Article 29 July 2022 | Open Access CO-tolerant RuNi/TiO2 catalyst for the storage and purification of crude hydrogen Efficient storage of crude hydrogen, through toluene hydrogenation to methylcyclohexane, is often inhibited by CO… show more Zhaohua Wang, Chunyang Dong & Ding Ma Article 29 July 2022 | Open Access Organic covalent modification to improve thermoelectric properties of TaS2 The improvement of thermoelectric performance of materials by reducing lattice thermal conductivity is… show more Shaozhi Wang, Xiao Yang & Jian Zheng Article 29 July 2022 | Open Access Large-area transfer of two-dimensional materials free of cracks, contamination and wrinkles via controllable conformal contact Reliable transfer techniques are critical for the integration of 2D materials with arbitrary substrates. Here,… show more Yixuan Zhao, Yuqing Song & Zhongfan Liu Article 29 July 2022 | Open Access Three-dimensional printing of photonic colloidal glasses into objects with isotropic structural color There is a growing interest in mimicking structural color in natural systems aiming for sustainable and… show more Ahmet F. Demirörs, Erik Poloni & André R. Studart Article 29 July 2022 | Open Access Thermal control of the topological edge flow in nonlinear photonic lattices The nonlinear evolution dynamics in topological photonic lattices is systematically investigated within the… show more Pawel S. Jung, Georgios G. Pyrialakos & Demetrios N. Christodoulides Article 29 July 2022 | Open Access Divergent synthesis of benzazepines and bridged polycycloalkanones via dearomative rearrangement The dearomative functionalization of aromatic compounds represents a challenging transformation, as it typically… show more Qiu Shi, Zhehui Liao & Shifa Zhu Article 29 July 2022 | Open Access Cross-validation of distance measurements in proteins by PELDOR/DEER and single-molecule FRET Pulsed electron-electron double resonance spectroscopy (PELDOR/DEER) and single-molecule Förster resonance energy… show more Martin F. Peter, Christian Gebhardt & Gregor Hagelueken Article 28 July 2022 | Open Access Photocatalytic dehydrogenative C-C coupling of acetonitrile to succinonitrile The coupling of acetonitrile into succinonitrile via a dehydrogenative route is highly attractive in terms of… show more Xian Zhou, Xiaofeng Gao & Siyu Yao Article 28 July 2022 | Open Access Protein secondary structure in spider silk nanofibrils Secondary fibril structure is a key component of the mechanical properties of protein materials like silk, yet,… show more Qijue Wang, Patrick McArdle & Hannes C. Schniepp Article 28 July 2022 | Open Access Microbial biofilms for electricity generation from water evaporation and power to wearables Though water evaporation-driven electricity generation is an attractive sustainable energy production strategy,… show more Xiaomeng Liu, Toshiyuki Ueki & Jun Yao Article 28 July 2022 | Open Access Metaplastic and energy-efficient biocompatible graphene artificial synaptic transistors for enhanced accuracy neuromorphic computing Designing biocompatible and flexible electronic devices for neuromrophic applications remains a challenge. Here,… show more Dmitry Kireev, Samuel Liu & Jean Anne C. Incorvia Article 28 July 2022 | Open Access Confinement anisotropy drives polar organization of two DNA molecules interacting in a nanoscale cavity A nanofluidic model system is used to explore how polymer interactions between large dsDNA molecules can give… show more Zezhou Liu, Xavier Capaldi & Walter Reisner Article 28 July 2022 | Open Access Simulating hyperbolic space on a circuit board Spaces with negative curvature are difficult to realise and investigate experimentally, but they can be emulated… show more Patrick M. Lenggenhager, Alexander Stegmaier & Tomáš Bzdušek Article 28 July 2022 | Open Access Topological digestion drives time-varying rheology of entangled DNA fluids Understanding and controlling the rheology of polymeric complex fluids is of fundamental importance in both… show more D. Michieletto, P. Neill & R. M. Robertson-Anderson Article 28 July 2022 | Open Access High-temperature flexible WSe2 photodetectors with ultrahigh photoresponsivity High-temperature photodetectors are desired for aerospace applications and harsh-environment robotics, but their… show more Yixuan Zou, Zekun Zhang & Peng Li Article 28 July 2022 | Open Access A Transparent Electrode Based on Solution-Processed