Article 16 June 2022 | Open Access Generation and direct observation of a triplet arylnitrenium ion Nitrenium ions are highly electrophilic reactive intermediates of formula R−N−R+, nitrogen analogue of carbenes.… show more Lili Du, Juanjuan Wang & Arthur H. Winter Article 16 June 2022 | Open Access Terahertz thermal curve analysis for label-free identification of pathogens A label-free sensing method has been developed for identifying hazardous pathogens based on their intrinsic… show more S. W. Jun & Y. H. Ahn Perspective 16 June 2022 | Open Access A sound approach to advancing healthcare systems: the future of biomedical acoustics Acoustic techniques are moving towards the clinic. Here the authors highlight recent developments in the areas of… show more Joseph Rufo, Peiran Zhang & Tony Jun Huang Article 16 June 2022 | Open Access Catalytical nano-immunocomplexes for remote-controlled sono-metabolic checkpoint trimodal cancer therapy Ultrasound-based therapies in combination with immune checkpoint blockade have been shown to improve the efficacy… show more Chi Zhang, Jingsheng Huang & Kanyi Pu Article 16 June 2022 | Open Access Influence maximization in Boolean networks Boolean networks modelling various biological processes are characterized by nonlinear reversible dynamics that… show more Thomas Parmer, Luis M. Rocha & Filippo Radicchi Article 16 June 2022 | Open Access Taming the radical cation intermediate enabled one-step access to structurally diverse lignans Lignans, in spite of their structural diversity, are all biosynthetically derived from coniferyl alcohol. Here,… show more Jia-Chen Xiang, Cédric Fung & Jieping Zhu Article 16 June 2022 | Open Access Study of the doubly charmed tetraquark T+cc The existence and properties of tetraquark states with two heavy quarks and two light antiquarks have been widely… show more R. Aaij, A. S. W. Abdelmotteleb & G. Zunica Article 16 June 2022 | Open Access Sustainable power generation for at least one month from ambient humidity using unique nanofluidic diode Energy harvesting of humidity present in air can be used for the development of clean energy sources and… show more Yong Zhang, Tingting Yang & Qi-Chang He Article 16 June 2022 | Open Access Effective lifting of the topological protection of quantum spin Hall edge states by edge coupling New functionalities of two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTI) are of current scientific interest. Here,… show more R. Stühler, A. Kowalewski & R. Claessen Article 16 June 2022 | Open Access Observation of anomalous amplitude modes in the kagome metal CsV3Sb5 The mechanism of the charge density wave in kagome metals is not fully understood. Here, the authors report the… show more Gan Liu, Xinran Ma & Xiaoxiang Xi Article 16 June 2022 | Open Access Light-sheet photonic force optical coherence elastography for high-throughput quantitative 3D micromechanical imaging The authors introduce photonic force optical coherence elastography that uses a light-sheet for parallelised and… show more Yuechuan Lin, Nichaluk Leartprapun & Steven G. Adie Article 15 June 2022 | Open Access Deciphering the phase transition-induced ultrahigh piezoresponse in (K,Na)NbO3-based piezoceramics Functional oxides with coexisting states of comparable energy typically exhibit extraordinary responses to… show more Mao-Hua Zhang, Chen Shen & Manuel Hinterstein Article 15 June 2022 | Open Access Effect of the grain arrangements on the thermal stability of polycrystalline nickel-rich lithium-based battery cathodes Enhancing the stability of positive electrodes at thermally-abused conditions is vital for next-generation… show more Dong Hou, Zhengrui Xu & Feng Lin Article 15 June 2022 | Open Access Excited state non-adiabatic dynamics of large photoswitchable molecules using a chemically transferable machine learning potential The authors introduce a diabatic neural network to accelerate excitedstate, non-adiabatic simulations of… show more Simon Axelrod, Eugene Shakhnovich & Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli Article 15 June 2022 | Open Access Complete biosynthetic pathway to the antidiabetic drug acarbose The market demand for acarbose, a drug used for treatment of patients affected by type-2 diabetes, has increased.… show more Takeshi Tsunoda, Arash Samadi & Taifo Mahmud Article 15 June 2022 | Open Access Organic donor-acceptor heterojunctions for high performance circularly polarized light detection Here, the authors report a strategy to fabricate multi-wavelength circularly polarized light photodetectors… show more Danlei Zhu, Wei Jiang & Lang Jiang Article 14 June 2022 | Open Access Accelerating amorphous polymer electrolyte screening by learning to reduce errors in molecular dynamics simulated properties Screening polymer electrolytes for batteries is extremely expensive due to the complex structures and slow… show more Tian Xie, Arthur France-Lanord & Jeffrey C. Grossman Article 14 June 2022 | Open Access Approaching intrinsic dynamics of MXenes hybrid hydrogel for 3D printed multimodal intelligent devices with ultrahigh superelasticity and temperature sensitivity Cost effective device fabrication of powerful hydrogel sensors remains challenging. Here, the authors propose a… show more Haodong Liu, Chengfeng Du & Wei Huang Article 14 June 2022 | Open Access Beam steering at the nanosecond time scale with an atomically thin reflector Andersen et al. have demonstrated a new type of beam steering device based on the excitonic response of an… show more Trond I. Andersen, Ryan J. Gelly & Mikhail D. Lukin Article 14 June 2022 | Open Access Direct observation of ultrafast exciton localization in an organic semiconductor with soft X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy A detailed understanding of ultrafast exciton dynamics is crucial for