Physical sciences articles within Nature Communications Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Multi-chiral materials comprising metallosupramolecular and covalent helical polymers containing five axial motifs within a helix The axial helical structure of supramolecular and covalent polymers provides communication mechanisms among… show more Francisco Rey- Tarrío, Emilio Quiñoá & Félix Freire Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Integrated quantum optical phase sensor in thin film lithium niobate Squeezed light allows for quantum-enhanced, sub-shot-noise sensing, but its generation and use on a chip has so… show more Hubert S. Stokowski, Timothy P. McKenna & Amir H. Safavi-Naeini Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Absence of critical thickness for polar skyrmions with breaking the Kittel’s law Here, the authors find that ferroelectric skyrmions can be sustained in [(PbTiO3)2/(SrTiO3)2]m ultrathin… show more Feng-Hui Gong, Yun-Long Tang & Xiu-Liang Ma Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Realistic phase diagram of water from “first principles” data-driven quantum simulations The molecular modelling of water has been a long sought-after goal in computational sciences for more than 50… show more Sigbjørn Løland Bore & Francesco Paesani Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Ligand effect on switching the rate-determining step of water oxidation in atomically precise metal nanoclusters Surface modification using organic molecules is crucial for tailoring the physicochemical properties of… show more Zhihe Liu, Hua Tan & Jianping Xie Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Enantioselective synthesis of chiral quinohelicenes through sequential organocatalyzed Povarov reaction and oxidative aromatization Heterohelicenes are of increasing importance in materials science but organocatalytic enantioselective synthesis… show more Chengwen Li, Ying-Bo Shao & Xin Li Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Uncovering the chiral bias of meteoritic isovaline through asymmetric photochemistry Excess of L-amino acids in meteorites suggests an extraterrestrial origin of biomolecular homochirality, which… show more Jana Bocková, Nykola C. Jones & Cornelia Meinert Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Direct determination of high-order transverse ligand field parameters via µSQUID-EPR in a Et4N[160GdPc2] SMM Single molecule magnets (SMMs) are molecules with magnetic states separated by an energy barrier. These two (or… show more Gheorghe Taran, Eufemio Moreno-Pineda & Wolfgang Wernsdorfer Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Single-electron charge transfer into putative Majorana and trivial modes in individual vortices Majorana bound states are an elusive but promising platform for future topological quantum computation. Here, the… show more Jian-Feng Ge, Koen M. Bastiaans & Milan P. Allan Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Manipulating local coordination of copper single atom catalyst enables efficient CO2-to-CH4 conversion Developing efficient electrocatalysts for selective CO2 conversion is of high interest. Here the authors… show more Yizhou Dai, Huan Li & Jie Zeng Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Pore partition in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks The development of ultramicroporous covalent organic frameworks (COFs) remains a daunting challenge. Here, the… show more Xiaoyi Xu, Xinyu Wu & Ning Huang Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Enhanced spin Seebeck effect via oxygen manipulation Thermoelectric effects can be used to convert waste heat into electricity. One particularly promising… show more Jeong-Mok Kim, Seok-Jong Kim & Byong-Guk Park Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access High-efficiency bio-inspired hybrid multi-generation photovoltaic leaf Most sunlight received by photovoltaic panels is converted to and lost as heat, increasing their temperature and… show more Gan Huang, Jingyuan Xu & Christos N. Markides Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Bioinspired engineering of fusogen and targeting moiety equipped nanovesicles Active targeting and cytosolic delivery of therapeutic payloads are challenging in small extracellular… show more Lixue Wang, Guosheng Wang & Yuan Wan Article 08 June 2023 | Open Access Data fusion and multivariate analysis for food authenticity analysis Using two different mass spectrometric platforms, authors demonstrate how metabolomic data fusion and… show more Yunhe Hong, Nicholas Birse & Christopher T. Elliott Article 07 June 2023 | Open Access Migratory allylic arylation of 1,n-enols enabled by nickel catalysis Allylic substitution reactions have emerged as a powerful tool for the construction of C − C/X bonds. Here, the… show more Dan Zhao, Bing Xu & Can Zhu Article 07 June 2023 | Open Access