Article 19 September 2022 | Open Access The imprint of star formation on stellar pulsations The classical stellar evolution concept assumes that when the stars arrive on the main sequence, there is no… show more Thomas Steindl, Konstanze Zwintz & Eduard Vorobyov Article 19 September 2022 | Open Access Stress induced TDP-43 mobility loss independent of stress granules Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis related TDP-43 protein translocates to stress granules with a concomitant reduction… show more Lisa Streit, Timo Kuhn & Karin M. Danzer Article 17 September 2022 | Open Access Main-chain engineering of polymer photocatalysts with hydrophilic non-conjugated segments for visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution The introduction of hydrophilic segments into the main-chain of polymer photocatalysts allows water to… show more Chih-Li Chang, Wei-Cheng Lin & Ho-Hsiu Chou Article 17 September 2022 | Open Access Growth of bilayer MoTe2 single crystals with strong non-linear Hall effect 2D transition metal ditellurides exhibit nontrivial topological phases, but the controlled bottom-up synthesis of… show more Teng Ma, Hao Chen & Kian Ping Loh Article 17 September 2022 | Open Access Mechanism of C-N bonds formation in electrocatalytic urea production revealed by ab initio molecular dynamics simulation Urea electrosyntehsis from CO2 and NOx is a challenging reaction that is becoming increasingly important. This… show more Xin Liu, Yan Jiao & Shi-Zhang Qiao Article 17 September 2022 | Open Access Pt1 enhanced C-H activation synergistic with Ptn catalysis for glycerol cascade oxidation to glyceric acid The selective oxidation of glycerol to glyceric acid is an important value-added cascade catalytic process. Here… show more Zhe An, Zilong Zhang & Jing He Article 17 September 2022 | Open Access Three learning stages and accuracy–efficiency tradeoff of restricted Boltzmann machines Restricted Boltzmann Machines are unsupervised machine learning model that have been applied for various tasks… show more Lennart Dabelow & Masahito Ueda Article 17 September 2022 | Open Access Dislocation exhaustion and ultra-hardening of nanograined metals by phase transformation at grain boundaries Strengthening of metals by grain refinement is limited by the inverse Hall-Petch effect. Here, the authors show… show more Shangshu Wu, Zongde Kou & Tao Feng Article 17 September 2022 | Open Access Scaling behavior of electron decoherence in a graphene Mach-Zehnder interferometer Quantum Hall edge channels provide a platform to study electron interference, however understanding decoherence… show more M. Jo, June-Young M. Lee & P. Roulleau Article 17 September 2022 | Open Access Insight into the transient inactivation effect on Au/TiO2 catalyst by in-situ DRIFT and UV–vis spectroscopy A molecular-level understanding of the Au-catalyzed CO oxidation on a fast time-resolved scale is still lacking.… show more Xianwei Wang, Arnulf Rosspeintner & Thomas Bürgi Article 16 September 2022 | Open Access Electrosynthesis of formamide from methanol and ammonia under ambient conditions Developing a sustainable manufacturing method using biomass-derived feedstock at ambient conditions is highly… show more Nannan Meng, Jiang Shao & Bin Zhang Article 16 September 2022 | Open Access Interface engineering breaks both stability and activity limits of RuO2 for sustainable water oxidation RuO2 encounters critical electrochemical dissolution issues during oxygen evolution reaction and it remains a… show more Kun Du, Lifu Zhang & Tao Ling Article 16 September 2022 | Open Access Self-heating hotspots in superconducting nanowires cooled by phonon black-body radiation Unlocking the ultimate potential of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors requires engineering their… show more Andrew Dane, Jason Allmaras & Karl K. Berggren Article 16 September 2022 | Open Access Tackling realistic Li+ flux for high-energy lithium metal batteries The low conductivity of LiF disturbs Li+ diffusion across solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) and induces Li+… show more Shuoqing Zhang, Ruhong Li & Xiulin Fan Article 16 September 2022 | Open Access Synthesis, properties, and material hybridization of bare aromatic polymers enabled by dendrimer support Unsubstituted aromatic polymers are materials with multiple potential applications, but their preparation remains… show more Shusei Fujiki, Kazuma Amaike & Kenichiro Itami Article 16 September 2022 | Open Access Clustering by measuring local direction centrality for data with heterogeneous density and weak connectivity Clustering is a powerful machine learning method for discovering similar patterns according to the proximity of… show more Dehua Peng, Zhipeng Gui & Huayi Wu Article 16 September 2022 | Open Access Enzymatic synthesis of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids using a parallel cascade strategy and tyrosinase variants Pharmaceuticals derived from benzylisoquinoline