Article 23 September 2023 | Open Access Grinding-induced supramolecular charge-transfer assemblies with switchable vapochromism toward haloalkane isomers The use of macrocycles to develop charge-transfer complexes in the solid state was recently demonstrated. Here,… show more Jia-Rui Wu, Gengxin Wu & Ying-Wei Yang Article 23 September 2023 | Open Access Realistic fault detection of li-ion battery via dynamical deep learning Accurate evaluation of Li-ion battery safety conditions can reduce unexpected cell failures. Here, authors… show more Jingzhao Zhang, Yanan Wang & Minggao Ouyang Article 23 September 2023 | Open Access Tensorial stress-plastic strain fields in α - ω Zr mixture, transformation kinetics, and friction in diamond-anvil cell Fields of stress and plastic strain tensors in a sample under high pressures in diamond-anvil cells are… show more Valery I. Levitas, Achyut Dhar & K. K. Pandey Article 23 September 2023 | Open Access Synthesis of CuCo2S4@Expanded Graphite with crystal/amorphous heterointerface and defects for electromagnetic wave absorption Heterointerface and defect promote the development of electromagnetic wave absorbers. Here, the authors show the… show more Zhimeng Tang, Lei Xu & Jinhui Peng Article 23 September 2023 | Open Access Monolithic 3D integration of 2D transistors and vertical RRAMs in 1T–4R structure for high-density memory Designing a monolithic 3D structure with interleaved logic and high-density memory layers has been difficult to… show more Maosong Xie, Yueyang Jia & Rui Yang Article 23 September 2023 | Open Access Synergistic effects of mixing and strain in high entropy spinel oxides for oxygen evolution reaction Efficient and durable electrocatalysts are essential for boosting oxygen evolution reaction toward hydrogen… show more Jihyun Baek, Md Delowar Hossain & Xiaolin Zheng Article 23 September 2023 | Open Access Ultra-durable superhydrophobic cellular coatings The design and scalable fabrication of durable superhydrophobic coatings that prevent accretion of matter is… show more Wancheng Gu, Wanbo Li & Youfa Zhang Article 23 September 2023 | Open Access Efficient agricultural drip irrigation inspired by fig leaf morphology Drip irrigation mitigates water shortage yet suffers high flow resistance and blockage. Here, the authors design… show more Shijie Liu, Chengqi Zhang & Zhichao Dong Article 22 September 2023 | Open Access Manipulation of nonlinear optical responses in layered ferroelectric niobium oxide dihalides This paper reports the intralayer ferroelectric-to-antiferroelectric and ferroelectric-toparaelectric phase… show more Liangting Ye, Wenju Zhou & Bing Huang Article 22 September 2023 | Open Access Strong structuring arising from weak cooperative O-H···π and C-H···O hydrogen bonding in benzene-methanol solution Understanding liquid behavior is a challenge due to their disorder nature and rapid molecular rearrangements.… show more Camilla Di Mino, Andrew G. Seel & Neal T. Skipper Article 22 September 2023 | Open Access Dual enzyme-powered chemotactic cross β amyloid based functional nanomotors Nanomotor chassis constructed from biological precursors and powered by biocatalytic transformations can offer… show more Chandranath Ghosh, Souvik Ghosh & Dibyendu Das Article 22 September 2023 | Open Access Promoting ordering degree of intermetallic fuel cell catalysts by low-melting-point metal doping The development of highly ordered intermetallic catalyst for oxygen reduction reactions suffers from large… show more Ru-Yang Shao, Xiao-Chu Xu & Hai-Wei Liang Article 22 September 2023 | Open Access 3D covalent organic framework membrane with fast and selective ion transport 3D ionic covalent organic frameworks (iCOF) are used in the fabrication of membranes breaking the trade-off… show more Tianhao Zhu, Yan Kong & Zhongyi Jiang Article 22 September 2023 | Open Access High-resolution single-photon imaging with physics-informed deep learning High-resolution single-photon imaging is challenging due to complex hardware and noise disturbances. Here, the… show more Liheng Bian, Haoze Song & Jun Zhang Article 22 September 2023 | Open Access Efficient combinatorial optimization by quantum-inspired parallel annealing in analogue memristor crossbar Combinatorial optimization problems have various important applications but are notoriously difficult to solve.