Article 20 October 2022 | Open Access Slow light in a 2D semiconductor plasmonic structure Slow light effects are interesting for telecommunications and quantum photonics applications. Here, the authors… show more Matthew Klein, Rolf Binder & John R. Schaibley Article 20 October 2022 | Open Access Large area polymer semiconductor sub-microwire arrays by coaxial focused electrohydrodynamic jet printing for high-performance OFETs Here, the authors fabricate large area and highly aligned polymer semiconductor sub-microwires arrays via coaxial… show more Dazhi Wang, Liangkun Lu & Yunqi Liu Article 20 October 2022 | Open Access Flexible learning of quantum states with generative query neural networks The use of machine learning to characterise quantum states has been demonstrated, but usually training the… show more Yan Zhu, Ya-Dong Wu & Giulio Chiribella Article 20 October 2022 | Open Access Low-bias photoelectrochemical water splitting via mediating trap states and small polaron hopping While photoelectrochemical water splitting produces fuel from solar energy, a large fraction of photoanode… show more Hao Wu, Lei Zhang & Yun Hau Ng Article 20 October 2022 | Open Access Technology readiness levels for machine learning systems The development of machine learning systems has to ensure their robustness and reliability. The authors introduce… show more Alexander Lavin, Ciarán M. Gilligan-Lee & Yarin Gal Article 20 October 2022 | Open Access Tuning the many-body interactions in a helical Luttinger liquid In one-dimensional systems, electronic interactions lead to a breakdown of Fermi liquid theory and the formation… show more Junxiang Jia, Elizabeth Marcellina & Bent Weber Article 20 October 2022 | Open Access An unconstrained approach to systematic structural and energetic screening of materials interfaces Predicting structures and stabilities of solid-solid interfaces presents an ongoing and increasingly important… show more Giovanni Di Liberto, Ángel Morales-García & Stefan T. Bromley Article 20 October 2022 | Open Access Epidemic spreading under mutually independent intra- and inter-host pathogen evolution In modelling of epidemic spreading processes, a reproduction number is crucial to shape the model dynamics. The… show more Xiyun Zhang, Zhongyuan Ruan & Baruch Barzel Article 20 October 2022 | Open Access Force-triggered rapid microstructure growth on hydrogel surface for on-demand functions Living organisms are able to grow structures on their surface for specific applications. Here, the authors report… show more Qifeng Mu, Kunpeng Cui & Jian Ping Gong Article 20 October 2022 | Open Access Dynamical control of quantum heat engines using exceptional points Investigations of quantum thermal machines and Liouvillian exceptional points have rarely crossed each other.… show more J.-W. Zhang, J.-Q. Zhang & M. Feng Article 20 October 2022 | Open Access Synthetic five-wave mixing in an integrated microcavity for visible-telecom entanglement generation High-order optical nonlinearities are a key tool in photonics and quantum optics, but their use is hindered by… show more Jia-Qi Wang, Yuan-Hao Yang & C.-L. Zou Article 20 October 2022 | Open Access Direct observation of photoinduced carrier blocking in mixed-dimensional 2D/3D perovskites and the origin Mixed dimensional 2D/3D halide perovskite solar cells practically deliver poorer efficiency, and the 2D fragments… show more Dejian Yu, Fei Cao & Guichuan Xing Article 19 October 2022 | Open Access Untangling the threads of cellulose mercerization During mercerization, cellulose undergoes a conversion from form I to form II which involves change of the… show more Daisuke Sawada, Yoshiharu Nishiyama & Paul Langan Article 19 October 2022 | Open Access Periodic structural changes in Pd nanoparticles during oscillatory CO oxidation reaction Atomic-scale insights into how a nanoparticle surface reconstructs under reaction conditions and the impact of… show more Tanmay Ghosh, Juan Manuel Arce-Ramos & Utkur Mirsaidov Article 19 October 2022 | Open Access Systematic design of cell membrane coating to improve tumor targeting of nanoparticles Surface modification of nanoparticles by cell membrane (CM) coating to improve their bio-interface properties… show more Lizhi Liu, Dingyi Pan & Vesa-Pekka Lehto Article 19 October 2022 | Open Access Controlled large non-reciprocal charge transport in an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 Non-reciprocal charge transport refers to the different resistance between positive and negative current, and is… show more Zhaowei Zhang, Naizhou Wang & Wei-bo Gao Article 19 October 2022 | Open Access Search for Dark Matter Axions with CAST-CAPP Haloscopes aim at detecting axions by converting them into photons using high-quality resonant cavities, where… show more C. M. Adair, K. Altenmüller & K. Zioutas Article 19 October 2022 | Open Access Zero energy states clustering in an elemental nanowire coupled to a superconductor Topological