ZnO for Organic Optoelectronic Devices A highly conductive and transparent electrode is essential to achieving a high efficiency in indium tin… show more Zhi Chen, Jie Wang & Zheng Tang Article 28 July 2022 | Open Access Breaking the fundamental scattering limit with gain metasurfaces Wave-matter interaction suffers from fundamental limit to scattering cross section, referred to as the… show more Chao Qian, Yi Yang & Hongsheng Chen Article 28 July 2022 | Open Access Pressure-induced monotonic enhancement of Tc to over 30 K in superconducting Pr0.82Sr0.18NiO2 thin films Despite much recent effort, the highest reported Tc of the infinite-layer nickelates remains lower than 15 K.… show more N. N. Wang, M. W. Yang & J.-G. Cheng Article 28 July 2022 | Open Access Sustainable environmental remediation via biomimetic multifunctional lignocellulosic nano-framework Persistent organic pollutant (POP) remediation is important for protecting the environment and human health but… show more Jinghao Li, Xiaohan Li & Susie Y. Dai Article 27 July 2022 | Open Access A reconfigurable and magnetically responsive assembly for dynamic solar steam generation Despite a promising water harvesting approach solar steam generation low efficiency remains a challenging… show more Yajie Hu, Hongyun Ma & Liangti Qu Article 27 July 2022 | Open Access Copper-catalyzed Z-selective synthesis of acrylamides and polyacrylamides via alkylidene ketenimines Alkylidene ketenimines are rarely reported, but synthetically useful, reactive intermediates. Here, the authors… show more Xuelun Duan, Nan Zheng & Wangze Song Article 27 July 2022 | Open Access Bayesian tomography of high-dimensional on-chip biphoton frequency combs with randomized measurements Full tomography of biphoton frequency comb states requires frequency mixing operations which are hard to scale.… show more Hsuan-Hao Lu, Karthik V. Myilswamy & Joseph M. Lukens Article 27 July 2022 | Open Access Decoherence of V−B spin defects in monoisotopic hexagonal boron nitride Recently, coherent control of spin defects in hBN has been realized, enabling future applications in quantum… show more A. Haykal, R. Tanos & V. Jacques Article 27 July 2022 | Open Access Sustainable oxygen evolution electrocatalysis in aqueous 1 M H2SO4 with earth abundant nanostructured Co3O4 While water electrolysis offers a renewable way to produce hydrogen, there are few Earth-abundant, acid-stable… show more Jiahao Yu, Felipe A. Garcés-Pineda & José Ramón Galán-Mascarós Article 27 July 2022 | Open Access Real-time precision opto-control of chemical processes in live cells There is a need to control molecular activities at high spatial precision. Here the authors report a real-time… show more Matthew G. Clark, Gil A. Gonzalez & Chi Zhang Article 27 July 2022 | Open Access Thermodynamics-guided alloy and process design for additive manufacturing Production defects prevent many industrially important materials from being adopted by metal additive… show more Zhongji Sun, Yan Ma & Dierk Raabe Article 27 July 2022 | Open Access Overload wave-memory induces amnesia of a self-propelled particle Memory and information storage play an important role in biological systems, however challenging to implement in… show more Maxime Hubert, Stéphane Perrard & Matthieu Labousse Article 27 July 2022 | Open Access UV photonic integrated circuits for far-field structured illumination autofluorescence microscopy Here, the authors develop a UV-compatible photonic integrated circuit for structured illumination microscopy on a… show more Chupao Lin, Juan Santo Domingo Peñaranda & Nicolas Le Thomas Article 27 July 2022 | Open Access ProtGPT2 is a deep unsupervised language model for protein design Protein design aims to build novel proteins customized for specific purposes, thereby holding the potential to… show more Noelia Ferruz, Steffen Schmidt & Birte Höcker Article 26 July 2022 | Open Access Dirac-source diode with sub-unity ideality factor While different types of low-power transistors have been investigated, low voltage rectifiers able to overcome… show more Gyuho Myeong, Wongil Shin & Sungjae Cho Article 26 July 2022 | Open Access Nonvolatile ferroelectric domain wall memory integrated on silicon Integrating ferroelectric perovskite oxides on Si is highly desired for electronic applications but challenging.