… show more Mingrui Jiang, Keyi Shan & Can Li Article 22 September 2023 | Open Access Intrinsic 1𝑇′ phase induced in atomically thin 2H-MoTe2 by a single terahertz pulse A single field-enhanced terahertz pulse was used to create 1𝑇′ -MoTe2 out of few-layer H-MoTe2… show more Jiaojian Shi, Ya-Qing Bie & Keith A. Nelson Article 22 September 2023 | Open Access A chemical catalyst enabling histone acylation with endogenous acyl-CoA Chemical catalysts that can promote physiologically important post-translational modifications acting as enzyme… show more Misuzu Habazaki, Shinsuke Mizumoto & Motomu Kanai Article 22 September 2023 | Open Access Determining subunit-subunit interaction from statistics of cryo-EM images: observation of nearest-neighbor coupling in a circadian clock protein complex Deciphering interactions between subunits in protein complexes is an important problem. By combining cryo-EM… show more Xu Han, Dongliang Zhang & Qi Ouyang Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access Benchmarking universal quantum gates via channel spectrum Performing quantum computing in the NISQ era requires reliable information on the gate noise characteristics and… show more Yanwu Gu, Wei-Feng Zhuang & Dong E. Liu Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access Accelerated discovery of multi-elemental reverse water-gas shift catalysts using extrapolative machine learning approach Despite the promise that machine learning (ML) can accelerate catalyst development, truly novel catalysts are… show more Gang Wang, Shinya Mine & Takashi Toyao Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access Pick and place process for uniform shrinking of 3D printed micro- and nano-architected materials Three-dimensional structures with micro-/nanoscale features can be produced by two-photon polymerization… show more Tomohiro Mori, Hao Wang & Joel K. W. Yang Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access Kapitza-resistance-like exciton dynamics in atomically flat MoSe2-WSe2 lateral heterojunction Here, the authors use tip-enhanced photoluminescence spectroscopy to show a discontinuity of the exciton density… show more Hassan Lamsaadi, Dorian Beret & Jean-Marie Poumirol Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access Reassessing chain tilt in the lamellar crystals of polyethylene The mechanical and thermal properties of semicrystalline polymers are governed by the hierarchical structure… show more Shusuke Kanomi, Hironori Marubayashi & Hiroshi Jinnai Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access Proof of crystal-field-perturbation-enhanced luminescence of lanthanide-doped nanocrystals through interstitial H+ doping Lanthanide-doped inorganic nanocrystals are promising for optical imaging and biomedical applications. Here… show more Guowei Li, Shihui Jiang & Maochun Hong Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access Creating speech zones with self-distributing acoustic swarms Want to mute or focus on speech from a specific region in a crowded room? Here, the authors built an acoustic… show more Malek Itani, Tuochao Chen & Shyamnath Gollakota Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access Strained few-layer MoS2 with atomic copper and selectively exposed in-plane sulfur vacancies for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol The precisely controllable synthesis of strained MoS2 with both few-layer and fullerene-like structure for… show more Shenghui Zhou, Wenrui Ma & Hua Chun Zeng Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access Anomalous spin current anisotropy in a noncollinear antiferromagnet Symmetry is an essential ingredient that governs numerous physical phenomena, including spin transport. Following… show more Cuimei Cao, Shiwei Chen & Qingfeng Zhan Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access Engineering the temporal dynamics of all-optical switching with fast and slow materials Here the authors demonstrate the active control of an all-optical switch harnessing the interaction of light with… show more Soham Saha, Benjamin T. Diroll & Alexandra Boltasseva Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access Ultrasound trapping and navigation of microrobots in the mouse brain vasculature The intricate and delicate anatomy of the brain poses challenges to achieving efficient and precise medical… show more Alexia Del Campo Fonseca, Chaim Glück & Daniel Ahmed Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access Thermodynamic forces from protein and water govern condensate formation of an intrinsically disordered protein domain In this work, the authors report atomistic molecular dynamics simulations showing that solvation entropy and… show more Saumyak Mukherjee & Lars V. Schäfer Article 21 September 2023 | Open Access pH-gated nanoparticles selectively regulate lysosomal function of tumour-associated macrophages for cancer immunotherapy A high abundance of tumour associated macrophages with immunosuppressive properties is associated with… show more Mingmei Tang, Binlong Chen & Yiguang Wang Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access Efficiently accelerated free electrons by metallic laser accelerator Accelerated electron beams are potentially useful for imaging and different type of light sources. Here the… show more Dingguo Zheng, Siyuan Huang & Jianqi Li Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access Observation of suppressed viscosity in the normal state of 3He due to superfluid fluctuations Early theoretical work predicted that fluctuations above the superfluid transition in liquid 3He should be… show more Rakin N. Baten, Yefan Tian & Jeevak M. Parpia Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access Microrollers flow uphill as granular media Kinetic energy put into a granular medium as a collective