinal detachment surgery is retinal scarring. Here the authors… show more Bhav Harshad Parikh, Zengping Liu & Xinyi Su Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Shape and structural relaxation of colloidal tactoids Tactoids, consisting of micro-confined liquid crystalline colloids with self-selected shape, bear both… show more Hamed Almohammadi, Sayyed Ahmad Khadem & Raffaele Mezzenga Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Simultaneous emulation of synaptic and intrinsic plasticity using a memristive synapse Synaptic plasticity and neuronal intrinsic plasticity are both involved in the learning process of hardware… show more Sang Hyun Sung, Tae Jin Kim & Keon Jae Lee Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Analog–digital hybrid computing with SnS2 memtransistor for low-powered sensor fusion Analog–digital hybrid computing based on SnS2 memtransistors is demonstrated for lowpower sensor fusion in… show more Shania Rehman, Muhammad Farooq Khan & Sungho Kim Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Anomalous size effect on yield strength enabled by compositional heterogeneity in high-entropy alloy nanoparticles Compositional heterogeneity in high-entropy alloys (HEAs) has gained lots of attention, but its relation with the… show more Jingyuan Yan, Sheng Yin & Qian Yu Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Assembly and coherent control of a register of nuclear spin qubits In large qubit registers, long coherence times and individual qubit control are difficult to achieve at the same… show more Katrina Barnes, Peter Battaglino & Michael Yarwood Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access A new class of bilayer kagome lattice compounds with Dirac nodal lines and pressure-induced superconductivity Kagome lattices composed of transition-metal ions have recently attracted great interest. Here, the authors… show more Mengzhu Shi, Fanghang Yu & Xianhui Chen Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Exciton transport in molecular organic semiconductors boosted by transient quantum delocalization Improving exciton diffusion in molecular materials is an important goal in materials science. Here, Giannini et… show more Samuele Giannini, Wei-Tao Peng & Jochen Blumberger Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Reversing insufficient photothermal therapy-induced tumor relapse and metastasis by regulating cancer-associated fibroblasts Photothermal therapy (PTT) has emerged as a promising approach for cancer treatment. Here, in preclinical cancer… show more Xin Li, Tuying Yong & Xiangliang Yang Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Fast raster-scan optoacoustic mesoscopy enables assessment of human melanoma microvasculature in vivo Raster-Scanning-Optoacoustic Mesoscopy can be used to image the vasculature in skin cancer lesions but is limited… show more Hailong He, Christine Schönmann & Vasilis Ntziachristos Article 19 May 2022 | Open Access Templated folding of the RTX domain of the bacterial toxin adenylate cyclase revealed by single molecule force spectroscopy The authors use optical tweezers to show that the folding of repeats-in-toxin (RTX) block-iv in adenylate cyclase… show more Han Wang, Guojun Chen & Hongbin Li Article 18 May 2022 | Open Access SulfoxFluor-enabled deoxyazidation of alcohols with NaN3 Azides are common moieties in chemical synthesis. Here the authors present a methodology to synthesize alkyl… show more Junkai Guo, Xiu Wang & Jinbo Hu Article 18 May 2022 | Open Access Steering the reaction pathway of syngas-to-light olefins with coordination unsaturated sites of ZnGaOx spinel Great progress has been made in the development of bifunctional oxide-zeolite catalysts to tackle the selectivity… show more Na Li, Yifeng Zhu & Xinhe Bao Article 18 May 2022 | Open Access Integrating charge mobility, stability and stretchability within conjugated polymer films for stretchable multifunctional sensors Conjugated polymers are promising semiconductors for stretchable electronic devices but combining important… show more Sung Yun Son, Giwon Lee & Wei You Article 18 May 2022 | Open Access Ultra-compact snapshot spectral light-field imaging The authors demonstrate compact spectral light-field imaging by using a transversely dispersive metalens array… show more Xia Hua, Yujie Wang & Shining Zhu Article 18 May 2022 | Open Access Breaking scaling relationships in alkynol semi-hydrogenation by manipulating interstitial atoms in Pd with d-electron gain Circumventing the linear scaling relationship in the semi-hydrogenation is challenging. Here the authors report a… show more Yang Yang, Xiaojuan Zhu & Ying Wan Article 18 May 2022 | Open Access Highly efficient nonlinear