Article 08 July 2022 | Open Access Electrochemical aromatic C–H hydroxylation in continuous flow The direct hydroxylation of arene C–H bonds is a highly sought-after transformation but with little literature… show more Hao Long, Tian-Sheng Chen & Hai-Chao Xu Article 08 July 2022 | Open Access Energy-selective confinement of fusion-born alpha particles during internal relaxations in a tokamak plasma Confining plasma for fusion requires controlling many parameters. Here the authors report the existence of a… show more A. Bierwage, K. Shinohara & S. Ide Article 08 July 2022 | Open Access Cation-selective two-dimensional polyimine membranes for high-performance osmotic energy conversion Two-dimensional (2D) membranes are emerging candidates for osmotic energy conversion but the trade-off between… show more Zhen Zhang, Preeti Bhauriyal & Xinliang Feng Article 07 July 2022 | Open Access Contrasting behaviour under pressure reveals the reasons for pyramidalization in tris(amido)uranium(III) and tris(arylthiolate) uranium(III) molecules The reasons for which many low-coordinate complexes exhibit bent geometry, rather than a higher symmetry, are… show more Amy N. Price, Victoria Berryman & Polly L. Arnold Article 07 July 2022 | Open Access Light sources with bias tunable spectrum based on van der Waals interface transistors Here, the authors report the realization of light-emitting field-effect transistors based on van der Waals… show more Hugo Henck, Diego Mauro & Alberto F. Morpurgo Article 07 July 2022 | Open Access Fluorescence turn on amine detection in a cationic covalent organic framework Ionic covalent organic frameworks (iCOFs) are new examples of porous materials and show great potential for… show more Gobinda Das, Bikash Garai & Ali Trabolsi Article 07 July 2022 | Open Access Multi-scale computer-aided design and photo-controlled macromolecular synthesis boosting uranium harvesting from seawater Developing materials for uranium harvesting from seawater with high adsorption capacity remains challenging.… show more Zeyu Liu, Youshi Lan & Gang Ye Article 07 July 2022 | Open Access Origin of giant electric-field-induced strain in faulted alkali niobate films Maximizing the electromechanical response is crucial for developing piezoelectric devices. Here, the authors… show more Moaz Waqar, Haijun Wu & John Wang Article 07 July 2022 | Open Access Biomimetic generation of the strongest known biomaterial found in limpet tooth The highest tensile strength biomaterial known exists in limpet teeth and replicating this material is of… show more Robin M. H. Rumney, Samuel C. Robson & Dariusz C. Górecki Article 07 July 2022 | Open Access Ultrahigh transverse thermoelectric power factor in flexible Weyl semimetal WTe2 Flexible thermoelectrics are of great interest with increasing demand of flexible and wearable electronics. Here,… show more Yu Pan, Bin He & Claudia Felser Article 07 July 2022 | Open Access Highly robust and soft biohybrid mechanoluminescence for optical signaling and illumination Despite the advantages of biohybrid systems for soft robotics, most systems have short lifetime, require complex… show more Chenghai Li, Qiguang He & Shengqiang Cai Article 07 July 2022 | Open Access Waveguide-integrated mid-infrared photodetection using graphene on a scalable chalcogenide glass platform Mid-infrared photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are important for sensing and optical communications, but their… show more Jordan Goldstein, Hongtao Lin & Dirk Englund Article 07 July 2022 | Open Access Soliton walls paired by polar surface interactions in a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal Surface interactions are usually polar along the normal to the interface and apolar within the interface. Here,… show more Bijaya Basnet, Mojtaba Rajabi & Oleg D. Lavrentovich Article 07 July 2022 | Open Access Mode-pairing quantum key distribution Measurement-device-independent QKD schemes suffer from a trade-off between ease of implementation (avoiding the… show more Pei Zeng, Hongyi Zhou & Xiongfeng Ma Article 07 July 2022 | Open Access Nanoscale organization of two-dimensional multimeric pMHC reagents with DNA origami for CD8+ T cell detection MHC-peptide multimers are important reagents for detecting antigen specific T cells. Here the authors show that… show more Yueyang Sun, Lu Yan & Hao Pei Article 06 July 2022 | Open Access Molecular-level insight into photocatalytic CO2 reduction with H2O over Au nanoparticles by interband transitions While plasmonic metals show some activity for photocatalysis, they often