In Brief

An article in Advanced Materials presents polymer donors with hydrogen-bonding spacers that enable intrinsically stretchable organic solar cells with a high power conversion efficiency and good stretchability.

An article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society reports a method to exploit the stereochemical differences between two sugar-based monomers to fabricate a family of plastic-like materials with a range of degradation and mechanical properties.

An article in Nature Nanotechnology presents a method to track the uptake and transport of plastic nanoparticles in crop plants.

A paper in Nature reports a laser-free method to entangle two trapped-ion qubits that has high fidelity and potential for scalability.

An article in Physical Review Applied reports an architecture based on a ring resonator that supports a network of superconducting qubits with enhanced connectivity and negligible crosstalk.

An article in Physical Review Letters reports a formalism enabling the use of a D-Wave quantum annealer to sample the equilibrium ensemble of dense polymer mixtures.

An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA reports the engineering of lymphatic vessels in collagen matrices.

An article in ACS Nano reports the design of polymer nanoparticles for the delivery of antiviral therapies across the blood–brain barrier to target HIV in the brain.

An article in Science Robotics presents an autonomous excavator system able to recognize and load a range of materials in different environments.

An article in npj Computational Materials reports a deep-learning workflow for the analysis of microscopy images that can adapt to changing conditions.

An article in Nature Chemistry uses the knowledge gathered in the Cambridge Structural Database to build a machine-learning model that predicts the oxidation states of metal–organic frameworks.

An article in npj Computational Materials reports a machine learning-based solver that predicts local stresses in mechanically heterogeneous solids.