Article 20 June 2023 | Open Access Substantially enhanced homogeneous plastic flow in hierarchically nanodomained amorphous alloys Topological heterostructures are desired in metallic glasses to improve their mechanical properties. Here, the… show more Ge Wu, Sida Liu & Zhi-Wei Shan Article 20 June 2023 | Open Access Upconversion particle-assisted NIR polymerization enables microdomain gradient photopolymerization at inter-particulate length scale High crosslinking and low shrinkage stress are difficult to reconcile in the preparation of performance-enhancing… show more Peng Hu, Hang Xu & Ren Liu Article 20 June 2023 | Open Access Bayesian-optimization-assisted discovery of stereoselective aluminum complexes for ring-opening polymerization of racemic lactide Stereoselective catalysts impact polymer’s properties, but discovering such catalysts is expensive and based on… show more Xiaoqian Wang, Yang Huang & Rong Tong Article 20 June 2023 | Open Access Pangolin-inspired untethered magnetic robot for on-demand biomedical heating applications Untethered soft robots developed to date display limited functionalities beyond locomotion and cargo delivery.… show more Ren Hao Soon, Zhen Yin & Metin Sitti Article 19 June 2023 | Open Access Production of high-energy 6-Ah-level Li | |LiNi0.83Co0.11Mn0.06O2 multi-layer pouch cells via negative electrode protective layer coating strategy Stable lithium metal electrodes are needed to produce high-energy batteries. Here, authors reported… show more Yangyang Feng, Yong Li & Yaobing Wang Article 19 June 2023 | Open Access Fe/Cu diatomic catalysts for electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia Nitrate electroreduction to ammonia can decrease pollutants and produce high-value ammonia. Here, the authors… show more Shuo Zhang, Jianghua Wu & Jun Lu Article 19 June 2023 | Open Access Field-induced partial disorder in a Shastry-Sutherland lattice Shastry-Sutherland lattice materials offer a rich variety of accessible magnetic phases however, only a few have… show more Madalynn Marshall, Brianna R. Billingsley & Huibo Cao Article 19 June 2023 | Open Access Asynchronous locking in metamaterials of fluids of light and sound Exciton-polariton condensates are hybrid systems with nonlinear interactions. Here the authors demonstrate… show more D. L. Chafatinos, A. S. Kuznetsov & A. Fainstein Article 19 June 2023 | Open Access Emergent and robust ferromagnetic-insulating state in highly strained ferroelastic LaCoO3 thin films Transition metal oxides are a promising class of materials to engineer multiferroic properties for… show more Dong Li, Hongguang Wang & Weiwei Li Article 19 June 2023 | Open Access CP2 skyrmions and skyrmion crystals in realistic quantum magnets Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures, most notably occurring in magnetic materials. So far, the… show more Hao Zhang, Zhentao Wang & Cristian D. Batista Article 19 June 2023 | Open Access Simultaneous single-qubit driving of semiconductor spin qubits at the fault-tolerant threshold As the size of quantum processors scales up, accurate characterization of errors due to various crosstalks… show more W. I. L. Lawrie, M. Rimbach-Russ & M. Veldhorst Article 19 June 2023 | Open Access Activating hidden signals by mimicking cryptic sites in a synthetic extracellular matrix In this work, the authors synthetized hydrogels that mimic cryptic sites in the native extracellular matrix (ECM)… show more Yumeng Zhu, Yulia Shmidov & John B. Matson Article 19 June 2023 | Open Access Charge density wave induced nodal lines in LaTe3 Kramers nodal lines are doubly degenerate nodal lines connecting time-reversal invariant momenta, which are… show more Shuvam Sarkar, Joydipto Bhattacharya & Sudipta Roy Barman Article 19 June 2023 | Open Access 400nm ultra-broadband gratings for near-single-cycle 100 Petawatt lasers Gratings are used for pulse compression and stretching in chirped pulse amplification (CPA) or optical parametric… show more Yuxing Han, Zhaoyang Li & Jianda Shao Article 19 June 2023 | Open Access Low power flexible monolayer MoS2 integrated circuits The application of 2D MoS2 flexible integrated circuits (ICs) is currently limited by the material quality over… show more Jian Tang, Qinqin Wang & Guangyu Zhang Article 19 June 2023 | Open Access Collective photothermal bending of flexible organic crystals modified with MXene-polymer multilayers as optical waveguide arrays Organic crystals represent potential alternatives to silicon dioxide due to their high flexibility and… show more Xuesong Yang, Linfeng Lan & Hongyu Zhang Article 17 June 2023 | Open Access A corrosion-resistant RuMoNi catalyst for efficient and long-lasting seawater oxidation and anion exchange membrane electrolyzer Direct seawater electrolysis is promising for sustainable hydrogen production but suffers severe side reactions… show more Xin Kang, Fengning Yang & Bilu Liu