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    Examining the in-plane spin components of the noncoplanar antiferromagnet manganese ditelluride provides spectroscopic and computational evidence of materials with a new type of plaid-like spin splitting in the antiferromagnetic ground state.

    • Yu-Peng Zhu
    • , Xiaobing Chen
    •  & Chang Liu

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    | Open Access

    A mechanical design is developed for the fabrication of ultralong, fracture-free and perturbation-free semiconductor fibres to address the increasing demand for flexible and wearable optoelectronics.

    • Zhixun Wang
    • , Zhe Wang
    •  & Lei Wei

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    Monolithic three-dimensional integration of two-dimensional field-effect transistors enables improved integration density and multifunctionality to realize ‘More Moore’ and ‘More than Moore’ technologies.

    • Darsith Jayachandran
    • , Rahul Pendurthi
    •  & Saptarshi Das

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    Water-responsive supercontractile polymer films composed of poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(ethylene glycol)-α-cyclodextrin inclusion complex contract by more than 50% of their original length within seconds after wetting and become soft and stretchable hydrogel thin films that can be used in bioelectronic interfaces.

    • Junqi Yi
    • , Guijin Zou
    •  & Xiaodong Chen

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    A miniaturized narrow-channel in-plane electrochemical capacitor shows drastically reduced ionic resistances within both the electrode material and the electrolyte and an ultrahigh areal capacitance by downscaling the channel width with femtosecond-laser scribing.

    • Yajie Hu
    • , Mingmao Wu
    •  & Liangti Qu

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    An injectable hydrogel for use as a scaffold to aid tissue repair is described, the material of which is conductive so that it can be used both for electrophysiological measurement and electrostimulation in closed-loop robot-assisted rehabilitation.

    • Subin Jin
    • , Heewon Choi
    •  & Mikyung Shin

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    | Open Access

    Flow limitation is exploited to develop a microfluidic device exhibiting flow–pressure behaviour analogous to the current–voltage characteristics of an electronic transistor.

    • Kaustav A. Gopinathan
    • , Avanish Mishra
    •  & Mehmet Toner

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    Proton-coupled electron-transfer reactions are used to achieve efficient chemical doping of organic semiconductor thin films under ambient conditions, and a reference-electrode-free, resistive pH sensor based on the method is proposed.

    • Masaki Ishii
    • , Yu Yamashita
    •  & Jun Takeya

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    A MicroLED lighting panel, assembled in 60 s by a surface-tension-driven fluidic self-assembly technique, gave a yield as high as 99.90% through the addition of a small amount of poloxamer to the assembly solution.

    • Daewon Lee
    • , Seongkyu Cho
    •  & Sunghoon Kwon

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    We report a simple method to fabricate chiroptical flexible layers via supramolecular helical ordering of conjugated polymer chains, providing direct, scalable realization of on-chip detection of the spin degree of freedom of photons.

    • Inho Song
    • , Jaeyong Ahn
    •  & Joon Hak Oh

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    Suppression of shallow traps responsible for dark count rates in polycrystalline methylammonium lead triiodide using diphenyl sulfide enables the production of metal-halide perovskite photon-counting detectors that allow sensitive detection of γ-ray spectra.

    • Ying Zhou
    • , Chengbin Fei
    •  & Jinsong Huang

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    Chips with 256 × 256 memristor arrays that were monolithically integrated on complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) circuits in a commercial foundry achieved 2,048 conductance levels in individual memristors.

    • Mingyi Rao
    • , Hao Tang
    •  & J. Joshua Yang

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    Perovskite LEDs with exceptional performance at high brightness are demonstrated achieving an operational half-lifetime of 32 hours, an important step towards commercialization opening up new opportunities beyond conventional LED technologies, such as perovskite electrically pumped lasers.

    • Yuqi Sun
    • , Lishuang Ge
    •  & Neil C. Greenham

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    | Open Access

    A virtual process game to benchmark the performance of humans and computers for the fabrication of semiconductors leads to a strategy combining human expert design with optimization algorithms to improve semiconductor process development.

    • Keren J. Kanarik
    • , Wojciech T. Osowiecki
    •  & Richard A. Gottscho

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    A class of dielectric copolymers called ladderphanes is shown to outperform existing dielectric polymers and composites, with high discharged energy density and charge–discharge efficiency even at temperatures up to 200 °C.

    • Jie Chen
    • , Yao Zhou
    •  & Qing Wang

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    A universal interface connects soft, rigid and encapsulation modules together to form robust, stretchable devices in a plug-and-play manner by pressing without using pastes, which will simplify and accelerate development of on-skin and implantable devices.

