03 December 2022 | Open Access Dual communities in spatial networks Here the authors introduce dual communities, characterized by strong connections at their boundaries, and show… show more Franz Kaiser, Philipp C. Böttcher & Dirk Witthaut Article 03 December 2022 | Open Access Disorder-dominated quantum criticality in moiré bilayers Recent experiments have revealed a metal-insulator transition in a moire bilayer at band filling away from the… show more Yuting Tan, Pak Ki Henry Tsang & Vladimir Dobrosavljević Article 03 December 2022 | Open Access Ultrafast light-induced dynamics in the microsolvated biomolecular indole chromophore with water Experimentally following the ultrafast dynamics of microsolvated molecules is challenging due to the inherently… show more Jolijn Onvlee, Sebastian Trippel & Jochen Küpper Article 03 December 2022 | Open Access A growth selection system for the directed evolution of amine-forming or converting enzymes Fast screening of enzymes is key for directed evolution of industrial biocatalysts. Here, the authors report a… show more Shuke Wu, Chao Xiang & Uwe T. Bornscheuer Article 03 December 2022 | Open Access Inverse design of 3D reconfigurable curvilinear modular origami structures using geometric and topological reconstructions Systematic inverse design for 3D curvilinear modular origami structures has not yet been reported. Here, the… show more Kai Xiao, Zihe Liang & Jaehyung Ju Article 03 December 2022 | Open Access Bead-jet printing enabled sparse mesenchymal stem cell patterning augments skeletal muscle and hair follicle regeneration Current mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) transplantation practices are limited by the loss or reduced performance of… show more Yuanxiong Cao, Jiayi Tan & Shaohua Ma Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access Quantum physics in connected worlds Quantum simulators allow for experimental studies of many-body systems in complex geometries, which has rarely… show more Joseph Tindall, Amy Searle & Dieter Jaksch Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access Photoinduced β-fragmentation of aliphatic alcohol derivatives for forging C–C bonds Transformations of alcohols, which are ubiquitous in chemistry and are native functionalities in many natural… show more Yiman Gao, Jie Liu & Lingchao Cai Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access Near-critical spreading of droplets Tanner’s law describes the spreading dynamics of droplets made of Newtonian viscous fluids. Here, the authors… show more Raphael Saiseau, Christian Pedersen & Jean-Pierre Delville Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access Reconfigurable neuromorphic memristor network for ultralow-power smart textile electronics Neuromorphic computing memristors are attractive to construct low-power- consumption electronic textiles. Here,… show more Tianyu Wang, Jialin Meng & Lin Chen Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access Synergistic passivation and stepped-dimensional perovskite analogs enable high-efficiency near-infrared light-emitting diodes Defect-assisted nonradiative recombination and carrier aggregation at the interface hinder the potential of… show more Yongjie Liu, Chen Tao & Guojia Fang Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access A dish-like molecular architecture for dynamic ultralong room-temperature phosphorescence through reversible guest accommodation Developing dynamic organic ultralong roomtemperature phosphorescence (URTP) remains challenging due to the… show more Wenlang Li, Qiuyi Huang & Zhenguo Chi Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access Photo-induced stress relaxation in reconfigurable disulfide-crosslinked supramolecular films visualized by dynamic wrinkling The mechanics of reconfigurable supramolecular polymer networks are governed by their dynamic crosslinking… show more Shuzhen Yan, Kaiming Hu & Xuesong Jiang Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access Turing patterns with high-resolution formed without chemical reaction in thin-film solution of organic semiconductors Regular patterns can form spontaneously in chemical reaction-diffusion systems under non-equilibrium conditions… show more Zezhong Xiang, Jin Li & Shunpu Li Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access A bioinspired flexible neuromuscular system based thermal-annealing-free perovskite with passivation Designing efficient brain-inspired electronics remains a challenge. Here, Liu et al. develop a flexible… show more Jiaqi Liu, Jiangdong Gong & Wentao Xu Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access Overcoming C60-induced interfacial recombination in inverted perovskite solar cells by electron-transporting carborane Effective transport layers are essential to suppress non-radiative recombination losses. Here, the authors… show more Fangyuan Ye, Shuo Zhang & Yongzhen Wu Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access