Ketone α-alkylation at the more-hindered site Ketone α-alkylation at the more hindered site is challenging. Here, the authors report a highly regioselective… show more Ming-Ming Li, Tianze Zhang & Qi-Lin Zhou Article 07 June 2023 | Open Access All-silicon quantum light source by embedding an atomic emissive center in a nanophotonic cavity The use of silicon for integrated quantum photonic technologies is currently hindered by the lack of suitable… show more W. Redjem, Y. Zhiyenbayev & B. Kanté Article 07 June 2023 | Open Access Two-photon imaging of soliton dynamics The authors present a moving-parts-free approach for visualizing soliton motion in optical cavities that lifts… show more Łukasz A. Sterczewski & Jarosław Sotor Article 07 June 2023 | Open Access Three-dimensional printing of silica glass with sub-micrometer resolution Silica glass is a high-performance material used in most branches of society from glassware and windows to… show more Po-Han Huang, Miku Laakso & Frank Niklaus Article 07 June 2023 | Open Access Visualizing the multi-level assembly structures of conjugated molecular systems with chain-length dependent behavior A deep understanding of multi-level assembly structures of conjugated polymers is crucial for developing high… show more Yang-Yang Zhou, Yu-Chun Xu & Jian Pei Article 07 June 2023 | Open Access Single-site decorated copper enables energy- and carbon-efficient CO2 methanation in acidic conditions Conventional alkaline and neutral CO2-to-CH4 systems suffer carbon loss, and recovering the lost carbon requires… show more Mengyang Fan, Rui Kai Miao & David Sinton Article 07 June 2023 | Open Access A porous metal-organic cage liquid for sustainable CO2 conversion reactions Preparation of porous liquids are fluids with the permanent porosity still requires complicated and tedious use… show more Chang He, Yu-Huang Zou & Yuan-Biao Huang Article 07 June 2023 | Open Access Electrostatic control of the proximity effect in the bulk of semiconductor-superconductor hybrids The proximity effect in semiconductor-superconductor nanowires is expected to generate an induced gap in the… show more Nick van Loo, Grzegorz P. Mazur & Leo P. Kouwenhoven Article 07 June 2023 | Open Access The supercurrent diode effect and nonreciprocal paraconductivity due to the chiral structure of nanotubes The authors theoretically predict a superconducting diode effect in chiral nanotubes when a magnetic field is… show more James Jun He, Yukio Tanaka & Naoto Nagaosa Article 07 June 2023 | Open Access Coherent Stokes Raman scattering microscopy (CSRS) Coherent Stokes Raman scattering (CSRS) has never been explored previously for chemical imaging due to a strong… show more Sandro Heuke & Hervé Rigneault Article 07 June 2023 | Open Access Eye tracking and eye expression decoding based on transparent, flexible and ultra-persistent electrostatic interface Eye tracking systems are crucial for eye health-monitoring and human-machine engineering. Here, Shi et. al.… show more Yuxiang Shi, Peng Yang & Xiangyu Chen Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Giant optomechanical spring effect in plasmonic nano- and picocavities probed by surface-enhanced Raman scattering Extreme confinement of light in plasmonic nanocavities strongly enhances the optomechanical coupling of light… show more Lukas A. Jakob, William M. Deacon & Jeremy J. Baumberg Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Copper-catalyzed asymmetric C(sp3)-H cyanoalkylation of glycine derivatives and peptides Incorporating cyanoalkyl moieties into amino acids and peptides is of interest for potential imaging and… show more Rupeng Qi, Qiao Chen & Zhaoqing Xu Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Revealing CO2 dissociation pathways at vicinal copper (997) interfaces Catalytic CO2 dissociation pathways are selectively determined by surface geometry in heterogeneous catalysis.… show more Jeongjin Kim, Youngseok Yu & Jeong Young Park Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Assessment of the technological viability of photoelectrochemical devices for oxygen and fuel production on Moon and Mars Long-term space missions to the Moon and Mars rely on sunlight as an energy source. Here, authors assess the… show more Byron Ross, Sophia Haussener & Katharina Brinkert Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Refractive plasma optics for relativistic laser beams Intense laser interaction with matter creates plasma which can act as a nonlinear optical medium. Here the… show more Omri Seemann, Yang Wan & Victor Malka Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Underlying factors determining grain morphologies in high-strength titanium alloys processed by additive manufacturing Predictive scheme for Ti alloys with equiaxed microstructures is often limited by the methods based on growth… show more Mohan S. K. K. Y. Nartu, Brian A. Welk & Hamish L. Fraser Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Coherent dynamics of strongly interacting electronic spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride The boron vacancy center in hBN has been intensively studied, but its characterizations have remained limited.