    • Ying Jiang
    • , Shaobo Ji
    •  & Xiaodong Chen

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    A study describes a wood-based, three-tailed, biodegradable seed carrier that self-drills into the ground in response to moisture fluctuations with a success rate higher than that of natural self-drilling seeds.

    • Danli Luo
    • , Aditi Maheshwari
    •  & Lining Yao

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    We report full-colour, vertically stacked µLEDs that achieve exceptionally high array density (5,100 pixels per inch) and small size (4 µm) via a 2D material-based layer transfer technique, allowing the creation of full-colour µLED displays for augmented and virtual reality.

    • Jiho Shin
    • , Hyunseok Kim
    •  & Jeehwan Kim

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    | Open Access

    Innovations in device design, material fabrication and deep learning are described, leading to a wearable ultrasound transducer capable of dynamic cardiac imaging in various environments and under different conditions.

    • Hongjie Hu
    • , Hao Huang
    •  & Sheng Xu

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    | Open Access

    The authors report observation of tunnelling magnetoresistance in an all-antiferromagnetic tunnel junction consisting of Mn3Sn/MgO/Mn3Sn, laying the foundation for the development of ultrafast and efficient spintronic devices using antiferromagnets.

    • Xianzhe Chen
    • , Tomoya Higo
    •  & Satoru Nakatsuji

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    The direct observation of in-plane charged domain walls in BiFeO3 ferroelectric films a few nanometres thick, their deterministic creation, manipulation and annihilation by applied voltage, as well the demonstration of their memristive functionality is reported.

    • Zhongran Liu
    • , Han Wang
    •  & He Tian

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    A new exchange-bias effect between two different antiferromagnetic layers enables the fabrication of all-antiferromagnetic structures that have a large room-temperature tunnelling magnetoresistance and potential applications for ultrafast memory technologies.

    • Peixin Qin
    • , Han Yan
    •  & Zhiqi Liu

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    | Open Access

    Vertical organic electrochemical transistors demonstrating unprecedented performances in both p- and n-type operation modes have been synthesized from new electro-active and ion-permeable semiconducting polymers by the interface engineering of electro-active blend layers.

    • Wei Huang
    • , Jianhua Chen
    •  & Antonio Facchetti

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    Ultrasmall monodisperse perovskite quantum dots are synthesized in situ on a substrate via ligand structure regulation, yielding the highest external quantum efficiency blue perovskite LEDs reported so far.

    • Yuanzhi Jiang
    • , Changjiu Sun
    •  & Mingjian Yuan

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    | Open Access

    A macroscopic and scalable pyroelectric energy harvester in the form of multilayer capacitors produces 11.2 J of electrical energy, with a pyroelectric material generating up to 4.43 J cm−3 per cycle.

    • Pierre Lheritier
    • , Alvar Torelló
    •  & Emmanuel Defay

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    A reaction is described combining oxidative polymerization and in situ reductive n-doping to yield poly(benzodifurandione), a facilely synthesized stable n-type conducting polymer with ultrahigh conductivity, with applications in organic electronics.

    • Haoran Tang
    • , Yuanying Liang
    •  & Fei Huang

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    The PiezoMem membrane responsive to hydraulic pressure is introduced, showing the ability to convert pressure pulses into electroactive responses for in situ self-cleaning and enabling broad-spectrum antifouling action towards a range of membrane foulants.

    • Yang Zhao
    • , Yuna Gu
    •  & Guandao Gao

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    Using a sol–gel passivation method, the fabrication of blue InGaN nanorod-LEDs with the highest external quantum efficiency value ever reported for LEDs in the nanoscale is demonstrated.

    • Mihyang Sheen
    • , Yunhyuk Ko
    •  & Changhee Lee

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    Clean van der Waals contacts of high-work-function metals have been demonstrated on few- and single-layered MoS2 and WSe2, leading to p-type characteristics on single-layer MoS2 and purely p-type characteristics on WSe2.

    • Yan Wang
    • , Jong Chan Kim
    •  & Manish Chhowalla

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    Vortices in an electron fluid are directly observed in a para-hydrodynamic regime in which the spatial diffusion of electron momenta is enabled by small-angle scattering rather than electron–electron scattering.

    • A. Aharon-Steinberg
    • , T. Völkl
    •  & E. Zeldov

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    By intercalating layered 2D atomic crystals with selected chiral molecules, a new class of chiral molecular intercalation superlattices is reported, demonstrating highly ordered structures and achieving high tunnelling magnetoresistance and spin polarization ratios.

    • Qi Qian
    • , Huaying Ren
    •  & Xiangfeng Duan

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    | Open Access

    An organic bipolar junction transistor composed of highly crystalline rubrene thin films has a device architecture that could be used in organic electronics with greatly improved high-frequency performance

    • Shu-Jen Wang
    • , Michael Sawatzki
    •  & Karl Leo

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