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Coupling the emission of upconversion nanoparticles to gap plasmon modes enables a direct observation of upconversion superburst with directional, fast and ultrabright luminescence.
Engineering the interlayer coupling in a van der Waals heterostructure enables electrical control over the transport and density of valley-polarized interlayer excitons.
A non-precious metal cobalt phosphide hydrogen evolution catalyst is found to be active and durable in a commercial-scale polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyser.
Lithium whisker growth can be suppressed under mechanical constraints, as revealed by an experimental set-up combining an environmental transmission electron microscope and an atomic force microscope.
Subpicosecond spin-exchange Auger interactions realized in manganese-doped quantum dots allow for manipulating hot carriers before their intraband cooling.
A tenfold difference in the frequency of translocation events is observed when protein molecules are passed in the forward and reverse direction through a naked truncated pyramidal silicon nanopore. The electro-osmotic vortex–protein interaction is found to determine the rectification.
The mechanistic electrochemical mass spectrometry study of ethylene production on Cu-based nanocatalysts under CO2/CO co-feeds indicates the existence of separate, non-scrambling reactant-specific surface adsorption sites for CO2 and CO, which provides guidance for the design of CO2 reduction reaction electrocatalysts.
Engineering multiple moiré patterns within a boron nitride–graphene–boron nitride heterostructure enables tunable crystal symmetry and strong modification of the graphene band structure.
A new DNA logic circuits architecture based on single-stranded logic gates and strand-displacing DNA polymerase requires less computation time and fewer DNA strands.
Mechanically and electronically stable graphene/molecule/graphene devices can be fabricated by combining a covalent binding of the molecules to the substrate with an optimized intermolecular π–π interaction.
An imaging technique can acquire surface-enhanced Raman scattering intensity fluctuations at 800,000 frames per second, revealing the dynamics of plasmonic hotspots at the single-particle level.
All-electrical switching of magnetization holds promise for applications in information technologies with low power consumption. Here, current-induced spin–orbit torque switches the magnetization in SrIrO3/SrRuO3 bilayer structures at 70 K in the absence of an external magnetic field.
Polymer nanocapsules, assembled around a ribonucleoprotein complex of Cas9 nuclease and a single-guide RNA, enable safe and efficient gene editing in vitro and in vivo.
Catalytic gold nanoclusters that respond to protease activity in vivo and are excreted in urine can offer a quick colorimetric tool for disease detection in resource-limited settings.
In situ investigation of a single nanowire/quantum dot heterojunction solar cell using a custom-designed photoelectric transmission electron microscope set-up reveals the possibility of achieving improved photovoltaic performance.
The Weyl semimetal WTe2 possesses strong spin–orbit coupling and time-reversal-protected spin polarization in surface and bulk states. In a WTe2/permalloy heterostructure, WTe2 can act as a spin current source that enables magnetization switching at low current densities.
Local changes of the Coulomb interaction due to external dielectric environment fluctuations present a new type of disorder in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides.