Article 26 August 2023 | Open Access Resonating holes vs molecular spin-orbit coupled states in group-5 lacunar spinels Dressing is a concept used to describe moderately interacting electrons. Here authors present the notion of… show more Thorben Petersen, Pritam Bhattacharyya & Liviu Hozoi Article 26 August 2023 | Open Access A cage-on-MOF strategy to coordinatively functionalize mesoporous MOFs for manipulating selectivity in adsorption and catalysis Functionalising porous materials is a route to enhancing properties of hybrid materials. Here authors present a… show more Yu Liang, Xiaoxin Yang & Yu Fang Article 26 August 2023 | Open Access Design of stretchable and self-powered sensing device for portable and remote trace biomarkers detection Biomarker detection, including for H2S, is desirable but challenging to achieve. Here, the authors report the… show more Wenxi Huang, Qiongling Ding & Jin Wu Article 26 August 2023 | Open Access Universal patterns in egocentric communication networks Personal communication networks through mobile phones and online platforms can be characterized by patterns of… show more Gerardo Iñiguez, Sara Heydari & Jari Saramäki Article 26 August 2023 | Open Access Discovery and construction of surface kagome electronic states induced by p-d electronic hybridization in Co3Sn2S2 Kagome materials host 2D planes which give rise to kagome physics, but these are typically embedded in the bulk.… show more Li Huang, Xianghua Kong & Hong-Jun Gao Article 26 August 2023 | Open Access Room temperature valley polarization via spin selective charge transfer Valleytronics is a portmanteau of ‘valley’ and ‘electronics’ and refers to the use of the valley degree of… show more Shreetu Shrestha, Mingxing Li & Mircea Cotlet Article 26 August 2023 | Open Access Two-photon nanoprobes based on bioorganic nanoarchitectonics with a photo-oxidation enhanced emission mechanism Two-photon absorption (TPA) affords unparalleled spatiotemporal resolution for bioimaging, but the… show more Shukun Li, Rui Chang & Xuehai Yan Article 26 August 2023 | Open Access Nanocompartment-confined polymerization in living systems Polymerizations in living systems can effectively regulate cell functions and behaviors, but their uses have been… show more Yun Chen, Mengxuan Zuo & Yanli Zhao Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Catalytic asymmetric dearomatization of phenols via divergent intermolecular (3 + 2) and alkylation reactions The catalytic asymmetric dearomatization (CADA) reaction is a powerful protocol for the assembly of… show more Xiang Gao, Tian-Jiao Han & Guang-Jian Mei Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Persistent dynamic magnetic state in artificial honeycomb spin ice Artificial spin ices are composed of a honeycomb lattice of nanoscale magnets. Depending on the orientation of… show more J. Guo, P. Ghosh & D. K. Singh Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Impact of inherent energy barrier on spin-orbit torques in magnetic-metal/semimetal heterojunctions Many proposed spintronic devices, where spin, rather than charge is used for information processing, rely on the… show more Tenghua Gao, Alireza Qaiumzadeh & Kazuya Ando Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Electron counting detectors in scanning transmission electron microscopy via hardware signal processing Electron detectors used in electron microscope are often unable to provide quantified information without… show more Jonathan J. P. Peters, Tiarnan Mullarkey & Lewys Jones Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access In-memory mechanical computing Here, Mei and Chen propose an in-memory mechanical computing architecture with simplified and reduced data… show more Tie Mei & Chang Qing Chen Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Design principles for NASICON super-ionic conductors Na Super Ionic Conductor (NASICON) materials are an important class of solid-state electrolytes. Here, authors… show more Jingyang Wang, Tanjin He & Gerbrand Ceder Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Infrared spectroscopic laser scanning confocal microscopy for whole-slide chemical imaging Chemical imaging, including infrared spectroscopic microscopy with molecular sensitivity, is useful for… show more Kevin Yeh, Ishaan Sharma & Rohit Bhargava Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Identifying and preventing degradation in flavin mononucleotide-based redox flow batteries via NMR and EPR spectroscopy Aqueous organic redox-flow batteries are known to suffer capacity loss via degradation of the redox-active… show more Dominic Hey, Rajesh B. Jethwa & Clare P. Grey Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Topology stabilized fluctuations in a magnetic nodal semimetal Recently, rich condensed matter physics has emerged from the interplay between band topology and magnetic order.