alkaloids find application in modern medicine. Here, the authors… show more Yu Wang, Fabiana Subrizi & Helen C. Hailes Article 16 September 2022 | Open Access Water regulates the residence time of Benzamidine in Trypsin Water is an essential part of any biological system, yet many aspects of its role remain elusive. Here the… show more Narjes Ansari, Valerio Rizzi & Michele Parrinello Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access Grain boundary structural transformation induced by co-segregation of aliovalent dopants The effect of aliovalent doping on grain boundary is not yet fully understood at the atomic level. Here, the… show more Toshihiro Futazuka, Ryo Ishikawa & Yuichi Ikuhara Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access Role of chemisorbing species in growth at liquid metal-electrolyte interfaces revealed by in situ X-ray scattering Growth at liquid-liquid interfaces differ inherently from that on solids, making it attractive for nanomaterial… show more Andrea Sartori, Rajendra P. Giri & Olaf M. Magnussen Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access A library of polytypic copper-based quaternary sulfide nanocrystals enables efficient solar-to-hydrogen conversion While polytypic semiconductors are promising for solar-to-fuel applications, preparing homojunction nanomaterials… show more Liang Wu, Qian Wang & Shu-Hong Yu Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access Enabling scalable optical computing in synthetic frequency dimension using integrated cavity acousto-optics Synthetic frequency dimension from light modulation enables scalable optical computing. The authors show an… show more Han Zhao, Bingzhao Li & Mo Li Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access Record high Tc element superconductivity achieved in titanium Superconductivity at megabar pressures has recently attracted interest in the context of hydrides. Here, the… show more Changling Zhang, Xin He & Changqing Jin Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access Humidity-sensitive chemoelectric flexible sensors based on metal-air redox reaction for health management Self-powered sensors are of interest in wearable technology and other applications. Here, the authors report on… show more Shuo Li, Yong Zhang & Yingying Zhang Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access Spontaneous spin-valley polarization in NbSe2 at a van der Waals interface Van der Waals heterostructures made of 2D materials offer a rich platform for the study of novel proximity… show more Hideki Matsuoka, Tetsuro Habe & Masaki Nakano Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access Unveiling Weyl-related optical responses in semiconducting tellurium by mid-infrared circular photogalvanic effect Materials with Weyl cones and band gaps coexisting are desired due to their combination of Weyl cones and the… show more Junchao Ma, Bin Cheng & Dong Sun Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access AC amplification gain in organic electrochemical transistors for impedance-based single cell sensors The authors develop a quantitative description of alternating current amplification gain in organic… show more Filippo Bonafè, Francesco Decataldo & Beatrice Fraboni Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access Integrated wafer-scale ultra-flat graphene by gradient surface energy modulation Defect-free integration of 2D materials onto semiconductor wafers is desired to implement heterogeneous… show more Xin Gao, Liming Zheng & Hailin Peng Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access Exceptional water production yield enabled by batch-processed portable water harvester in semi-arid climate Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting has the potential to realize flexible water production but reaching… show more He Shan, Chunfeng Li & Ruzhu Wang Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access Phototunable chip-scale topological photonics: 160 Gbps waveguide and demultiplexer for THz 6G communication 6G communication requires high-speed and advanced functionalities on-chip. Here the authors demonstrate broadband… show more Abhishek Kumar, Manoj Gupta & Ranjan Singh Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access Control of structure and spin texture in the van der Waals layered magnet CrSBr Van der Waals magnetic materials are composed of atomically thin magnetically ordered layers stacked together.