Article 13 August 2022 | Open Access A mid-infrared lab-on-a-chip for dynamic reaction monitoring Rapid investigation of chemical reactions is a challenge in bio-medical analysis. Here, the authors demonstrate… show more Borislav Hinkov, Florian Pilat & Gottfried Strasser Article 13 August 2022 | Open Access Diverse synthesis of α-tertiary amines and tertiary alcohols via desymmetric reduction of malonic esters Chiral α-tertiary amines and tertiary alcohols are prevalent in bioactive molecules yet challenging targets to… show more Haichao Liu, Vincent Ho Man Lau & Zhongxing Huang Article 13 August 2022 | Open Access Imbibition-induced selective wetting of liquid metal Liquid metals that have enormous surface tension are difficult to pattern into films. Here, authors report the… show more Ji-Hye Kim, Sooyoung Kim & Hyung-Jun Koo Article 13 August 2022 | Open Access Zero dispersion Kerr solitons in optical microresonators Here, the authors find the missing link for soliton microcombs that exist at the boundary where the group… show more Miles H. Anderson, Wenle Weng & Tobias J. Kippenberg Article 13 August 2022 | Open Access Extraction of accurate cytoskeletal actin velocity distributions from noisy measurements Dynamic remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton underlies cell movement, but is challenging to characterize at the… show more Cayla M. Miller, Elgin Korkmazhan & Alexander R. Dunn Article 12 August 2022 | Open Access Molecular engineering of dihydroxyanthraquinone-based electrolytes for high-capacity aqueous organic redox flow batteries Aqueous organic redox flow batteries are affected by short cycle life and low capacity. Here, the authors develop… show more Shiqiang Huang, Hang Zhang & Qing Wang Article 12 August 2022 | Open Access Excitation energy mediated cross-relaxation for tunable upconversion luminescence from a single lanthanide ion Here, the authors report tunable luminescence from a single lanthanide ion upon changing excitation conditions… show more Xiao Fu, Shuai Fu & Qingsong Mei Article 12 August 2022 | Open Access [3+2] Cycloaddition of alkyl aldehydes and alkynes enabled by photoinduced hydrogen atom transfer In contrast to the prevalence of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions, radical [3+2] annulations of alkynes are… show more Siya Le, Ji Li & Gangguo Zhu Article 12 August 2022 | Open Access Conformational enantiodiscrimination for asymmetric construction of atropisomers Molecular flexiblity and conformational dynamics of chiral catalysts are not often taken into account in models… show more Shouyi Cen, Nini Huang & Zhipeng Zhang Article 12 August 2022 | Open Access Direct observation of ideal electromagnetic fluids This paper reports an experimental observation of irrotational, inviscid, and incompressible electromagnetic… show more Hao Li, Ziheng Zhou & Yue Li Article 12 August 2022 | Open Access Practical continuous-variable quantum key distribution with composable security Continuous-variable QKD protocols are usually easier to implement than discrete-variables ones, but their… show more Nitin Jain, Hou-Man Chin & Ulrik L. Andersen Article 12 August 2022 | Open Access Single-atom nanozymes catalytically surpassing naturally occurring enzymes as sustained stitching for brain trauma The catalytic activity of regenerable nanozymes is currently the bottle neck for their wider employment. Here,… show more Shaofang Zhang, Yonghui Li & Xiao-Dong Zhang Article 12 August 2022 | Open Access Molecular ensemble junctions with inter-molecular quantum interference Quantum interference effect in the conductance of single molecule junctions has been attracting intensive… show more Ping’an Li & Yoram Selzer Article 12 August 2022 | Open Access High activity and selectivity of single palladium atom for oxygen hydrogenation to H2O2 Nanosized Pd-based catalysts are widely used in the direct hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) synthesis from H2 and O2,… show more Shiming Yu, Xing Cheng & Ge Chen Article 12 August 2022 | Open Access Dynamic magnetic crossover at the origin of the hidden-order in van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr A 2D magnet CrSBr has attracted interest for applications in spintronics due to its high critical temperature and… show more Sara A. López-Paz, Zurab Guguchia & Fabian O. von Rohr Article 12 August 2022 | Open Access CNT-molecule-CNT (1D-0D-1D) van der Waals integration ferroelectric memory with 1-nm2 junction area The van der Waals integration of molecular layer (0D) with 2D or 3D electrodes is limited at microscale junction.