is typically dissipated as friction. The situation is… show more Samuel R. Wilson-Whitford, Jinghui Gao & James F. Gilchrist Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access Anionic ring-opening polymerization of functional epoxide monomers in the solid state Despite recent advancements in mechanochemical polymerization, understanding the unique mechanochemical… show more Jihye Park, Ahyun Kim & Byeong-Su Kim Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access Capturing dynamical correlations using implicit neural representations Analysis of experimental data in condensed matter is often challenging due to system complexity and slow… show more Sathya R. Chitturi, Zhurun Ji & Joshua J. Turner Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access An entropy-controlled objective chip for reflective confocal microscopy with subdiffraction-limit resolution The optimized and disordered structures of planar diffractive lenses enable sub-diffraction limit focusing but… show more Jun He, Dong Zhao & Kun Huang Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access Organic radical ferroelectric crystals with martensitic phase transition Organic martensitic compounds are emerging smart materials with intriguing physical properties. Here authors show… show more Nan Zhang, Wencong Sun & Han-Yue Zhang Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access Metal-organic framework template-guided electrochemical lithography on substrates for SERS sensing applications Templating method holds great promise for fabricating surface nanopatterns. Here authors present a guiding growth… show more Youyou Lu, Xuan Zhang & Shikuan Yang Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access Reviving product states in the disordered Heisenberg chain Many-body localized systems are believed to reach a stationary state without thermalizing. By using analytical… show more Henrik Wilming, Tobias J. Osborne & Christoph Karrasch Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access A metal-free photoactive nitrogen-doped carbon nanosolenoid with broad absorption in visible region for efficient photocatalysis Carbon nanosolenoid materials with Riemann surfaces have unique structures and novel physical properties. Here,… show more Yu Zhou, Xinyu Zhang & Pingwu Du Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access epiAneufinder identifies copy number alterations from single-cell ATAC-seq data 'Here the authors present epiAneufinder, an algorithm for the identification of single-cell copy number… show more Akshaya Ramakrishnan, Aikaterini Symeonidi & Maria Colomé-Tatché Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access Blue organic light-emitting diode with a turn-on voltage of 1.47 V The requirement of a high applied voltage remains a critical issue for blue organic-light emitting diodes. Here,… show more Seiichiro Izawa, Masahiro Morimoto & Masahiro Hiramoto Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access Boosting urea electrooxidation on oxyanion-engineered nickel sites via inhibited water oxidation Urea electrooxidation reaction is of great importance in energy related applications and devices but is limited… show more Xintong Gao, Xiaowan Bai & Shi-Zhang Qiao Article 20 September 2023 | Open Access Water-assisted hydrogen spillover in Pt nanoparticle-based metal–organic framework composites Hydrogen spillover in MOFs is a debated research topic. Here the authors design a research platform for… show more Zhida Gu, Mengke Li & Fengwei Huo Article 19 September 2023 | Open Access Device-independent certification of indefinite causal order in the quantum switch Quantum theory allows for indefinite causal order, but experimental demonstrations of such scenarios have so far… show more Tein van der Lugt, Jonathan Barrett & Giulio Chiribella Article 19 September 2023 | Open Access Histidine modulates amyloid-like assembly of peptide nanomaterials and confers enzyme-like activity In this work, the authors report that Histidine residues play a critical role in modulating amyloid-like assembly… show more Ye Yuan, Lei Chen & Lizeng Gao Article 19 September 2023 | Open Access Identification of a common ice nucleus on hydrophilic and hydrophobic close-packed metal surfaces One key challenge in water science is to create a universal model that can predict the arrangement of water/solid… show more Pengcheng Chen, Qiuhao Xu & Nan Yao Article 19 September 2023 | Open Access A molecular pyroelectric enabling broadband photo-pyroelectric effect towards self-driven wide spectral photodetection Broadband spectral photoresponse has potential for optoelectronic devices, but obtaining high photoactivity… show more Xi Zeng, Yi Liu & Zhihua Sun Article 19 September 2023 | Open Access Concurrent oxygen reduction and water oxidation at high ionic strength for scalable electrosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide Electrosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide offers a cleaner, cost-effective alternative to anthraquinone processes.… show more Changmin Kim, Sung O Park & Liming Dai