… show more J. Klein, T. Pham & F. M. Ross Article 15 September 2022 | Open Access Reconstitution of microtubule into GTP-responsive nanocapsules GTP-triggered release from drug carriers has huge potential in cancer therapy but current carriers suffers from… show more Noriyuki Uchida, Ai Kohata & Takuzo Aida Article 14 September 2022 | Open Access Flying electron spin control gates Spin qubits are a platform for quantum computing. There are many advantages for quantum information processing if… show more Paul L. J. Helgers, James A. H. Stotz & Paulo V. Santos Article 14 September 2022 | Open Access Observation of Bose-Einstein condensates of excitons in a bulk semiconductor Bose-Einstein condensate of excitons is expected in photo-excited bulk semiconductors, but a direct experimental… show more Yusuke Morita, Kosuke Yoshioka & Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami Article 14 September 2022 | Open Access Understanding Braess’ Paradox in power grids Increasing the capacity of existing lines or adding new lines in power grids may, counterintuitively, reduce the… show more Benjamin Schäfer, Thiemo Pesch & Marc Timme Article 14 September 2022 | Open Access Biochemical and structural insights of multifunctional flavin-dependent monooxygenase FlsO1-catalyzed unexpected xanthone formation The biosynthesis of xanthones has not been well documented. Here, the authors report that monooxygenase FlsO1… show more Chunfang Yang, Liping Zhang & Changsheng Zhang Article 14 September 2022 | Open Access Energy comparison of sequential and integrated CO2 capture and electrochemical conversion Coupling CO2 capture and electrolysis offers new opportunities to reduce energy cost. Here, the authors identify… show more Mengran Li, Erdem Irtem & Thomas Burdyny Article 14 September 2022 | Open Access Reversible hydrogen spillover in Ru-WO3-x enhances hydrogen evolution activity in neutral pH water splitting While water splitting electrolysis offers an appealing means to produce H2 fuel, catalysts show sluggish reaction… show more Jiadong Chen, Chunhong Chen & Yong Wang Article 14 September 2022 | Open Access Condensation droplet sieve Spontaneous droplet jumping and control of dropwise condensation are relevant for water-harvesting, heat transfer… show more Chen Ma, Li Chen & Quanshui Zheng Article 14 September 2022 | Open Access Assembly of transmembrane pores from mirror-image peptides Alpha-helix nanopores have a range of potential applications and the inclusion of non-natural amino acids allows… show more Smrithi Krishnan R, Kalyanashis Jana & Kozhinjampara R. Mahendran Article 14 September 2022 | Open Access Mesoscopic sliding ferroelectricity enabled photovoltaic random access memory for material-level artificial vision system Intelligent materials change their properties under external stimuli, integrating functionalities at the matter… show more Yan Sun, Shuting Xu & Yao Guo Article 14 September 2022 | Open Access In situ analysis of nanoparticle soft corona and dynamic evolution Characterizing the soft protein corona on nanoparticles i.e. the outer layer of the corona, remains a… show more Didar Baimanov, Jing Wang & Chunying Chen Article 13 September 2022 | Open Access Wide field imaging of van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2 by spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has been used extensively to encapsulate other van der Waals materials, protecting… show more Mengqi Huang, Jingcheng Zhou & Chunhui Rita Du Article 13 September 2022 | Open Access Optical quantum super-resolution imaging and hypothesis testing Estimating the angular separation between two incoherent sources below the diffraction limit is challenging.… show more Ugo Zanforlin, Cosmo Lupo & Zixin Huang Article 13 September 2022 | Open Access A platform for blue-luminescent carbon-centered radicals Organic radicals, which have unique doublet spin-configuration, provide an alternative method to overcome the… show more Xin Li, Yi-Lin Wang & Ying-Feng Han Article 13 September 2022 | Open Access High-fluence and high-gain multilayer focusing optics to enhance spatial resolution in femtosecond X-ray laser imaging Here, the authors realize an ultra-high fluence X-ray laser by high-gain multilayer focusing optics. This enables… show more Hirokatsu Yumoto, Takahisa Koyama & Haruhiko Ohashi Article 12 September 2022 | Open Access Localized interlayer excitons in MoSe2–WSe2 heterostructures without a moiré potential The spectrally narrow photoluminescence lines occurring in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD)… show more Fateme Mahdikhanysarvejahany, Daniel N. Shanks & John R. Schaibley Article 12 September 2022 | Open Access Depletable peroxidase-like activity of Fe3O4 nanozymes accompanied with separate migration of electrons and iron ions The mechanism of peroxidase-like Fe3O4 nanozymes remains elusive. Here, the authors show the electron transfer… show more Haijiao Dong, Wei Du & Yu Zhang Article 12 September 2022 | Open Access Self-repairing interphase reconstructed in each cycle for highly reversible aqueous zinc batteries Metallic zinc is an ideal anode material for aqueous rechargeable batteries but reversibility is a challenge.… show more Wenyao Zhang, Muyao Dong & Zhi Li Article 12 September 2022 | Open Access Microgel reinforced zwitterionic hydrogel coating for blood-contacting biomedical devices Zwitterionic hydrogels are nonfouling and hemocompatibility but several key challenges such as weak mechanical… show more Mengmeng Yao, Zhijian Wei & Junjie Li