must be paired with semiconductors or… show more Wenchao Shangguan, Qing Liu & Jincai Zhao Article 06 July 2022 | Open Access Photo-thermo-induced room-temperature phosphorescence through solid-state molecular motion The development of non-invasive, rapid responsive phosphorescence is highly desirable but has rarely been… show more Xing Wang Liu, Weijun Zhao & Ben Zhong Tang Article 06 July 2022 | Open Access Determining the interlayer shearing in twisted bilayer MoS2 by nanoindentation The study of the mechanical properties of twisted van der Waals structures can provide important information… show more Yufei Sun, Yujia Wang & Kai Liu Article 06 July 2022 | Open Access Decatungstate-catalyzed radical disulfuration through direct C-H functionalization for the preparation of unsymmetrical disulfides Despite the importance of unsymmetrical disulfides in various fields such as food chemistry, pharmaceutical… show more Jingjing Zhang & Armido Studer Article 06 July 2022 | Open Access Ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor Ga2O3 power diodes The simultaneous achievement of high breakdown voltage and low resistance is a contradictory point because it… show more Jincheng Zhang, Pengfei Dong & Yue Hao Article 06 July 2022 | Open Access Programmable synthetic cell networks regulated by tuneable reaction rates Our understanding of how compartmentalisation and intercellular communication can tune enzyme reactions is still… show more Adrian Zambrano, Giorgio Fracasso & T-Y. Dora Tang Article 06 July 2022 | Open Access Nuclear speed and cycle length co-vary with local density during syncytial blastoderm formation in a cricket Early in insect embryo development, many nuclei share one large cell, travel varied paths and self-organize into… show more Seth Donoughe, Jordan Hoffmann & Cassandra G. Extavour Article 05 July 2022 | Open Access Wavelength-multiplexed hook nanoantennas for machine learning enabled mid-infrared spectroscopy Infrared spectroscopy with plasmonic nanoantennas is limited by small overlap between molecules and hot spots,… show more Zhihao Ren, Zixuan Zhang & Chengkuo Lee Article 05 July 2022 | Open Access Bixbyite-type Ln2O3 as promoters of metallic Ni for alkaline electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution While renewable H2 evolution will require inexpensive, abundant catalysts, non-noble metals typically show… show more Hongming Sun, Zhenhua Yan & Miao Du Article 05 July 2022 | Open Access Preparation of photonic molecular trains via soft-crystal polymerization of lanthanide complexes Soft-crystals are molecular solids with highly ordered structures. Here, authors report the soft-crystal… show more Pedro Paulo Ferreira da Rosa, Yuichi Kitagawa & Yasuchika Hasegawa Article 05 July 2022 | Open Access Atomic-scale insights on hydrogen trapping and exclusion at incoherent interfaces of nanoprecipitates in martensitic steels By trapping hydrogen, nanoprecipitates can mitigate the hydrogen embrittlement of high strength steels. Here, the… show more Binglu Zhang, Qisi Zhu & Lijie Qiao Article 05 July 2022 | Open Access High output mode-locked laser empowered by defect regulation in 2D Bi2O2Se saturable absorber Bi2O2Se holds potential for the realization of 2D optical modulators due to its broadband nonlinear response, air… show more Junting Liu, Fang Yang & Zhenhua Ni Article 05 July 2022 | Open Access Detection of relativistic fermions in Weyl semimetal TaAs by magnetostriction measurements Detecting Weyl or Dirac charge carriers in topological semimetals is challenging due to the presence of their… show more T. Cichorek, Ł. Bochenek & G. P. Mikitik Article 05 July 2022 | Open Access Metaproteomics reveals enzymatic strategies deployed by anaerobic microbiomes to maintain lignocellulose deconstruction at high solids Efficient solubilization of plant cell wall carbohydrates is required for microbial production of biofuels from… show more Payal Chirania, Evert K. Holwerda & Lee R. Lynd Article 05 July 2022 | Open Access Engineering consortia by polymeric microbial swarmbots Most attempts to co-cultivate the artificial microbial communities fail mostly due to the mismatched rates of… show more Lin Wang, Xi Zhang & Zhuojun Dai Article 05 July 2022 | Open Access Potentiating hypoxic microenvironment for antibiotic activation by photodynamic therapy to combat bacterial biofilm infections Bacteria in biofilms present unique metabolic conditions that limit the traditional antibiotic treatment. Here,… show more Weijun Xiu, Ling Wan & Lianhui Wang Article 04 July 2022 | Open Access Ultralow-voltage