… show more Thanh Luan Phan, Sohyeon Seo & Woo Jong Yu Article 11 August 2022 | Open Access Dearomative di- and trifunctionalization of aryl sulfoxides via [5,5]-rearrangement In contrast with well-established dearomatization protocols such as the Birch reduction, sigmatropic… show more Mengjie Hu, Yanping Liu & Bo Peng Article 11 August 2022 | Open Access Functional control of oscillator networks In network systems governed by oscillatory activity, such as brain networks or power grids, configurations of… show more Tommaso Menara, Giacomo Baggio & Fabio Pasqualetti Article 11 August 2022 | Open Access Adenosine triphosphate-activated prodrug system for on-demand bacterial inactivation and wound disinfection Prodrugs are increasingly promising in tackling bacterial resistance and efficacy of treatment. Here, the authors… show more Yuhao Weng, Huihong Chen & Hongliang Tan Article 11 August 2022 | Open Access Rational highly dispersed ruthenium for reductive catalytic fractionation of lignocellulose Lignin valorization becomes the spotlight on the full utilization of biomass. Here, the authors report a highly… show more Zhenzhen Liu, Helong Li & Guoyong Song Article 11 August 2022 | Open Access Biocatalytic routes to stereo-divergent iridoids Iridoid compounds are an important class of natural products. Here, the authors report on the discovery and… show more Néstor J. Hernández Lozada, Benke Hong & Sarah E. O’Connor Article 11 August 2022 | Open Access Megahertz pulse trains enable multi-hit serial femtosecond crystallography experiments at X-ray free electron lasers Free-electron lasers are capable of high repetition rates and it is assumed that protein crystals often do not… show more Susannah Holmes, Henry J. Kirkwood & Connie Darmanin Article 10 August 2022 | Open Access N-Heterocyclic carbene-based C-centered Au(I)-Ag(I) clusters with intense phosphorescence and organelle-selective translocation in cells Photoluminescent gold clusters have unique chemical and physical properties based on their perturbed electronic… show more Zhen Lei, Mizuki Endo & Mitsuhiko Shionoya Article 10 August 2022 | Open Access Embedded metallic nanoparticles facilitate metastability of switchable metallic domains in Mott threshold switches Control of percolative dynamics of metal and insulator domains during electrically triggered insulator-metal… show more Minguk Jo, Ye-Won Seo & Junwoo Son Article 10 August 2022 | Open Access Linking oxidative and reductive clusters to prepare crystalline porous catalysts for photocatalytic CO2 reduction with H2O A crystalline hetero-metallic cluster catalyst based on a covalent organic framework strategy is reported. The… show more Jie Zhou, Jie Li & Ya-Qian Lan Article 10 August 2022 | Open Access Thermodynamics of high-pressure ice phases explored with atomistic simulations Many experimentally known high-pressure ice phase are structurally very similar. Here authors elucidate the phase… show more Aleks Reinhardt, Mandy Bethkenhagen & Bingqing Cheng Article 10 August 2022 | Open Access A distributed nanocluster based multi-agent evolutionary network Designing an efficient multi-agent hardware system to solve large-scale computational problems through… show more Liying Xu, Jiadi Zhu & Ru Huang Article 10 August 2022 | Open Access Entanglement of orbital angular momentum in non-sequential double ionization In strong field ionization, entanglement between an electron and an ion has been discussed previously. Here the… show more Andrew S. Maxwell, Lars Bojer Madsen & Maciej Lewenstein Article 10 August 2022 | Open Access Phase-selective recrystallization makes eutectic high-entropy alloys ultra-ductile The ever most widely used eutectic alloys often suffer from limited ductility. Here the authors propose a… show more Qingfeng Wu, Feng He & Jincheng Wang Article 09 August 2022 | Open Access Nested order-disorder framework containing a crystalline matrix with self-filled amorphous-like innards The synthesis and characterization of new crystalline-amorphous hybrid materials is challenging. Here, the… show more Kejun Bu, Qingyang Hu & Xujie Lü Article 09 August 2022 | Open Access Identification of a non-axisymmetric mode in laboratory experiments searching for standard magnetorotational instability Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities are related to different characteristics and behavior of fluids. Here the… show more Yin Wang, Erik P. Gilson & Hantao Ji Article 09 August 2022 | Open Access Erasure conversion for fault-tolerant quantum computing in alkaline earth Rydberg atom arrays In quantum computing, realistic error models can allow tailored correction schemes for specific platforms. Here,… show more Yue Wu, Shimon Kolkowitz & Jeff D. Thompson Article 09 August 2022 | Open Access Ultrafast small-scale soft electromagnetic robots Inspired by fast running cheetahs, the authors present a class of small-scale soft electromagnetic robots able to… show more Guoyong Mao, David Schiller & Martin Kaltenbrunner Article 09 August 2022 | Open Access Synthesis of bioactive (1→6)-β-glucose