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    The epitaxial synthesis of high-density, vertically aligned arrays of two-dimensional (2D) fin-oxide heterostructures is described, enabling the fabrication of 2D fin field-effect transistors with high electron mobility and desirable low-power specifications.

    • Congwei Tan
    • , Mengshi Yu
    •  & Hailin Peng

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    Particles that self-assemble from nanoribbons into bow-tie-shaped structures can be tailored to change the degree of their twist. A search for how best to quantify this twist homes in on a measure of how the bow ties respond to light.

    • Bart Kahr

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    Self-limited assembly of 'imperfect' chiral nanoparticles enables formation of bowtie-shaped microparticles with size monodispersity and continuously variable chirality to be used for printing photonically active metasurfaces.

    • Prashant Kumar
    • , Thi Vo
    •  & Nicholas A. Kotov

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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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    The compatibility of a material with its environment is important for real-world applications. A framework has been developed to translate the amino-acid sequence of segments of proteins into engineered synthetic polymers, enabling the creation of ensembles of polymers with properties matching those of mixtures of proteins.

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    A hydrogen-rich compound has taken the lead in the race for a material that can conduct electricity with zero resistance at room temperature and ambient pressure — the conditions required for many technological applications.

    • ChangQing Jin
    •  & David Ceperley

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    | Open Access

    Information from natural protein libraries was extracted and used to design heteropolymer ensembles as mixtures of disordered, partially folded and folded proteins, providing valuable guiding principles to synthetically realize protein properties.

    • Zhiyuan Ruan
    • , Shuni Li
    •  & Ting Xu

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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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    In optimally doped Nd0.8Sr0.2NiO2H epitaxial film, combined state-of-the-art experimental and theoretical approaches show abundant hydrogen with zero resistivity, and its critical role in superconductivity in epitaxial infinite-layer nickelates.

    • Xiang Ding
    • , Charles C. Tam
    •  & Liang Qiao

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    Varying growth temperatures enables the tuning of the degree of disorder, which is fully described by the absence/presence of medium-range order and temperature-dependent densities of nanocrystallites, and electrical conductivity in amorphous monolayer carbon films.

    • Huifeng Tian
    • , Yinhang Ma
    •  & Lei Liu

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    Two microscopy techniques have been merged into a tool for twisting ultrathin sheets of atoms relative to each other. The approach offers a new angle for studying the electronic properties of exotic layered materials.

    • Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau

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    By using new on-chip terahertz spectroscopy techniques to measure the absorption spectra of a graphene microribbon as well as the energy waves close to charge neutrality, hydrodynamic collective excitations are observed.

    • Wenyu Zhao
    • , Shaoxin Wang
    •  & Feng Wang

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    In current stretchable electronic devices, connection points between modules are made using commercially available pastes and break easily under mechanical deformation. An innovative connection interface has been developed to enable robust stretchable devices to be reliably assembled in a Lego‑like manner by simply pressing the interfaces of two modules together without pastes.

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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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    When a semiconductor material called black phosphorus is hit with intense laser light, the behaviour of its electrons is found to change. The discovery opens a route to time-dependent engineering of exotic electronic phases in solids.

    • Alberto Crepaldi

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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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    In black phosphorus, a model semiconductor, analysis of time and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements demonstrates a strong light-induced band renormalization with light polarization dependence, suggesting pseudospin-selective Floquet band engineering.

    • Shaohua Zhou
    • , Changhua Bao
    •  & Shuyun Zhou

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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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    Organic electrochemical transistors could be better than conventional inorganic devices for certain uses, but have been held back by performance issues. The solution could be to build up these organic transistors like a sandwich.

    • Camille Cunin
    •  & Aristide Gumyusenge

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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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    A 3D printing platform comprising a rotational multimaterial printhead is demonstrated, enabling the fabrication of helically architected filaments and lattices with programmable subvoxel control.

    • Natalie M. Larson
    • , Jochen Mueller
    •  & Jennifer A. Lewis

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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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    Placing monolayer tungsten diselenide on Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene promotes enhanced superconductivity, indicating that proximity-induced spin–orbit coupling plays a key role in stabilizing the pairing, paving the way for engineering tunable, ultra-clean graphene-based superconductors.

    • Yiran Zhang
    • , Robert Polski
    •  & Stevan Nadj-Perge

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    Ferroelectricity has been found in a superconducting compound. Strong coupling between these two properties enables ferroelectric control of the superconductivity, which could prove useful for quantum devices.

    • Kenji Yasuda

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    A van der Waals crystal, niobium oxide dichloride, with vanishing interlayer electronic coupling and considerable monolayer-like excitonic behaviour in the bulk, as well as strong and scalable second-order optical nonlinearity, is discovered, which enables a high-performance quantum light source.

    • Qiangbing Guo
    • , Xiao-Zhuo Qi
    •  & Andrew T. S. Wee

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    The authors show a hysteretic behaviour of superconductivity as a function of electric field in bilayer Td-MoTe2, representing observations of coupled ferroelectricity and superconductivity.

    • Apoorv Jindal
    • , Amartyajyoti Saha
    •  & Daniel A. Rhodes

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    A two-dimensional crystalline polymer of C60, termed graphullerene, is synthesized by chemical vapour transport, and mechanically exfoliated to produce molecularly thin flakes with clean interfaces for potential optoelectronic applications.

    • Elena Meirzadeh
    • , Austin M. Evans
    •  & Xavier Roy

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