… show more Ruotian Gong, Guanghui He & Chong Zu Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Eye accommodation-inspired neuro-metasurface focusing Here the authors propose for the first time the concept of supervised-evolving learning (SEL) and a corresponding… show more Huan Lu, Jiwei Zhao & Hongsheng Chen Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Half-Heusler alloys as emerging high power density thermoelectric cooling materials Here, the authors increase the grain size of Nb0.55Ta0.4Ti0.05FeSb by three orders of magnitude by Sb-pressure… show more Hangtian Zhu, Wenjie Li & Bed Poudel Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Thermally stable threshold selector based on CuAg alloy for energy-efficient memory and neuromorphic computing applications Designing efficient selector devices remains a challenge. Here, the authors propose a CuAg alloy-based selector… show more Xi Zhou, Liang Zhao & Dongdong Li Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Whistler-mode chorus waves at Mars Although whistler-mode chorus waves are common in the Earth’s and other planetary magnetospheres, the mechanism… show more Shangchun Teng, Yifan Wu & Xin Tao Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Reversibly growing crosslinked polymers with programmable sizes and properties Growth constitutes a powerful method to post-modulate materials’ structures and functions without compromising… show more Xiaozhuang Zhou, Yijun Zheng & Jiaxi Cui Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access PIE-seq: identifying RNA-binding protein targets by dual RNA-deaminase editing and sequencing Tracking protein-RNA interaction across cell types is challenging. Here, Ruan et al develop a dual-deaminase… show more Xiangbin Ruan, Kaining Hu & Xiaochang Zhang Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access Drug screening at single-organoid resolution via bioprinting and interferometry Traditional 2D cell culture platforms do not accurately reflect the physiology of human tumors. Here, authors… show more Peyton J. Tebon, Bowen Wang & Alice Soragni Article 06 June 2023 | Open Access In-vivo programmable acoustic manipulation of genetically engineered bacteria In vivo manipulation of cells has applications in cell-based therapy, tissue engineering and targeted drug… show more Ye Yang, Yaozhang Yang & Hairong Zheng Article 05 June 2023 | Open Access Characterization of diffusing sub-10 nm nano-objects using single anti-resonant element optical fibers Characterizing diffusing species is increasingly important for revealing nanoscale processes. Here, the authors… show more Torsten Wieduwilt, Ronny Förster & Markus A. Schmidt Article 05 June 2023 | Open Access Lanthanide-doped MoS2 with enhanced oxygen reduction activity and biperiodic chemical trends Oxygen reduction reaction plays a key role in many applications of MoS2-based materials. Here, using… show more Yu Hao, Liping Wang & Liang-Feng Huang Article 05 June 2023 | Open Access Ambient-conditions spinning of functional soft fibers via engineering molecular chain networks and phase separation Producing functional soft fibers via existing spinning methods is environmentally and economically costly due to… show more Songlin Zhang, Mengjuan Zhou & Swee Ching Tan Article 05 June 2023 | Open Access Acetolysis of waste polyethylene terephthalate for upcycling and life-cycle assessment study The recycling of polyethylene terephthalate is of utmost importance to reduce environmental pollution and… show more Yuantao Peng, Jie Yang & Yao Fu Article 05 June 2023 | Open Access Self-healable polymer complex with a giant ionic thermoelectric effect Thermoelectric devices have received significant attention for energy generation owing to their unique advantages… show more Dong-Hu Kim, Zico Alaia Akbar & Sung-Yeon Jang Article 05 June 2023 | Open Access Observation of bulk quadrupole in topological heat transport Topological transport in thermal diffusion is governed by physical principles that are distinct from those… show more Guoqiang Xu, Xue Zhou & Cheng-Wei Qiu Article 05 June 2023 | Open Access Point singularity array with metasurfaces Optical singularities are typically 1D structures like vortices. This study used metasurfaces to position ten… show more Soon Wei Daniel Lim, Joon-Suh Park & Federico Capasso Article 05 June 2023 | Open Access Quantum simulation of Hawking radiation and curved spacetime with a superconducting on-chip black hole Recently, the theory of Hawking radiation of a black hole has been tested in several analogue platforms. Shi et… show more Yun-Hao Shi, Run-Qiu Yang & Heng Fan