optical emission from a subwavelength crystalline silicon cuboid mediated by supercavity mode Enhancing the efficiency of quantum emitters is essential for exploring new functionalities. Here the authors… show more Mingcheng Panmai, Jin Xiang & Sheng Lan Article 18 May 2022 | Open Access Ultrafast orbital tomography of a pentacene film using time-resolved momentum microscopy at a FEL Ultrafast pulses are useful to investigate the electron dynamics in excited atoms, molecules and other complex… show more Kiana Baumgärtner, Marvin Reuner & Markus Scholz Article 18 May 2022 | Open Access Singlet and triplet to doublet energy transfer: improving organic light-emitting diodes with radicals Organic light-emitting diodes must be engineered to circumvent efficiency limits imposed by the ratio of triplet… show more Feng Li, Alexander J. Gillett & Emrys W. Evans Article 18 May 2022 | Open Access Mechanistic insights into photochemical nickel-catalyzed cross-couplings enabled by energy transfer Although the combination of photo- and nickel catalysis has garnered intense interest in the preceding years, the… show more Rajesh Kancherla, Krishnamoorthy Muralirajan & Magnus Rueping Article 18 May 2022 | Open Access Extensible and self-recoverable proteinaceous materials derived from scallop byssal thread Bio-inspired materials are an intense area of study as researchers try to adapt biomaterials for other… show more Xiaokang Zhang, Mengkui Cui & Weizhi Liu Article 18 May 2022 | Open Access Rectification and confinement of photokinetic bacteria in an optical feedback loop Light can be used to precisely modulate the speed of active particles in space and time. Here, the authors… show more Helena Massana-Cid, Claudio Maggi & Roberto Di Leonardo Article 18 May 2022 | Open Access Chiral emergence in multistep hierarchical assembly of achiral conjugated polymers Chiral assembly of achiral building blocks can engender properties without resorting to complex stereochemistry.… show more Kyung Sun Park, Zhengyuan Xue & Ying Diao Article 17 May 2022 | Open Access Theory-guided design of hydrogen-bonded cobaltoporphyrin frameworks for highly selective electrochemical H2O2 production in acid Guided by high-throughput computational screening, we report the preparation of hydrogen-bonded cobaltoporphyrin… show more Xuan Zhao, Qi Yin & Yanguang Li Article 17 May 2022 | Open Access Dynamically actuated soft heliconical architecture via frequency of electric fields Frequency responsiveness within a broad dynamic range in adaptive systems while also reducing high-frequency… show more Binghui Liu, Cong-Long Yuan & Quan Li Article 17 May 2022 | Open Access Zeolite-confined subnanometric PtSn mimicking mortise-and-tenon joinery for catalytic propane dehydrogenation The atomic structure of heterogeneous catalysts is usually a blackbox. Here the authors demonstrate large-scale… show more Sicong Ma & Zhi-Pan Liu Article 17 May 2022 | Open Access Intelligent wireless theranostic contact lens for electrical sensing and regulation of intraocular pressure Towards intelligent treatment for glaucoma, here authors demonstrate integrated wireless theranostic contact… show more Cheng Yang, Qianni Wu & Xi Xie Article 17 May 2022 | Open Access Targeted detection of cancer at the cellular level during biopsy by near-infrared confocal laser endomicroscopy Radiography identifies suspicious lung nodules that are not always easy to diagnose via biopsy. Here, the authors… show more Gregory T. Kennedy, Feredun S. Azari & Sunil Singhal Article 17 May 2022 | Open Access Differential regulation of alternative promoters emerges from unified kinetics of enhancer-promoter interaction Alternative promoters differ in their expression patterns, whose mechanisms are not well understood. Here the… show more Jingyao Wang, Shihe Zhang & Heng Xu Article 16 May 2022 | Open Access Dynamic recognition and mirage using neuro-metamaterials While great progress has been made in object recognition, implementing them is typically based on conventional… show more Chao Qian, Zhedong Wang & Hongsheng Chen Article 16 May 2022 | Open Access Multifunctional metal-organic framework-based nanoreactor for starvation/oxidation improved indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-blockade tumor immunotherapy Inhibited immune response and low levels of delivery inhibit starvation cancer therapies. Here, the authors… show more Liangliang Dai, Mengjiao Yao & Yanli Zhao Article 16 May 2022 | Open Access Suppressing high-dimensional crystallographic defects for ultra-scaled DNA arrays DNA nanofabrication techniques have huge potential for the patterning of electronic materials and devices but… show more Yahong Chen, Chaoyong Yang & Wei Sun