operation of light-emitting diodes Light emission from 17 types of LEDs is observed at record-low voltages of 36–60% of the bandgaps, which cannot… show more Yaxiao Lian, Dongchen Lan & Dawei Di Article 04 July 2022 | Open Access Calcium-tin alloys as anodes for rechargeable non-aqueous calcium-ion batteries at room temperature The key challenge for rechargeable Ca batteries originates from the severe passivation of the calcium metal anode… show more Zhirong Zhao-Karger, Yanlei Xiu & Maximilian Fichtner Article 04 July 2022 | Open Access Magnetic molecules as local sensors of topological hysteresis of superconductors Magnetic molecules have long been seen to hold promise in magnetic sensing applications. In this paper, Serrano… show more Giulia Serrano, Lorenzo Poggini & Roberta Sessoli Article 04 July 2022 | Open Access Design principles for water dissociation catalysts in high-performance bipolar membranes It is important yet challenging to elucidate the mechanism of water dissociation in bipolar membrane… show more Lihaokun Chen, Qiucheng Xu & Shannon W. Boettcher Article 04 July 2022 | Open Access Flexible ultrasound-induced retinal stimulating piezo-arrays for biomimetic visual prostheses Electronic visual prostheses, or biomimetic eyes, have shown capability of restoring functional vision through… show more Laiming Jiang, Gengxi Lu & Qifa Zhou Article 04 July 2022 | Open Access General recipe to realize photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers with 100-W-to-1-kW single-mode operation Here, the authors analytically derive the general conditions for 100-W-to-1-kW-class single-mode operation in… show more Takuya Inoue, Masahiro Yoshida & Susumu Noda Article 04 July 2022 | Open Access 3D and 2D aromatic units behave like oil and water in the case of benzocarborane derivatives 2D/2D fusion of aromatic halves leading to a global aromatic is found in many polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,… show more Jordi Poater, Clara Viñas & Francesc Teixidor Article 04 July 2022 | Open Access A-site cation influence on the conduction band of lead bromide perovskites The A-cation influence on the mechanism of slow hot carrier cooling in perovskites is controversial. Here, Man et… show more Gabriel J. Man, Chinnathambi Kamal & Sergei M. Butorin Article 02 July 2022 | Open Access Electroredox carbene organocatalysis with iodide as promoter Oxidative carbene organocatalysis has been developed as a versatile synthetic method, but has been paired with… show more Peng Zhou, Wenchang Li & Tingshun Zhu Article 02 July 2022 | Open Access Photo-tailored heterocrystalline covalent organic framework membranes for organics separation Covalent organic frameworks (COF) hold great promise in filtration and separation but combining facile… show more Jinqiu Yuan, Xinda You & Zhongyi Jiang Article 02 July 2022 | Open Access Unveiling the S=3/2 Kitaev honeycomb spin liquids Recently, material realizations of the spin 3/2 Kitaev honeycomb model have been proposed, but the model has not… show more Hui-Ke Jin, W. M. H. Natori & J. Knolle Article 02 July 2022 | Open Access Anti-dissolution Pt single site with Pt(OH)(O3)/Co(P) coordination for efficient alkaline water splitting electrolyzer Platinum is the most active catalyst for cathodic hydrogen evolution, however it is inefficient for anodic oxygen… show more Lingyou Zeng, Zhonglong Zhao & Shaojun Guo Article 02 July 2022 | Open Access Structure induced laminar vortices control anomalous dispersion in porous media Most porous systems comprise structures characterized by dead-end and transmitting pores. Here, authors show that… show more Ankur Deep Bordoloi, David Scheidweiler & Pietro de Anna Article 02 July 2022 | Open Access Synthesis and direct assay of large macrocycle diversities by combinatorial late-stage modification at picomole scale Macrocycles have potential as therapeutics, but their libraries are currently not large enough for… show more Sevan Habeshian, Manuel Leonardo Merz & Christian Heinis Article 02 July 2022 | Open Access Adenine oligomer directed synthesis of chiral gold nanoparticles Chiral plasmonic nanoparticles are of great interest in nanotechnology. Here, the authors demonstrate chiral… show more Nam Heon Cho, Young Bi Kim & Ki Tae Nam Article 02 July 2022 | Open Access Investigation of the monopole magneto-chemical potential in spin ices using capacitive torque magnetometry Magnetic-field induced phase transitions in spin-ice materials have been investigated with various experimental… show more Naween Anand, Kevin Barry & Christianne Beekman