Article 17 June 2023 | Open Access Predicting frictional aging from bulk relaxation measurements Increase of friction between two solid surfaces in stationary contact over time, known as frictional aging, has… show more Kasra Farain & Daniel Bonn Article 17 June 2023 | Open Access Morphogenesis of starfish polymersomes Polymeric vesicles are promising candidates for use in a range of applications including drug delivery and cell… show more Jiawei Sun, Sandra Kleuskens & Daniela A. Wilson Article 17 June 2023 | Open Access Snowflake-inspired and blink-driven flexible piezoelectric contact lenses for effective corneal injury repair The cornea is susceptible to various injuries with a complicated repair process. Here, the authors propose a… show more Guang Yao, Xiaoyi Mo & Yuan Lin Article 17 June 2023 | Open Access Strain and crystallographic identification of the helically concaved gap surfaces of chiral nanoparticles Identifying the 3D crystal plane and strain field distributions of nanocrystals with concave surfaces is… show more Sungwook Choi, Sang Won Im & Hyunjung Kim Article 17 June 2023 | Open Access Direct laser writing of 3D electrodes on flexible substrates This report describes a 3D microelectrode array integrated on a thin-film flexible cable using traditional… show more Morgan A. Brown, Kara M. Zappitelli & Timothy J. Gardner Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Pen-drawn Marangoni swimmer Marangoni swimmers have high relative speed, considering the body length and absence of a mechanical system but… show more Seo Woo Song, Sumin Lee & Jiyun Kim Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Enabling long-cycling aqueous sodium-ion batteries via Mn dissolution inhibition using sodium ferrocyanide electrolyte additive Mn-based Prussian blue is an ideal positive electrode material for aqueous sodium-ion batteries but still suffers… show more Zhaoheng Liang, Fei Tian & Chengxin Wang Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Tunable CO2 electroreduction to ethanol and ethylene with controllable interfacial wettability The mechanism of how interfacial wettability impacts the CO2 electcgq Herein, the authors describe the design and… show more Yan Lin, Tuo Wang & Jinlong Gong Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Stochastic representation of many-body quantum states Variational approaches combined with machine learning are promising for solving quantum many-body problems, but… show more Hristiana Atanasova, Liam Bernheimer & Guy Cohen Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Understanding capacity fade in organic redox-flow batteries by combining spectroscopy with statistical inference techniques Organic redox-flow batteries have the potential to cheaply store renewable electricity at grid scale but require… show more Sanat Vibhas Modak, Wanggang Shen & David G. Kwabi Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Tyrosine residues initiated photopolymerization in living organisms Developing a biocompatible polymerization system applicable for the synthesis of intrinsically non-natural… show more Mei Zhu, Shengliang Wang & Xin Huang Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Tuning orbital-selective phase transitions in a two-dimensional Hund’s correlated system Hund’s coupling, or the intra-atomic exchange, can drive novel quantum phases in multi-orbital systems, but this… show more Eun Kyo Ko, Sungsoo Hahn & Tae Won Noh Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Local spectroscopy of a gate-switchable moiré quantum anomalous Hall insulator Twisted moiré heterostructures offer a highly tunable solid-state platform for exploring fundamental condensed… show more Canxun Zhang, Tiancong Zhu & Michael F. Crommie Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Deep optoacoustic localization microangiography of ischemic stroke in mice Optoacoustic super-resolution at millimeter-scale depths has been impeded by the strong background absorption… show more Xosé Luís Deán-Ben, Justine Robin & Daniel Razansky Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Vacuole dynamics and popping-based motility in liquid droplets of DNA In this work, the authors report the appearance of vacuoles within the droplets of an enzyme-driven biomolecular… show more Omar A. Saleh, Sam Wilken & Tim Liedl Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Prediction of sub-pyramid texturing as the next step towards high efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells The unexpected crystalline silicon epitaxial growth and interfacial nanotwins formation remain a challenging… show more Feihong Chu, Xianlin Qu & Yongzhe Zhang Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access All-ferroelectric implementation of reservoir computing While reservoir computing can process temporal information efficiently, its hardware implementation remains a… show more Zhiwei Chen, Wenjie Li & Jun-Ming Liu Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Electric double layer-mediated polarization field for optimizing photogenerated carrier dynamics and thermodynamics Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution efficiency is limited due to unfavorable carrier dynamics and thermodynamic… show more Chengxin Zhou, Jian Gao & Chuan Xia Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Phenanthroline-carbolong interface suppress chemical interactions with active layer enabling long-time stable organic solar cells Interfacial engineering is an effective strategy to improve efficiency of organic solar cells. Here, the authors… show more Xue Lai,, Shiyan Chen, & Feng He Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Single-emitter quantum key distribution over 175 km of fibre with optimised finite key rates Future single-photon-based quantum networks will require both reliable telecom single-photon sources and… show more Christopher L. Morrison, Roberto G. Pousa & Alessandro Fedrizzi Article 16 June 2023 | Open Access Nanovesicles loaded with a TGF-β receptor 1 inhibitor overcome immune resistance to potentiate cancer immunotherapy Targeting the TGF-β signaling pathway has been exploited to relieve immunosuppression in the tumor… show more Mengxue Zhou, Jiaxin Wang & Haijun Yu Article 15 June 2023 | Open Access Gold-catalyzed four-component multifunctionalization of alkynes The development of selective multifunctionalization of alkynes is essential for organic synthesis with alkyne… show more Shangwen Fang, Jie Han & Jin Xie Article 15 June 2023 | Open Access Reaction performance prediction with an extrapolative and interpretable graph model based on chemical knowledge Predictive modelling remains a key challenge for designing synthetic transformations. Here, the authors develop a… show more Shu-Wen Li, Li-Cheng Xu & Xin Hong Article 15 June 2023 | Open Access Resolving nanostructure and chemistry of solid-electrolyte interphase on lithium anodes by depth-sensitive plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy The solid-electrolyte interphase is crucial for most batteries, but its characterization is challenging. Here,… show more Yu Gu, En-Ming You & Bing-Wei Mao Article 15 June 2023 | Open Access Efficient interatomic descriptors for accurate machine learning force fields of extended molecules Accurate description of non-local interactions represents a challenge for machine learning force fields. Here,… show more Adil Kabylda, Valentin Vassilev-Galindo & Alexandre Tkatchenko Article 15 June 2023 | Open Access Atomic motifs govern the decoration of grain boundaries by interstitial solutes Interplay between structure and composition of grain boundaries remains elusive, particularly at the atomic… show more Xuyang Zhou, Ali Ahmadian & Dierk Raabe Article 15 June 2023 | Open Access N-Acryloylindole-alkyne (NAIA) enables imaging and profiling new ligandable cysteines and oxidized thiols by chemoproteomics Cysteine is a popular target of covalent drugs and can undergo redox modifications. Here, the authors developed… show more Tin-Yan Koo, Hinyuk Lai & Clive Yik-Sham Chung Article 15 June 2023 | Open Access Dynamic active-site induced by host-guest interactions boost the Fenton-like reaction for organic wastewater treatment Uncovering the dynamic evolution of active sites in the working conditions is crucial to realizing increased… show more Dongpeng Zhang, Yanxiao Li & Sihui Zhan Article 15 June 2023 | Open Access Adoptive T cell transfer and host antigen-presenting cell recruitment with cryogel scaffolds promotes long-term protection against solid tumors Adoptive T cell therapy has shown remarkable promise for the treatment of haematological malignancies. Here, the… show more Kwasi Adu-Berchie, Joshua M. Brockman & David J. Mooney Article 14 June 2023 | Open Access Hierarchical entanglement shells of multichannel Kondo clouds Understanding the structure of the Kondo cloud formed by conduction electrons screening the impurity spin is a… show more Jeongmin Shim, Donghoon Kim & H.-S. Sim Article 14 June 2023 | Open Access Quantum bath suppression in a superconducting circuit by immersion cooling Removing excess energy (cooling) and reducing noise in superconducting quantum circuits is central to improved… show more M. Lucas, A. V. Danilov & S. E. de Graaf Article 14 June 2023 | Open Access Arylcarboxylation of unactivated alkenes with CO2 via visible-light photoredox catalysis Despite the importance of polycyclic carboxylic acids and derivatives in various fields, general methods for the… show more Wei Zhang, Zhen Chen & Da-Gang Yu Article 14 June 2023 | Open Access All-organic polymeric materials with high refractive index and excellent transparency The easy preparation of high efractive index transparent polymers is highly desirable owing to their interesting… show more Jie Zhang, Tianwen Bai & Ben Zhong Tang