… show more Nathan C. Drucker, Thanh Nguyen & Mingda Li Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Visualizing single-molecule conformational transition and binding dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are highly dynamic and play pivotal roles in cellular processes but can… show more Wenzhe Liu, Limin Chen & Xuefeng Guo Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Prominent Josephson tunneling between twisted single copper oxide planes of Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+y The authors investigate junctions made of two flakes of the cuprate superconductor Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+y (Bi2201)… show more Heng Wang, Yuying Zhu & Qi-Kun Xue Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Material symmetry recognition and property prediction accomplished by crystal capsule representation Learning global crystal symmetry and interpreting equivariance are crucial for developing ML model to predict… show more Chao Liang, Yilimiranmu Rouzhahong & Huashan Li Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Projecting RNA measurements onto single cell atlases to extract cell type-specific expression profiles using scProjection Many expression deconvolution approaches have been developed to estimate % RNA contributions of diverse cell… show more Nelson Johansen, Hongru Hu & Gerald Quon Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access Propensity of selecting mutant parasites for the antimalarial drug cabamiquine Authors utilize a number of models (mathematical, in vitro and in vivo infection) to analyse pre-clinical and… show more Eva Stadler, Mohamed Maiga & Thomas Spangenberg Article 25 August 2023 | Open Access A photo-triggered self-accelerated nanoplatform for multifunctional image-guided combination cancer immunotherapy Aggregation-induced emission luminogens (AIEgens) have shown high-performance as photosensitizers. Here the… show more Xiaoying Kang, Yuan Zhang & Ben Zhong Tang Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access A universal metasurface antenna to manipulate all fundamental characteristics of electromagnetic waves The authors show a universal metasurface antenna capable of simultaneously and independently controlling all five… show more Geng-Bo Wu, Jun Yan Dai & Chi Hou Chan Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access Divergent access to 5,6,7-perifused cycles The lack of efficient and diverse synthesis strategy has hindered the study of perifused cycles. Here, the… show more Jingpeng Han, Yongjian Yang & Baosheng Li Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access Room temperature energy-efficient spin-orbit torque switching in two-dimensional van der Waals Fe3GeTe2 induced by topological insulators Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) exhibits remarkable device endurance, while also offering potential… show more Haiyu Wang, Hao Wu & Weisheng Zhao Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access Metal-mediated DNA strand displacement and molecular device operations based on base-pair switching of 5-hydroxyuracil nucleobases The development of dynamic DNA nanodevices, whose configuration and function are regulated by specific chemical… show more Yusuke Takezawa, Keita Mori & Mitsuhiko Shionoya Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access Turning sulfonyl and sulfonimidoyl fluoride electrophiles into sulfur(VI) radicals for alkene ligation Sulfonyl and sulfonimidoyl fluorides (SFs) are versatile substrates in organic synthesis but conversion to S(VI)… show more Xing Wu, Wenbo Zhang & Bing Gao Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access Interplay of structural chirality, electron spin and topological orbital in chiral molecular spin valves Chirality induced spin selectivity is a process whereby a chiral molecule induces a spin-polarization to a… show more Yuwaraj Adhikari, Tianhan Liu & Peng Xiong Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access Synthesis of robust underwater glues from common proteins via unfolding-aggregating strategy Underwater adhesive proteins greatly inspired the development of underwater glue but except for specific proteins… show more Yongchun Liu, Ke Li & Peng Yang Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access Magnetization reversal through an antiferromagnetic state Magnetization reversal is a well-studied non-equilibrium process by which a ferromagnet or ferrimagnet reverses… show more Somnath Ghara, Evgenii Barts & Joachim Deisenhofer Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access Multiscale dynamics of charging and plating in graphite electrodes coupling operando microscopy and phase-field modelling Improved understanding of the spatial dynamics in graphite electrodes is needed to improve fast-charging… show more Xuekun Lu, Marco Lagnoni & Paul R. Shearing Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access A synthetic cell-free 36-enzyme reaction system for vitamin B12 production Adenosylcobalamin (AdoCbl) is an essential vitamin whose production is limited to bacterial fermentation. Here,… show more Qian Kang, Huan Fang & Dawei Zhang Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access Thermodynamic principle to