Article 19 August 2023 | Open Access Enantioselective organocatalytic synthesis of axially chiral aldehyde-containing styrenes via SNAr reaction-guided dynamic kinetic resolution The precise and efficient construction of axially chiral scaffolds, particularly toward the aryl-alkene… show more Fengyuan Guo, Siqiang Fang & Tianli Wang Article 19 August 2023 | Open Access Minimizing non-radiative decay in molecular aggregates through control of excitonic coupling Exciton delocalization in molecular aggregates is suggested to counteract the Energy Gap Law. Here, authors… show more Yuanheng Wang, Jiajun Ren & Zhigang Shuai Article 19 August 2023 | Open Access Impact damage reduction of woven composites subject to pulse current In this work, the authors demonstrate that pulse current can effectively be used to reduce delamination damage… show more Yan Li, Fusheng Wang & Laohu Long Article 19 August 2023 | Open Access Proton-controlled molecular ionic ferroelectrics Molecular ferroelectrics contain stimuli-responsive structure and ionic building blocks, promising for ionically… show more Yulong Huang, Jennifer L. Gottfried & Shenqiang Ren Article 19 August 2023 | Open Access Shadow estimation of gate-set properties from random sequences In order to be practical, schemes for characterizing quantum operations should require the simplest possible gate… show more J. Helsen, M. Ioannou & I. Roth Article 19 August 2023 | Open Access Regio- and enantioselective CuH-catalyzed 1,2- and 1,4-hydrosilylation of 1,3-enynes Functionalization of 1,3-enyne represent a powerful method to construct allenyl- and propargylderivatives, but… show more Zi-Lu Wang, Qi Li & Yun-He Xu Article 19 August 2023 | Open Access DECIMER.ai: an open platform for automated optical chemical structure identification, segmentation and recognition in scientific publications Chemical structures are typically published as nonmachine-readable images in scientific literature. Here, the… show more Kohulan Rajan, Henning Otto Brinkhaus & Christoph Steinbeck Article 19 August 2023 | Open Access Observation of ultrafast interfacial Meitner-Auger energy transfer in a Van der Waals heterostructure Here, the authors investigate the interfacial charge/energy transfer dynamics in a WSe2/graphene heterostructure.… show more Shuo Dong, Samuel Beaulieu & Ralph Ernstorfer Article 19 August 2023 | Open Access Metabolic glycan labeling immobilizes dendritic cell membrane and enhances antitumor efficacy of dendritic cell vaccine Dendritic cell (DC) vaccines were among the first FDA-approved cancer immunotherapies but have been limited by… show more Joonsu Han, Rimsha Bhatta & Hua Wang Article 19 August 2023 | Open Access Exciton Superposition across Moiré States in a Semiconducting Moiré Superlattice The moiré lattice of trilayer WSe2 and monolayer WS2 host interlayer excitons localized at different moiré sites.… show more Zhen Lian, Dongxue Chen & Su-Fei Shi Article 19 August 2023 | Open Access Handheld snapshot multi-spectral camera at tens-of-megapixel resolution Current multispectral video cameras can hardly scale up beyond megapixel resolution and do not apply to… show more Weihang Zhang, Jinli Suo & Qionghai Dai Article 18 August 2023 | Open Access Doubly N-confused and ring-contracted [24]hexaphyrin Pd-complexes as stable antiaromatic N-confused expanded porphyrins In the chemistry of porphyrinoids, expanded porphyrins and N-confused porphyrins (NCP) are two important… show more Fuying Luo, Le Liu & Jianxin Song Article 18 August 2023 | Open Access Dual-comb optomechanical spectroscopy Spectroscopic gas sensing with high sensitivity and selectivity finds an increasing number of applications. Here,… show more Xinyi Ren, Jin Pan & Heping Zeng Article 18 August 2023 | Open Access Toughening self-healing elastomer crosslinked by metal–ligand coordination through mixed counter anion dynamics The trade-off relationship between mechanical robustness and viscoelasticity limits the strategies to produce… show more Hyunchang Park, Taewon Kang & Jiheong Kang Article 18 August 2023 | Open Access Heavy quasiparticles and cascades without symmetry breaking in twisted bilayer graphene Twisted bilayer graphene hosts a sequence of electronic resets evidenced experimentally by characteristic… show more Anushree Datta, M. J. Calderón & E. Bascones Article 18 August 2023 | Open Access Programmable supramolecular chirality in non-equilibrium systems affording a multistate chiroptical switch The dynamic regulation of supramolecular chirality in non-equilibrium systems can provide valuable insights into… show more Jingjing Li, Yihan Cui & Chun-Sen Liu Article 18 August 2023 | Open Access Sub-second ultrafast yet programmable wet-chemical synthesis Here the authors present a wet-interfacial Joule heating approach for synthesizing nanomaterials in a sub-second,… show more Lin Zhang, Li Peng & Chao Gao Article 18 August 2023 | Open Access Engineered NIR-II fluorophores with ultralong-distance molecular packing for high-contrast deep lesion identification To achieve high-contrast in fluorescence imaging of deep tissues is challenging. Here, the authors develop NIR-II… show more Zhe Feng, Yuanyuan Li & Jun Qian Article 18 August 2023 | Open Access Momentum-independent magnetic excitation continuum in the honeycomb iridate H3LiIr2O6 Kitaev quantum spin liquids are an exciting potential platform for hosting rich condensed matter physics. Here,… show more A. de la Torre, B. Zager & K. W. Plumb Article 18 August 2023 | Open Access Droplet attraction and coalescence mechanism on textured oil-impregnated surfaces Purposely patterned surfaces impregnated with oil harbor a range of unusual wetting phenomena. Experiments now… show more Haobo Xu, Yimin Zhou & Solomon Adera Article 18 August 2023 | Open Access Attaching protein-adsorbing silica particles to the surface of cotton substrates for bioaerosol capture including SARS-CoV-2 There has been a significant increase in the demand for face masks, but achieving a balance of breathability and… show more Kieran Collings, Cedric Boisdon & Simon Maher Article 18 August 2023 | Open Access Ce-mediated molecular tailoring on gigantic polyoxometalate {Mo132} into half-closed {Ce11Mo96} for high proton conduction Polyoxometalates (POMs) are molecular clusters with diverse structures. Here authors present the synthesis of… show more Xue-Xin Li, Cai-Hong Li & Zhong-Min Su Article 18 August 2023 | Open Access Early-adulthood spike in protein translation drives aging via juvenile hormone/germline signaling The transient elevation in protein translation during early-adulthood in Drosophila imposes long-lasting negative… show more Harper S. Kim, Danitra J. Parker & Andrew M. Pickering Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Sustainable production of dopamine hydrochloride from softwood lignin Efficient production of dopamine direct from lignin is a highly desirable target but extremely challenging. Here,… show more Lin Dong, Yanqin Wang & Zupeng Chen Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access An aqueous electrolyte densified by perovskite SrTiO3 enabling high-voltage zinc-ion batteries Conventional electrolytes of aqueous zinc-ion batteries suffer from serious side reactions. Here, the authors… show more Rongyu Deng, Zhenjiang He & Feixiang Wu Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Skin-like cryogel electronics from suppressed-freezing tuned polymer amorphization Green cryogels are highly desirable for soft devices but often formed as crystalline-crosslinked networks due to… show more Xiansheng Zhang, Hongwei Yan & Yanzhi Xia Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Machine learning the microscopic form of nematic order in twisted double-bilayer graphene Machine learning methods in condensed matter physics are an emerging tool for providing powerful analytical… show more João Augusto Sobral, Stefan Obernauer & Mathias S. Scheurer Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Streamlining the synthesis of amides using Nickel-based nanocatalysts The synthesis of amides is a key technology for the preparation of fine and bulk chemicals in industry. Here, the… show more Jie Gao, Rui Ma & Matthias Beller Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Constructing multiple active sites in iron oxide catalysts for improving carbonylation reactions Surface engineering of Fe sites was used to improve the carbonylation reaction of aryl halides and… show more Shujuan Liu, Teng Li & Xinjiang Cui Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Thin, soft, wearable system for continuous wireless monitoring of artery blood pressure Continuous monitoring of arterial blood pressure is limited by bulky connecting systems and poor interfacial… show more Jian Li, Huiling Jia & Xinge Yu Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Multiple antiferromagnetic phases and magnetic anisotropy in exfoliated CrBr3 multilayers Van der Waals materials often exhibit different metastable structures, with the constituent layers shifted by… show more Fengrui Yao, Volodymyr Multian & Alberto F. Morpurgo Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access In-plane reorientation induced single laser pulse magnetization reversal All-optical switching of magnetization refers to the process whereby an optical pulse is used to reverse the… show more Y. Peng, D. Salomoni & M. Hehn Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Geospatial mapping of distribution grid with machine learning and publicly-accessible multi-modal data Granular geospatial information of distribution grids is needed for various power system applications. Here the… show more Zhecheng Wang, Arun Majumdar & Ram Rajagopal Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Charge-state lifetimes of single molecules on few monolayers of NaCl Resonant charge transport to and from molecules and their corresponding charge-state