superconductivity (TSC) is predicted to exist in nanowires with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) when… show more Lauriane C. Contamin, Lucas Jarjat & Matthieu R. Delbecq Article 19 October 2022 | Open Access Stabilization of three-dimensional charge order through interplanar orbital hybridization in PrxY1−xBa2Cu3O6+δ External perturbations can induce 3D charge order in cuprates, but the 3D correlation length is limited and the… show more Alejandro Ruiz, Brandon Gunn & Alex Frano Article 19 October 2022 | Open Access Molecular doping of nucleic acids into light emitting crystals driven by multisite-intermolecular interaction DNAs exhibit a unique molecular doping structure, unseen in conventional hybrid assemblies, when doped into… show more Woo Hyuk Jung, Jin Hyuk Park & Dong June Ahn Article 19 October 2022 | Open Access Supramolecular photodynamic agents for simultaneous oxidation of NADH and generation of superoxide radical Tumour hypoxia is a major issue for conventional photodynamic therapies, Here, the authors report on the… show more Kun-Xu Teng, Li-Ya Niu & Qing-Zheng Yang Article 19 October 2022 | Open Access Coupling photocatalytic water oxidation with reductive transformations of organic molecules While reductive coupling strategies in organic synthesis are crucial, most require additional sacrificial or… show more Xinzhe Tian, Yinggang Guo & Xin Zheng Article 18 October 2022 | Open Access A medium-entropy transition metal oxide cathode for high-capacity lithium metal batteries Structural instability is a major drawback of high-capacity lithium-based battery cathodes. Here, the authors… show more Yi Pei, Qing Chen & Cheng-Yan Xu Article 18 October 2022 | Open Access Controlled filamentation instability as a scalable fabrication approach to flexible metamaterials The simple and scalable fabrication of high aspect ratio encapsulated flexible nanowire arrays with controlled… show more William Esposito, Louis Martin-Monier & Fabien Sorin Article 18 October 2022 | Open Access Observation and control of Casimir effects in a sphere-plate-sphere system Experimental studies of the Casimir effect have involved only interactions between two bodies so far. Here, the… show more Zhujing Xu, Peng Ju & Tongcang Li Article 18 October 2022 | Open Access Biferroelectricity of a homochiral organic molecule in both solid crystal and liquid crystal phases Ferroelectricity normally exists in either solid crystals or liquid crystals. Here, the authors report a… show more Xian-Jiang Song, Xiao-Gang Chen & Wei-Qiang Liao Article 18 October 2022 | Open Access Membrane-based TBADT recovery as a strategy to increase the sustainability of continuous-flow photocatalytic HAT transformations Decatungstate-enabled Hydrogen Atom Transfer (HAT) photocatalysis of hydrocarbon scaffolds enabled rapid access… show more Zhenghui Wen, Diego Pintossi & Timothy Noël Article 18 October 2022 | Open Access Direct visualization of Rashba-split bands and spin/orbital-charge interconversion at KTaO3 interfaces Visualization of the Rashbasplit bands in oxide two-dimensional electron gases is lacking, which hampers… show more Sara Varotto, Annika Johansson & Manuel Bibes Article 18 October 2022 | Open Access Designing fuel cell catalyst support for superior catalytic activity and low mass-transport resistance Development of high-performance polymer electrolyte fuel cells has historically focused on designing new… show more Muhammad Naoshad Islam, Abdul Bashith Mansoor Basha & Kunal Karan Article 18 October 2022 | Open Access The coupling of the hydrated proton to its first solvation shell The Zundel [H(H2O)2]+ and Eigen [H(H2O)4]+ cations exhibit radicallly different infrared spectra and are the… show more Markus Schröder, Fabien Gatti & Oriol Vendrell Article 18 October 2022 | Open Access Exceptional catalytic activity of oxygen evolution reaction via two-dimensional graphene multilayer confined metal-organic frameworks While metal-organic frameworks offer a diverse array of structural motifs for electrocatalysis, poor conductivity… show more Siliu Lyu, Chenxi Guo & Yang Hou Article 18 October 2022 | Open Access Interactions between Fermi polarons in monolayer WS2 Here, the authors investigate the interactions between Fermi polarons in monolayer WS2 by multi-dimensional… show more Jack B. Muir, Jesper Levinsen & Jeffrey A. Davis Article 18 October 2022 | Open Access Seismic events miss important kinematically governed grain scale mechanisms during shear failure of porous rock Sound and Vision: In-situ synchrotron x-ray imaging with simultaneous acoustic monitoring captures grain scale… show more Alexis Cartwright-Taylor, Maria-Daphne Mangriotis & Oxana V. Magdysyuk Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access Topological phononics arising from fluid-solid interactions Fluid-solid interaction, long investigated, is mostly neglected in topological acoustics. Here the authors find… show more Xiaoxiao Wu, Haiyan Fan & Xiang Zhang Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access Continuous entanglement distribution over a transnational 248 km fiber link Fibre-based entanglement distribution represents a key primitive for quantum applications such as QKD. Here, the… show more Sebastian Philipp Neumann, Alexander Buchner & Rupert Ursin Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access Organic radicals stabilization above 300 °C in Eu-based coordination polymers for solar steam generation Organic radicals have potential applications in a variety of fields, including energy conversion. Here, the… show more Xinhe Ye, Lai-Hon Chung & Jun He Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access Kondo quasiparticle dynamics observed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering The fate of high-energy degrees of freedom, such as spin-orbit interactions, in the coherent state of Kondo… show more M. C. Rahn, K. Kummer & M. Janoschek Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access A scalable platform to discover antimicrobials of ribosomal origin Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides are a source of antimicrobials. Here, the… show more Richard S. Ayikpoe, Chengyou Shi & Huimin Zhao Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access Two-dimensional multiferroic material of metallic p-doped SnSe 2D multiferroic materials have garnered broad interests due to their magnetoelectric properties and… show more Ruofan Du, Yuzhu Wang & Jun He Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access Accelerated pyro-catalytic hydrogen production enabled by plasmonic local heating of Au on pyroelectric BaTiO3 nanoparticles While pyrocatalysis offers a means to store energy in chemical bonds from temperature changes, most materials… show more Huilin You, Siqi Li & Haitao Huang Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access Remodeling nanodroplets into hierarchical mesoporous silica nanoreactors with multiple chambers Multi-chambered structures have attracted great attention due to their ability to create multifunctional… show more Yuzhu Ma, Hongjin Zhang & Dongyuan Zhao Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access Two-dimensional materials-based probabilistic synapses and reconfigurable neurons for measuring inference uncertainty using Bayesian neural networks Designing efficient Bayesian neural networks remains a challenge. Here, the authors use the cycle variation in… show more Amritanand Sebastian, Rahul Pendurthi & Saptarshi Das Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access Anisotropic long-range spin transport in canted antiferromagnetic orthoferrite YFeO3 Antiferromagnets have attracted interest for spin-based information processing due to their resilience to stray… show more Shubhankar Das, A. Ross & M. Kläui Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access Selective activation of four quasi-equivalent C–H bonds yields N-doped graphene nanoribbons with partial corannulene motifs Selective activation of C–H bonds is a key challenge in organic reactions. Here, the authors achieve the… show more Yixuan Gao, Li Huang & Hong-Jun Gao Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access Facet effect of hematite on the hydrolysis of phthalate esters under ambient humidity conditions With a combined experimental and computational study, Jin et al. demonstrate that hematite nanoparticles can… show more Xin Jin, Dingding Wu & Cheng Gu Article 17 October 2022 | Open Access Genetic model of the El Laco magnetite-apatite deposits by extrusion of iron-rich melt Can volcanoes erupt ore deposits? This study combines observations, experiments, and simulations to show that… show more Tobias Keller, Fernando Tornos & Jenny Suckale Article 16 October 2022 | Open Access Cascade cyclization of alkene-tethered acylsilanes and allylic sulfones enabled by unproductive energy transfer photocatalysis Acylsilanes decompose under light irradiation, and this limits their use in light-induced organic… show more Yunxiao Zhang, Yizhi Zhang & Xiao Shen Article 15 October 2022 | Open Access High-resolution neutron imaging of salt precipitation and water transport in zero-gap CO2 electrolysis The electrochemical reduction of CO2 is pivotal for the chemical industry to reach climate neutrality. Here, the… show more Joey Disch, Luca Bohn & Severin Vierrath Article 15 October 2022 | Open Access Spray-coated perovskite hemispherical photodetector featuring narrow-band and wide-angle imaging Hemispherical photodetectors allow wide sight angle without the complex optical paths of fisheye lenses. Here,… show more Xiaopeng Feng, Yuhong He & Haotong Wei Article 15 October 2022 | Open Access Promoting nickel oxidation state transitions in single-layer NiFeB hydroxide nanosheets for efficient oxygen evolution While water-splitting electrolysis offers a potential renewable means to store energy, the oxygen evolution… show more Yuke Bai, Yu Wu & Chuanbo Gao