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    Solar energy’s promising new technology is cheap to make but can researchers find a form that lasts?

    • James Mitchell Crow

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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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    Excitons in the electronvolts range are found to couple strongly to coherent magnons in hundreds of microelectronvolts in an atomically thin two-dimensional antiferromagnetic semiconductor.

    • Youn Jue Bae
    • , Jue Wang
    •  & Xiaoyang Zhu

  • News & Views |

    A compound comprising both one- and two-dimensional components exhibits an unusual response to a magnetic field, demonstrating the potential for ‘heterodimensional’ materials that can host intriguing quantum behaviours.

    • Berit H. Goodge
    •  & D. Kwabena Bediako

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    A heterodimensional superlattice consisting of an alternating array of a two-dimensional material and a one-dimensional material shows unconventional octahedral stacking and an unexpected room-temperature anomalous Hall effect.

    • Jiadong Zhou
    • , Wenjie Zhang
    •  & Zheng Liu

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    | Open Access

    Selectively functionalized macrocycles were synthesized with reactivities that preferentially aligned to create well-defined pores across an ultrathin nanofilm offering a strategy to create subnanometre channels in polymer membranes, and demonstrating potential for accurate molecular separations.

    • Zhiwei Jiang
    • , Ruijiao Dong
    •  & Andrew G. Livingston

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    By combining large-scale first-principles GW-BSE calculations and micro-reflection spectroscopy, the nature of the exciton resonances in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices is identified, highlighting non-trivial exciton states and suggesting new ways of tuning many-body physics.

    • Mit H. Naik
    • , Emma C. Regan
    •  & Steven G. Louie

  • News & Views |

    Porous solids have been dispersed in water to produce suspensions that can carry much more oxygen than blood can. Such ‘porous water’ opens the way to water-based formulations for biomedical use.

    • Margarida Costa Gomes

  • Nature Podcast |

    Embedded ‘nanocages’ help water dissolve large amounts of gas, and potential evidence that hominins walked on two legs seven million years ago.

    • Benjamin Thompson
    •  & Shamini Bundell

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    A mechanical integrated circuit material based on Boolean mathematics and reconfigurable electrical circuits is created to demonstrate scalable information processing in synthetic, engineered soft matter.

    • Charles El Helou
    • , Benjamin Grossmann
    •  & Ryan L. Harne

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    Modification of the internal and external surface chemistry of microporous zeolite and metal–organic framework nanocrystals leads to a generalizable strategy to aqueous porous liquids and impart high gas-carrying capacities to liquid water.

    • Daniel P. Erdosy
    • , Malia B. Wenny
    •  & Jarad A. Mason

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    This work introduces lightweight, leaf-like photoelectrochemical devices for unassisted water splitting and syngas production, which could be used in the fabrication of floating systems for solar fuel production.

    • Virgil Andrei
    • , Geani M. Ucoski
    •  & Erwin Reisner

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    The nanostructured diamond capsule process with the inert gases solid argon and neon is demonstrated, where the trapped volatile gases could sustain their high-pressure states without confinement of conventional high-pressure vessels, opening up the possibility of in-depth investigations of high-pressure phenomena.

    • Zhidan Zeng
    • , Jianguo Wen
    •  & Qiaoshi Zeng

  • Nature Index |

    From nano-filters for tackling water pollution to protein fingerprinting that treats disease, these researchers are making their mark on the field.

    • Gemma Conroy
    •  & Benjamin Plackett

  • News & Views |

    Soft magnetic materials can be magnetized and demagnetized by weak magnetic fields, but lack the strength, toughness and malleability needed for many applications. An alloy that solves this problem has now been developed.

    • Easo P. George

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    | Open Access

    An iron–cobalt–nickel–tantalum–aluminium multicomponent alloy with ferromagnetic matrix and paramagnetic coherent nanoparticles is described, showing high tensile strength and ductility, along with very low coercivity.

    • Liuliu Han
    • , Fernando Maccari
    •  & Dierk Raabe

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    Fabrication of a low-dimensional metal halide perovskite superlattice by chemical epitaxy is reported, with a criss-cross two-dimensional network parallel to the substrate, leading to efficient carrier transport in three dimensions.

    • Yusheng Lei
    • , Yuheng Li
    •  & Sheng Xu

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    | Open Access

    A synthetic cell-cell adhesion logic using swarming E. coli with 4 bits of information is introduced, enabling the programming of interfaces that combine to form universal tessellation patterns over a large scale.

    • Honesty Kim
    • , Dominic J. Skinner
    •  & Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse

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    Electrons in a pure-carbon material display properties that are reminiscent of those in heavy-element compounds. A model inspired by this link hints at how a single-element material can exhibit complex electronic behaviour.

    • Aline Ramires

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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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    An alternating stack of a candidate spin liquid and a superconductor shows a spontaneous vortex phase in the superconducting state without magnetism in the normal state. This indicates the presence of  unconventional magnetic ordering independent of the superconductor.

    • Eylon Persky
    • , Anders V. Bjørlig
    •  & Beena Kalisky

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    The ability to resolve single atoms in a liquid environment is demonstrated by combining a transmission electron microscope and a robust double graphene liquid cell, enabling studies of adatom motion at solid–liquid interfaces.

    • Nick Clark
    • , Daniel J. Kelly
    •  & Sarah J. Haigh

  • News & Views |

    Applying strain to a material that has a type of magnetism called antiferromagnetism allows its magnetization to be fully switched with an electric current — making it appealing for use in next-generation magnetic memory devices.

    • Kab-Jin Kim
    •  & Kyung-Jin Lee

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    By examining three model pyroelectric materials with different bonding characters along the out-of-plane direction, it is shown that their pyroelectric coefficients increase rapidly when the thickness of free-standing sheets becomes small.

    • Jie Jiang
    • , Lifu Zhang
    •  & Jian Shi

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    Using integrated differential phase contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy, the atomic imaging of single pyridine and thiophene molecules identifies host–guest interactions in zeolite ZSM-5 and their adsorption and desorption behaviours can be studied.

    • Boyuan Shen
    • , Huiqiu Wang
    •  & Fei Wei

  • News & Views |

    A mechanism resembling a crankshaft switches the electric polarization of a material in response to changes in an applied magnetic field. The resulting four-state switch is linked to the material’s intriguing topology.

    • Wei Ren
    •  & Laurent Bellaiche

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    | Open Access

    The discovery of graphite–diamond hybrid carbon, Gradia, which consists of graphite and diamond nanodomains interlocked through coherent interfaces, clarifies the long-standing mystery of how graphite turns into diamond.

    • Kun Luo
    • , Bing Liu
    •  & Yongjun Tian

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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

  • News & Views |

    A simple method for incorporating molecules into the gaps of stacked semimetallic materials through immersion offers an efficient way of filtering electrons, which could be useful for information-storage technologies.

    • Xi Ling

  • Research Briefing |

    Membranes made from metal–organic frameworks contain modular pores that can separate mixtures of gas. By changing the shape of these pores to improve molecular separation, we produced a membrane that could remove nitrogen and carbon dioxide from natural gas in an energy-efficient and cost-effective way.

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    A metal–organic framework membrane based on fumarate and mesaconate linkers is shown to have a pore aperture shape that enables efficient and cost-effective removal of nitrogen and carbon dioxide from methane.

    • Sheng Zhou
    • , Osama Shekhah
    •  & Mohamed Eddaoudi

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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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