Chemoenzymatic synthesis of sulfur-linked sugar polymers as heparanase inhibitors Heparin is a family of complex carbohydrates binding to proteins to modulate cell activities. Here the authors… show more Peng He, Xing Zhang & Paul L. DeAngelis Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access Total enzymatic synthesis of cis-α-irone from a simple carbon source Retrosynthetic pathway design using promiscuous enzymes can provide a solution to the biosynthetic production of… show more Xixian Chen, Rehka T & Isabelle André Article 02 December 2022 | Open Access Deciphering clinical abbreviations with a privacy protecting machine learning system Patient notes contain shorthand and abbreviations that may be jargon or clinical vernacular. Here the authors… show more Alvin Rajkomar, Eric Loreaux & Juraj Gottweis Article 01 December 2022 | Open Access Catalytic nitrogen fixation using visible light energy The development of a nitrogen fixation process that relies on the renewable energy, such as visible light, is an… show more Yuya Ashida, Yuto Onozuka & Yoshiaki Nishibayashi Article 01 December 2022 | Open Access A universal all-solid synthesis for high throughput production of halide perovskite Conventional wet chemistry method represents an inefficient way for bulk crystal synthesis. Here, the authors… show more Luyao Zheng, Amin Nozariasbmarz & Kai Wang Article 01 December 2022 | Open Access Azoarene activation for Schmidt-type reaction and mechanistic insights The Schmidt reaction enables nitrogen insertion across an aldehyde or ketone substrate by frequently using azide… show more Fan-Tao Meng, Ya-Nan Wang & Bo Jiang Article 01 December 2022 | Open Access The BrightEyes-TTM as an open-source time-tagging module for democratising single-photon microscopy The authors developed an open-source, low-cost, multi-channel time-tagging module for fluorescence lifetime image… show more Alessandro Rossetta, Eli Slenders & Giuseppe Vicidomini Article 01 December 2022 | Open Access A self-powered ingestible wireless biosensing system for real-time in situ monitoring of gastrointestinal tract metabolites Metabolic dynamics within the small intestine are difficult to study due to the lack of in situ access. Here, the… show more Ernesto De la Paz, Nikhil Harsha Maganti & Patrick P. Mercier Article 01 December 2022 | Open Access Qubit vitrification and entanglement criticality on a quantum simulator Non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems undergoing repeated measurements exhibit phase transitions in their… show more Jeremy Côté & Stefanos Kourtis Article 01 December 2022 | Open Access Small molecule binding to surface-supported single-site transition-metal reaction centres Surface-supported metalorganics promise the best of homogenous and heterogeneous catalysts. Here the authors show… show more M. DeJong, A. J. A. Price & S. A. Burke Article 01 December 2022 | Open Access Signatures of a magnetic-field-induced Lifshitz transition in the ultra-quantum limit of the topological semimetal ZrTe5 The ultra-quantum limit refers to the high magnetic-field regime where electrons are confined to the lowest… show more S. Galeski, H. F. Legg & J. Gooth Article 01 December 2022 | Open Access Splay-bend nematic phases of bent colloidal silica rods induced by polydispersity Different shapes of molecules or particles can exhibit various liquid crystal phases. The authors report on an… show more Ramakrishna Kotni, Albert Grau-Carbonell & Alfons van Blaaderen Article 01 December 2022 | Open Access Visual motion perception as online hierarchical inference How the human visual system leverages the rich structure in object motion for perception remains unclear. Here,… show more Johannes Bill, Samuel J. Gershman & Jan Drugowitsch Article 01 December 2022 | Open Access Intermittent scavenging of storage lesion from stored red blood cells by electrospun nanofibrous sheets enhances their quality and shelf-life In situ generated lesion of red blood cells decreases the quality of stored blood and limits its shelf-life.… show more Subhashini Pandey, Manohar Mahato & Praveen Kumar Vemula Article 30 November 2022 | Open Access Discovery of a maximally charged Weyl point Here the authors experimentally demonstrate a maximally charged Weyl point in a three dimensional photonic… show more Qiaolu Chen, Fujia Chen & Yihao Yang Article 30 November 2022 | Open Access Polymer nanoparticles pass the plant interface Nanoplastic contamination is a serious environmental concern and could have implications on plant life depending… show more Sam J. Parkinson, Sireethorn Tungsirisurp & Richard M. Napier Article 30 November 2022 | Open Access Fragmentation of outage clusters during the recovery of power distribution grids Here the authors, by using data from three electrical companies in the USA, find that the recovery duration of an… show more Hao Wu, Xiangyi Meng & Albert-László Barabási Article 30 November 2022 | Open Access Emergence of zero-field non-synthetic single and interchained antiferromagnetic skyrmions in thin films An intrinsic antiferromagnetic skyrmion is located entirely within a single atomic layer, rather than two coupled… show more Amal Aldarawsheh, Imara Lima Fernandes & Samir Lounis Article 30 November 2022 | Open Access A nuclease-mimetic platinum nanozyme induces concurrent DNA platination and oxidative cleavage to overcome cancer drug resistance One of the mechanisms underlying platinum (Pt) resistance is the spontaneous nucleotide-excision repair of cancer… show more Fangyuan Li, Heng Sun & Daishun Ling Article 30 November 2022 | Open Access Overcoming the low reactivity of biobased, secondary diols in polyester synthesis Glucose-derived isosorbide is a rigid polyester monomer with a low reactivity. Here, the authors report the… show more Daniel H. Weinland, Kevin van der Maas & Gert-Jan M. Gruter Article 30 November 2022 | Open Access Room-temperature polariton quantum fluids in halide perovskites Lead halide perovskites have recently emerged as a promising platform for the study of polariton superfluidity at… show more Kai Peng, Renjie Tao & Wei Bao Article 30 November 2022 | Open Access Real-time chirality transfer monitoring from statistically random to discrete homochiral nanotubes Monitoring chirality transfer during self-assembly processes is challenging. Here, the authors study the assembly… show more Shixin Fa, Tan-hao Shi & Tomoki Ogoshi Article 30 November 2022 | Open Access Inner southern magnetosphere observation of Mercury via SERENA ion sensors in BepiColombo mission BepiColombo mission had already two flybys of Mercury, over the total of six, as planned before entering the… show more S. Orsini, A. Milillo & A. Vorburger Article 30 November 2022 | Open Access Constraints on exotic spin-velocity-dependent interactions Exotic spin-dependent force are among the possible extensions of the Standard Model that can be probed by… show more Kai Wei, Wei Ji & Dmitry Budker Article 30 November 2022 | Open Access Entropically engineered formation of fivefold and icosahedral twinned clusters of colloidal shapes Fivefold and icosahedral symmetries in multiply twinned crystals can be used to influence the shape of synthetic… show more Sangmin Lee & Sharon C. Glotzer Article 30 November 2022 | Open Access Constraining surface properties of asteroid (162173) Ryugu from numerical simulations of Hayabusa2 mission impact experiment Hayabusa2 mission impact experiment on asteroid Ryugu formed a crater larger than expected. Here, the authors… show more Martin Jutzi, Sabina D. Raducan & Masahiko Arakawa Article 29 November 2022 | Open Access Lamellar carbon nitride membrane for enhanced ion sieving and water desalination Traditional carbon nitride membranes are generally presented with random stacking behavior leading to undesired… show more Yang Wang, Tingting Lian & Markus Antonietti Article 29 November 2022 | Open Access Asymptotically fault-tolerant programmable photonics Fabrication errors limit the scaling of programmable photonic circuits. Here the authors show how a broad class… show more Ryan Hamerly, Saumil Bandyopadhyay & Dirk Englund Article 29 November 2022 | Open Access Reactive metal boride nanoparticles trap lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan for bacteria-infected wound healing Antibacterial wound healing approaches often target bacteria but overlook the inflammation response caused by… show more Yun Meng, Lijie Chen & Wenbo Bu Article 29 November 2022 | Open Access Ultrastrong MXene films via the synergy of intercalating small flakes and interfacial bridging Potential application of Titanium carbide MXene in wearable devices is limited by the formation of voids during… show more Sijie Wan, Xiang Li & Qunfeng Cheng Article 29 November 2022 | Open Access Acousto-holographic reconstruction of whole-cell stiffness maps Traditional methods for cell stiffness measurements are limited by long processing times and unsuitability for… show more Rahmetullah Varol, Zeynep Karavelioglu & Huseyin Uvet Article 29 November 2022 | Open Access Rolling microswarms along acoustic virtual walls The application of rolling motion to microswarm navigation and cargo delivery has been constrained by the need… show more Zhiyuan Zhang, Alexander Sukhov & Daniel Ahmed Article 29 November 2022 | Open Access Highly tunable β-relaxation enables the tailoring of crystallization in phase-change materials The crystallization of phase-change materials is relevant to their applications in memory and neuromorphic… show more Yudong Cheng, Qun Yang & Shuai Wei Article 28 November 2022 | Open Access Paired electrolysis-enabled nickel-catalyzed enantioselective reductive cross-coupling between α-chloroesters and aryl bromides Precise matching of reaction rate and electric potential of electrodes in paired electrolysis is challenging.… show more Dong Liu, Zhao-Ran Liu & Tian-Sheng Mei