branched poly-amido-saccharides that stimulate and induce M1 polarization in macrophages Difficulty with purification, structural heterogenicity, and limited water solubility of β-glucans has… show more Ruiqing Xiao, Jialiu Zeng & Mark W. Grinstaff Article 09 August 2022 | Open Access Shielded soft force sensors Capacitive soft force sensors require electrical shielding from electromagnetic interference, but this shielding… show more Bekir Aksoy, Yufei Hao & Herbert Shea Article 09 August 2022 | Open Access Ultra-flat and long-lived plasmons in a strongly correlated oxide Dispersionless plasmons could find important practical applications, but previous demonstrations have been… show more Han Gao, Chao Ding & Yangyang Li Article 09 August 2022 | Open Access Designing against phase and property heterogeneities in additively manufactured titanium alloys Additively manufactured Ti alloys exhibit spatially dependent microstructures and mechanical properties owing to… show more Jingqi Zhang, Yingang Liu & Ming-Xing Zhang Article 09 August 2022 | Open Access Pro-oxidant response and accelerated ferroptosis caused by synergetic Au(I) release in hypercarbon-centered gold(I) cluster prodrugs Several strategies have been developed in recent years for therapeutic induction of ferroptosis in cancer. Here… show more Kui Xiao, Niyuan Zhang & Liang Zhao Article 09 August 2022 | Open Access Endogenically sourced volatiles on Charon and other Kuiper belt objects We show cryovolcanic eruptions released sufficient methane to source volatile products on Charon. Irradiated… show more Stephanie M. Menten, Michael M. Sori & Ali M. Bramson Article 08 August 2022 | Open Access Electronic gap characterization at mesoscopic scale via scanning probe microscopy under ambient conditions The nanoscale measurement of electronic bandgaps is crucial for material characterization, but it is usually… show more Dian Li, Xiong Wang & Xiaodong Cui Article 08 August 2022 | Open Access Boosting the stability of perovskites with exsolved nanoparticles by B-site supplement mechanism The instability of perovskites with exsolved nanoparticles for CO2 electrocatalysis impedes their practical… show more Bo-Wen Zhang, Meng-Nan Zhu & Jing-Li Luo Article 08 August 2022 | Open Access Searching for ultra-light bosons and constraining black hole spin distributions with stellar tidal disruption events Stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when stars pass close enough to supermassive black holes. Here, the… show more Peizhi Du, Daniel Egaña-Ugrinovic & Rosalba Perna Article 08 August 2022 | Open Access Development of high-energy non-aqueous lithium-sulfur batteries via redox-active interlayer strategy Lithium-sulfur batteries promise high energy density, but polysulfide shuttling acts as a major stumbling block… show more Byong-June Lee, Chen Zhao & Jong-Sung Yu Article 08 August 2022 | Open Access Anomalous Ferromagnetism of quasiparticle doped holes in cuprate heterostructures revealed using resonant soft X-ray magnetic scattering Long-range magnetic order of quasiparticle doped holes is important for understanding the physics of cuprate… show more B. L. Ong, K. Jayaraman & A. Rusydi Article 08 August 2022 | Open Access Quantum-assisted distortion-free audio signal sensing High sensitivity in quantum sensing comes often at the expense of other figures of merit, usually resulting in… show more Chen Zhang, Durga Dasari & Jörg Wrachtrup Article 08 August 2022 | Open Access Topological superfluid defects with discrete point group symmetries Ordinary vortex line defects are well-studied across different physical systems. Here the authors demonstrate, in… show more Y. Xiao, M. O. Borgh & D. S. Hall Article 08 August 2022 | Open Access Superfluid stiffness of a KTaO3-based two-dimensional electron gas Heterostructures based on (111)-oriented KTaO3crystals are a new platform for studying oxide interfaces.… show more S. Mallik, G. C. Ménard & N. Bergeal Article 08 August 2022 | Open Access Electrically tunable two-dimensional heterojunctions for miniaturized near-infrared spectrometers Miniaturized infrared spectrometers are required for imaging and remote sensing applications, but they are… show more Wenjie Deng, Zilong Zheng & Yongzhe Zhang Article 08 August 2022 | Open Access Measuring anion binding at biomembrane interfaces Quantification of anion binding by molecular receptors within lipid bilayers is challenging. Here, the authors… show more Xin Wu, Patrick Wang & Philip A. Gale Article 08 August 2022 | Open Access Photonic crystal enhanced fluorescence emission and blinking suppression for single quantum dot digital resolution biosensing Nanoscale emitters are useful for measuring biomolecular interactions, but are limited by weak signals. Here, the… show more Yanyu Xiong, Qinglan Huang & Brian T. Cunningham