Research Highlights

An article in Advanced Materials reports biosensor arrays based on a field-effect transistor that can identify bladder cancer with high accuracy from untreated urine samples.

An article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition discovers a pair of colloidal semiconductor magic-size clusters that can isomerize through either a direct and intra-cluster pathway or an indirect and inter-cluster pathway.

An article in Nature Communications reports on a flexible semimetal with high thermopower that can enable low-temperature solid-state cooling.

A manuscript in Advanced Materials reports a strategy to use electrode design to control the formation of the conduction channels in memristors, improving their reliability.

An article in Nature Communications combines electron diffraction and hierarchical cluster analysis to determine the precise, atom-level structure of covalent organic frameworks.

An article in Nature Materials uses entropy engineering to fabricate capacitors with high energy density.

An article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition finds that a frozen environment can accelerate the degradation of microplastics.

An article in Nature Materials sheds light on the mechanisms underlying dendrite formation in solid-state batteries and shows that a well-chosen metallic interlayer at the electrode–electrolyte interface can mitigate dendrite growth.

An article in Nature Communications reports a wireless theranostic contact lens that can sense and treat the onset of glaucoma.

An article in Nature Synthesis uses dynamic covalent chemistry to synthesize crystalline graphyne on a large scale.

An article in Communications Engineering reports the upcycling of waste plastics from vehicles into graphene that can be then used as an additive in foams for cars.

An article in Nature Communications presents a hardware implementation of a stochastic artificial neural network.

An article in Science Advances presents a platform with embedded metal–organic framework nanoparticles for efficient stem cell differentiation with minimal external input.

An article in Nature presents a superconducting diode that works without the need for a magnetic field.

An article in Nature Communications reports a 3D nanoprinting platform that combines a microfluidic atomic force microscope to precisely deposit tiny amounts of polymer ink and surface-initiated crosslinking chemistry to solidify the ink immediately upon delivery.

An article in Nature presents an all-polymer light-emitting diode that can be stretched to 100% strain while preserving a high brightness.

An article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society reports a family of metal–organic macrocycles that can be envisioned as discrete versions of electrically conductive metal–organic frameworks.

An article in Advanced Materials reports the development of a stretchable, breathable and stable energy harvester that harnesses energy from a range of human movements to power electronic devices.

An article in Nature Materials reports a 3D-printing method to fabricate electrodes that efficiently harness energy from photosynthetic cells.

An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports a surface treatment method that enables biocompatible, versatile and chemically stable functionalization of diamond quantum sensors.