… show more Haoying Sun, Jierong Wang & Yuefeng Nie Article 26 July 2022 | Open Access NGC1818 unveils the origin of the extended main-sequence turn-off in young Magellanic Clouds clusters The nature of young star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds is debated. Here, the authors show an alternative… show more Giacomo Cordoni, Antonino P. Milone & Maria V. Legnardi Article 26 July 2022 | Open Access Tracing the origin of lithium in Li-ion batteries using lithium isotopes Rechargeable Li-ion batteries play a key role in the energy transition towards clean energy. It is challenging… show more Anne-Marie Desaulty, Daniel Monfort Climent & Catherine Guerrot Article 26 July 2022 | Open Access Engineered bioorthogonal POLY-PROTAC nanoparticles for tumour-specific protein degradation and precise cancer therapy Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) have emerged as promising cancer therapy agents but have suffered from… show more Jing Gao, Bo Hou & Haijun Yu Article 25 July 2022 | Open Access Carbodefluorination of fluoroalkyl ketones via a carbene-initiated rearrangement strategy The selective functionalization of trifluoromethyl groups is challenging due to the inertness of the C–F bonds.… show more Linxuan Li, Xinyu Zhang & Xihe Bi Article 25 July 2022 | Open Access Competing electronic states emerging on polar surfaces Defect-free surfaces with excess charge are typically described as a homogeneous 2D electron gas. Here, in… show more Michele Reticcioli, Zhichang Wang & Cesare Franchini Article 25 July 2022 | Open Access K-point longitudinal acoustic phonons are responsible for ultrafast intervalley scattering in monolayer MoSe2 Valley depolarization processes in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides have been linked to acoustic phonons, but… show more Soungmin Bae, Kana Matsumoto & Ikufumi Katayama Article 25 July 2022 | Open Access Tailoring thermal insulation architectures from additive manufacturing Nanoscale porous building blocks hold great promise for a range of thermal management technologies but often… show more Lu An, Zipeng Guo & Shenqiang Ren Article 25 July 2022 | Open Access Lead federated neuromorphic learning for wireless edge artificial intelligence Designing energy-efficient computing solution for the implementation of AI algorithms in edge devices remains a… show more Helin Yang, Kwok-Yan Lam & H. Vincent Poor Article 25 July 2022 | Open Access A facile way to construct sensor array library via supramolecular chemistry for discriminating complex systems The development of sensor unit libraries that require minimal synthetic effort is challenging. Here, the authors… show more Jia-Hong Tian, Xin-Yue Hu & Dong-Sheng Guo Article 25 July 2022 | Open Access Spatial tomography of light resolved in time, spectrum, and polarisation The work harnesses principles of spatial state tomography to fully characterise an optical beam in space, time,… show more Martin Plöschner, Marcos Maestre Morote & Joel Carpenter Article 25 July 2022 | Open Access Active multiband varifocal metalenses based on orbital angular momentum division multiplexing A dielectric metalens consisting of ultrahigh aspect ratio TiO2 nanofins array is demonstrated to realize active… show more Ruixuan Zheng, Ruhao Pan & Junjie Li Article 25 July 2022 | Open Access Revisiting stress-corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement in 7xxx-Al alloys at the near-atomic-scale High-strength Al alloys are sensitive to stress corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement that limit their… show more Martí López Freixes, Xuyang Zhou & Baptiste Gault Article 25 July 2022 | Open Access Dielectric catastrophe at the Wigner-Mott transition in a moiré superlattice The Wigner-Mott insulator is driven by extended Coulomb repulsion, rather than the on-site Coulomb repulsion of… show more Yanhao Tang, Jie Gu & Jie Shan Article 23 July 2022 | Open Access Mechanochemistry-driven engineering of 0D/3D heterostructure for designing highly luminescent Cs–Pb–Br perovskites While emission and stability of metal–halide perovskites can be enhanced through heterostructural encapsulation,… show more Kyeong-Yoon Baek, Woocheol Lee & Takhee Lee Article 23 July 2022 | Open Access Supercurrent diode effect and magnetochiral anisotropy in few-layer NbSe2 The supercurrent diode effect was recently observed in a Nb/V/Ta superlattice thin film with Rashba-type… show more Lorenz Bauriedl, Christian Bäuml & Nicola Paradiso