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    The chemistry at the interface between electrolyte and electrode plays a critical role in determining battery performance. Here, the authors show that a NaBr enriched solid–electrolyte interphase can lower the surface diffusion barrier for sodium ions, enabling stable electrodeposition.

    • Snehashis Choudhury
    • , Shuya Wei
    •  & Lynden A. Archer

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    The use of metal nanostructures for surface colourization has attracted considerable interest following recent developments in plasmonics. Here, Guayet al. use a bottom-up approach where picosecond laser pulses can produce a full palette of non-iridescent colours on silver, gold, copper, and aluminium.

    • Jean-Michel Guay
    • , Antonino Calà Lesina
    •  & Arnaud Weck

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    Graphene nanoribbons are promising candidates for 2D material electrical interconnects; however, the top-down fabrication of nanoribbons has remained a challenge. Here, Chenet al. have used a hexagonal boron nitride template to grow narrow, integrated graphene nanoribbons with small bandgaps.

    • Lingxiu Chen
    • , Li He
    •  & Mianheng Jiang

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    Ostwald ripening is thermodynamically favoured in many liquid and gas systems, where small particles tend to dissolve into large ones. Against this effect, Huanget al. use patterned microstructures to guide the evolution of two-dimensional liquid foams as a platform for the assembly of nanoparticles.

    • Zhandong Huang
    • , Meng Su
    •  & Yanlin Song

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    Materials with spatially modulated nonlinear optical properties are used for quasi-phase matching. Here, Yanet al. exploit the nonlinearity of intermolecular charge transfer states together with oblique-angle deposition to achieve nanoscale modulation of the second-order susceptibility.

    • Yixin Yan
    • , Yakun Yuan
    •  & Noel C. Giebink

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    Liquid metal dealloying produces topologically complex nanoporous structures, however little is known about how they form. Here, the authors use mesoscale phase-field modeling and experiments to show that structure formation is governed by both interfacial spinodal decomposition and diffusion-coupled growth.

    • Pierre-Antoine Geslin
    • , Ian McCue
    •  & Alain Karma

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    The demonstration of visible frequency metasurfaces with broadband optical response is challenging due to plasmonic losses and non-uniform nanofabrication. Here, Wenet al. demonstrate a helicity multiplexed metasurface hologram capable of achieving high efficiency and image quality in the visible and near infrared.

    • Dandan Wen
    • , Fuyong Yue
    •  & Xianzhong Chen

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    Cooling hot surfaces by boiling water is widely practiced, but the amount of heat transfer is normally constrained by vapour layer formation at sufficiently high temperatures. Here, the authors report the maximum in the critical heat flux on textured hydrophilic surfaces at an intermediate texture density.

    • Navdeep Singh Dhillon
    • , Jacopo Buongiorno
    •  & Kripa K. Varanasi

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    Plasmonic nanostructures are a promising alternative to conventional pixels, where their characteristics at the nanoscale offer many benefits. Franklin et al. combine plasmonic surfaces with liquid crystals to create voltage-tunable polarization-independent color pixels for reflective displays.

    • Daniel Franklin
    • , Yuan Chen
    •  & Debashis Chanda

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    Electron-beam lithography is often used for patterning of asymmetric metal electrodes for nanoscale devices, but suffers from several limitations. Here, the authors report a new adhesion lithography process, which allows for high-throughput and simple fabrication of nanogap metal electrodes.

    • David J. Beesley
    • , James Semple
    •  & John C. deMello

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    The sensitivity and selectivity of graphene-based biosensors depends on attaching various functional groups to graphene. Hirtz et al. use dip-pen nanolithography to directly write phospholipid membranes on graphene, which enables multiplexed and heterogeneous non-covalent functionalization.

    • Michael Hirtz
    • , Antonios Oikonomou
    •  & Aravind Vijayaraghavan

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    The use of III-V semiconductor nanowires can overcome the need for lattice matching in multi-junction solar cells, which restricts the choice of materials and their bandgaps. This work demonstrates efficient solar cells with GaAsP single nanowires with tunable bandgap and grown on low-cost Si substrates.

    • Jeppe V. Holm
    • , Henrik I. Jørgensen
    •  & Martin Aagesen

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