enhance enzymatic activity using the substrate affinity Currently, there is no well-defined strategy to increase the activity of enzymes. Here, the authors provide… show more Hideshi Ooka, Yoko Chiba & Ryuhei Nakamura Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access Switch of cell migration modes orchestrated by changes of three-dimensional lamellipodium structure and intracellular diffusion How do cells regulate their migration speed and direction? Here, authors discover that keratocyte cells can… show more Chao Jiang, Hong-Yu Luo & Hui Li Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access Biosynthesized gold nanoparticles that activate Toll-like receptors and elicit localized light-converting hyperthermia for pleiotropic tumor immunoregulation Bacteria have been exploited as a potential bio-factory for the synthesis of nanoparticles. Here the authors… show more Hao Qin, Yang Chen & Ruifang Zhao Article 24 August 2023 | Open Access Zero-shot visual reasoning through probabilistic analogical mapping Inspired by human analogical reasoning in cognitive science, the authors propose an approach combining deep… show more Taylor Webb, Shuhao Fu & Hongjing Lu Article 23 August 2023 | Open Access Mimicking reductive dehalogenases for efficient electrocatalytic water dechlorination Designing electrocatalysts for water treatment with high activity/selectivity as elaborately as natural enzymes… show more Yuan Min, Shu-Chuan Mei & Yujie Xiong Article 23 August 2023 | Open Access Self-triggered thermoelectric nanoheterojunction for cancer catalytic and immunotherapy The exogenous excitation requirement and electron-hole pair recombination are the key factors limiting the… show more Xue Yuan, Yong Kang & Dong Ming Article 23 August 2023 | Open Access Stable trapping of multiple proteins at physiological conditions using nanoscale chambers with macromolecular gates The possibility to trap biomolecules is important for analysing them by optical methods. Here we show how… show more Justas Svirelis, Zeynep Adali & Andreas Dahlin Article 23 August 2023 | Open Access Click-electrochemistry for the rapid labeling of virus, bacteria and cell surfaces Methods for direct covalent ligation of microorganism surfaces are scarce. Here, the authors developed a rapid… show more Sébastien Depienne, Mohammed Bouzelha & Sébastien G. Gouin Article 23 August 2023 | Open Access Atomic-level structure determination of amorphous molecular solids by NMR The atomic-level ensemble structure of an amorphous form of a drug is determined by combining NMR experiments… show more Manuel Cordova, Pinelopi Moutzouri & Lyndon Emsley Article 23 August 2023 | Open Access Hypothermal opto-thermophoretic tweezers Traditional optical tweezers require high laser powers risking photothermal damage of the trapped objects. Here,… show more Pavana Siddhartha Kollipara, Xiuying Li & Yuebing Zheng Article 23 August 2023 | Open Access Nano-metal diborides-supported anode catalyst with strongly coupled TaOx/IrO2 catalytic layer for low-iridium-loading proton exchange membrane electrolyzer The extreme scarcity of Ir largely limits the wide application of proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer… show more Yuannan Wang, Mingcheng Zhang & Xiaoxin Zou Article 23 August 2023 | Open Access Data-mining unveils structure–property–activity correlation of viral infectivity enhancing self-assembling peptides Certain peptides can boost viral infectivity. However, the requirements for their activity remain unclear. Here,… show more Kübra Kaygisiz, Lena Rauch-Wirth & Tanja Weil Article 23 August 2023 | Open Access Janus nanoparticles targeting extracellular polymeric substance achieve flexible elimination of drug-resistant biofilms It is imperative but challenging to develop nanomaterials that can combat drug-resistant bacteria and biofilm… show more Zhiwen Liu, Kangli Guo & Fu-Jian Xu Article 23 August 2023 | Open Access Cryopreservation and revival of Hawaiian stony corals using isochoric vitrification Cryopreservation is one approach to conserving the genetic diversity of threatened coral reefs but has thus far… show more Matthew J. Powell-Palm, E. Michael Henley & Mary Hagedorn Article 22 August 2023 | Open Access Topological soliton molecule in quasi 1D charge density wave Soliton molecules have been observed only in the temporal dimension for classical wave optical systems. Here, the… show more Taehwan Im, Sun Kyu Song & Han Woong Yeom Article 22 August 2023 | Open Access Transparent dynamic infrared emissivity regulators In this work, authors report a transparent dynamic infrared emissivity modulation mechanism based on reversible… show more Yan Jia, Dongqing Liu & Tianwen Liu Article 22 August 2023 | Open Access Extending the coherence of spin defects in hBN enables advanced qubit control and quantum sensing Negatively-charged boron vacancy centers in hBN have short coherence times, hindering their potential as quantum… show more Roberto Rizzato, Martin Schalk & Dominik B. Bucher 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