transitions are critical to… show more Katharina Kaiser, Leonard-Alexander Lieske & Leo Gross Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access A deep learning method for replicate-based analysis of chromosome conformation contacts using Siamese neural networks Siamese neural networks are a powerful deep learning approach for image analysis. Here, the authors adapt this… show more Ediem Al-jibury, James W. D. King & Daniel Rueckert Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Rapid self-heating synthesis of Fe-based nanomaterial catalyst for advanced oxidation There is an urgent need to develop efficient Fe-based catalysts for the organic pollutant degradation. Here, the… show more Fengbo Yu, Chao Jia & Xiangdong Zhu Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Multicolor lifetime imaging and its application to HIV-1 uptake Multicolor imaging employing genetically-encodable fluorescent proteins permits spatiotemporal live cell imaging… show more Tobias Starling, Irene Carlon-Andres & Sergi Padilla-Parra Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Molecular rearrangement of bicyclic peroxy radicals is a key route to aerosol from aromatics The oxidation of aromatics contributes significantly to the formation of atmospheric aerosol. Using toluene as an… show more Siddharth Iyer, Avinash Kumar & Matti Rissanen Article 17 August 2023 | Open Access Extensive breaking of genetic code degeneracy with non-canonical amino acids Genetic code expansion is limited by the degeneracy of the 61 sense codons which encode for only 20 amino acids.… show more Clinton A. L. McFeely, Bipasana Shakya & Matthew C. T. Hartman Perspective 16 August 2023 | Open Access Toward a formal theory for computing machines made out of whatever physics offers Learning from human brains to build powerful computers is attractive, yet extremely challenging due to the lack… show more Herbert Jaeger, Beatriz Noheda & Wilfred G. van der Wiel Comment 16 August 2023 | Open Access The brain’s unique take on algorithms The current gap between computing algorithms and neuromorphic hardware to emulate brains is an outstanding… show more James B. Aimone & Ojas Parekh Article 16 August 2023 | Open Access Crackling noise microscopy The authors present crackling noise microscopy, a method for measurement of the crackling of individual nanoscale… show more Cam-Phu Thi Nguyen, Peggy Schoenherr & Jan Seidel Article 16 August 2023 | Open Access Ionic liquid gating induced self-intercalation of transition metal chalcogenides Transition metal monochalcogenides have been predicted to host interesting superconducting and topological… show more Fei Wang, Yang Zhang & Shuyun Zhou Article 16 August 2023 | Open Access Towards layer-selective quantum spin hall channels in weak topological insulator Bi4Br2I2 Weak topological insulators offer promising topological state tunability for devices. Here, the authors use ARPES… show more Jingyuan Zhong, Ming Yang & Yi Du Article 16 August 2023 | Open Access Ultra-wideband optical coherence elastography from acoustic to ultrasonic frequencies Understanding the mechanical properties of materials is critical in many fields, from soft hydrogels to… show more Xu Feng, Guo-Yang Li & Seok-Hyun Yun Article 16 August 2023 | Open Access Enabling low-drift flexible perovskite photodetectors by electrical modulation for wearable health monitoring and weak light imaging Defects and ion migration in perovskites hinder their potential as active material for flexible photodetectors.… show more Yingjie Tang, Peng Jin & Bowen Zhu Article 16 August 2023 | Open Access Zwitterionic microgel preservation platform for circulating tumor cells in whole blood specimen Blood specimen stabilization for the preservation of circulating tumor cells remains challenging. Here, the… show more Yiming Ma, Jun Zhang & Lei Zhang Article 16 August 2023 | Open Access Giant room-temperature nonlinearities in a monolayer Janus topological semiconductor Electronic band topology may be leveraged to enhance nonlinear optical properties in monolayer semiconductors.… show more Jiaojian Shi, Haowei Xu & Aaron M. Lindenberg Article 16 August 2023 | Open Access Operando neutron diffraction reveals mechanisms for controlled strain evolution in 3D printing Residual stress affects most manufactured goods and is prevalent in casting, welding, and additive manufacturing.… show more A. Plotkowski, K. Saleeby & S. S. Babu Article 16 August 2023 | Open Access H2 formation via non-Born-Oppenheimer hydrogen migration in photoionized ethane Uncovering the mechanism behind neutral H2 formation from ionised hydrocarbon molecules still poses severe… show more Yizhang Yang, Hao Ren & Dajun Ding Browse narrower subjects Astronomy and planetary science Chemistry Energy science and technology Engineering Materials science Mathematics and computing Nanoscience and technology Optics and photonics Physics Browse Physical sciences across other nature.com journals