improving the efficiency of organic… show more D. Garratt, L. Misiekis & J. P. Marangos Article 14 June 2022 | Open Access Automated detection and segmentation of non-small cell lung cancer computed tomography images Correct interpretation of computer tomography (CT) scans is important for the correct assessment of a patient’s… show more Sergey P. Primakov, Abdalla Ibrahim & Philippe Lambin Article 14 June 2022 | Open Access A framework for the general design and computation of hybrid neural networks Hybrid neural networks combine advantages of spiking and artificial neural networks in the context of computing… show more Rong Zhao, Zheyu Yang & Luping Shi Article 14 June 2022 | Open Access Spinning-enabled wireless amphibious origami millirobot Wireless millirobots are promising as minimally invasive biomedical devices. Here, the authors design a… show more Qiji Ze, Shuai Wu & Ruike Renee Zhao Article 14 June 2022 | Open Access Observation of supersymmetry and its spontaneous breaking in a trapped ion quantum simulator Quantum simulators should be able to give insight on exotic physics models such as supersymmetric extensions of… show more M.-L. Cai, Y.-K. Wu & L.-M. Duan Article 14 June 2022 | Open Access Evidence of water on the lunar surface from Chang’E-5 in-situ spectra and returned samples Laboratory analysis of returned Chang’E-5 samples from the lunar surface show their hydroxyl contents to be on… show more Jianjun Liu, Bin Liu & Ziyuan Ouyang Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access Detection of quantum-vacuum field correlations outside the light cone There is interest in measuring the vacuum fluctuations of electromagnetic radiation. Here the authors demonstrate… show more Francesca Fabiana Settembrini, Frieder Lindel & Jérôme Faist Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access Cellulose photonic pigments Several biomaterials have been promised as suitable candidates for photonic materials and pigments, but their… show more Richard M. Parker, Tianheng H. Zhao & Silvia Vignolini Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access Creating boundaries along a synthetic frequency dimension The exploration of topological boundary effects is one of the important aspects that could foster the development… show more Avik Dutt, Luqi Yuan & Shanhui Fan Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access Bis-Schiff base linkage-triggered highly bright luminescence of gold nanoclusters in aqueous solution at the single-cluster level Boosting the luminescence of atomically precise metal clusters is a main goal in view of applications. Here, the… show more Haohua Deng, Kaiyuan Huang & Wei Chen Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access Active electrochemical high-contrast gratings as on/off switchable and color tunable pixels Two key display operations, color tuning and on/off switching, are achieved with reflective structural colors by… show more Cheon Woo Moon, Youngji Kim & Jerome Kartham Hyun Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access Anomalous thermo-osmotic conversion performance of ionic covalent-organic-framework membranes in response to charge variations The development of ionic membranes with a high charge population is critical for realizing efficient… show more Weipeng Xian, Xiuhui Zuo & Qi Sun Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access Hydrogenated Cs2AgBiBr6 for significantly improved efficiency of lead-free inorganic double perovskite solar cell Though inorganic perovskites are an attractive, non-toxic and stable alternative to organic-inorganic halide… show more Zeyu Zhang, Qingde Sun & Manling Sui Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access Fully lignocellulose-based PET analogues for the circular economy ‘Polyethylene terephthalate is a widely used polymer with a concerning environmental impact, and alternatives are… show more Xianyuan Wu, Maxim V. Galkin & Katalin Barta Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access Nickel(0)-catalyzed divergent reactions of silacyclobutanes with internal alkynes Transition metal-catalyzed reactions of silacyclobutanes to access structurally diverse organosilicon compounds… show more Xi-Chao Wang, Bo Li & Dongbing Zhao Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access Topological invariant and anomalous edge modes of strongly nonlinear systems Topological phases are challenging to identify in systems with general, strong nonlinearities. Here, the authors… show more Di Zhou, D. Zeb Rocklin & Yugui Yao Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access High throughput, label-free isolation of circulating tumor cell clusters in meshed microwells Metastatic CTC clusters remain relatively unexplored due to the lack of optimized and practical technologies for… show more Mert Boya, Tevhide Ozkaya-Ahmadov & A. Fatih Sarioglu Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access Defect engineering of layered double hydroxide nanosheets as inorganic photosensitizers for NIR-III photodynamic cancer therapy Defect engineering of 2 dimensional layered double hydroxide sheets improves their photocatalytic activity. Here,… show more Weicheng Shen, Tingting Hu & Chaoliang Tan Article 13 June 2022 | Open Access Ion complexation waves emerge at the curved interfaces of layered minerals The structure of hydrated interfaces is essential for understanding of geochemical processes and behavior of… show more Michael L. Whittaker, David Ren & Jillian F. Banfield Article 11 June 2022 | Open Access Photoredox catalytic radical fluorosulfonylation of olefins enabled by a bench-stable redox-active fluorosulfonyl radical precursor Sulfonyl fluorides are compounds with potential application in chemical biology and drug discovery, but their… show more Peng Wang, Honghai Zhang & Saihu Liao