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    We report a strategy that yields thermally and hydrothermally stable silicates by expansion of a one-dimensional silicate chain with an intercalated silylating agent that separates and connects the chains.

    • Zihao Rei Gao
    • , Huajian Yu
    •  & Miguel A. Camblor

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    | Open Access

    The use of mega-electronvolt ultrafast electron diffraction combined with resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization yields data that can reveal the formation and subsequent structural relaxation of a molecular ion on an ultrafast timescale.

    • Jun Heo
    • , Doyeong Kim
    •  & Hyotcherl Ihee

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    The initial steps of the ion solvation process are observed for the solvation of a single sodium ion in liquid helium, opening possibilities for benchmarking theoretical descriptions of ion solvation.

    • Simon H. Albrechtsen
    • , Constant A. Schouder
    •  & Henrik Stapelfeldt

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    | Open Access

    We report organic molecules showing both efficient luminescence and near-unity generation yield of excited states with high spin multiplicity, simultaneously supporting a high efficiency of initialization, spin manipulations and light-based readout at room temperature.

    • Sebastian Gorgon
    • , Kuo Lv
    •  & Emrys W. Evans

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    | Open Access

    The potential of water-window X-ray absorption spectroscopy for disentangling individual aspects of the respective electronic and structural dynamics in ultrafast non-adiabatic dynamics of molecular systems in a liquid environment is established.

    • Zhong Yin
    • , Yi-Ping Chang
    •  & Hans Jakob Wörner

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    Using a specialized tip as a detector, the fingerprints of a single atom of iron and terbium are observed in synchrotron X-ray absorption spectra, allowing elemental and chemical characterization one atom at a time.

    • Tolulope M. Ajayi
    • , Nozomi Shirato
    •  & Saw-Wai Hla

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    | Open Access

    A type of universal scattering resonance between ultracold microwave-dressed polar molecules associated with field-linked tetramer bound states in the long-range potential well is observed, providing a general strategy for resonant scattering between ultracold polar molecules.

    • Xing-Yan Chen
    • , Andreas Schindewolf
    •  & Xin-Yu Luo

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    | Open Access

    Measurements of  isomerization rates  of CO isotopologues on an NaCl surface show a nonmonotonic mass dependence that arises from  resonantly enhanced cross-barrier coupling, or ‘tunnelling gateways’, which  are intrinsic to condensed-phase tunnelling.

    • Arnab Choudhury
    • , Jessalyn A. DeVine
    •  & Alec M. Wodtke

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    | Open Access

    Pressures of up to 900 gigapascals (9 million atmospheres) are achieved in a laser-heated double-stage diamond cell, enabling the synthesis of Re7N3, and materials characterization is performed in situ using single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

    • Leonid Dubrovinsky
    • , Saiana Khandarkhaeva
    •  & Natalia Dubrovinskaia

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    | Open Access

    A hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for solving many-electron problems is developed, enabling the simulation, with the aid of 16 qubits on a quantum processor, of chemical systems with up to 120 orbitals.

    • William J. Huggins
    • , Bryan A. O’Gorman
    •  & Joonho Lee

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    Liquid ultrafast electron scattering measures structural responses in liquid water with femtosecond temporal and atomic spatial resolution to reveal a transient hydrogen bond contraction then thermalization preceding relaxation of the OH stretch.

    • Jie Yang
    • , Riccardo Dettori
    •  & Xijie Wang

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    Optical imaging of single-molecule electrochemical reactions in aqueous solution enables super-resolution electrochemiluminescence microscopy, which can be used to monitor the adhesion dynamics of live cells with high spatiotemporal resolution.

    • Jinrun Dong
    • , Yuxian Lu
    •  & Jiandong Feng

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    Spectroscopic measurements confirm that when water is adsorbed on drops of an alkali alloy at low pressure a gold-coloured metallic layer forms as electrons rapidly move from the drop into the water.

    • Philip E. Mason
    • , H. Christian Schewe
    •  & Pavel Jungwirth

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    Experimental measurements of vibrational sum-frequency generation spectra indicate that the dielectric response of water near an electrode may be strongly asymmetric, with different responses to positive and negative electrode charge.

    • Angelo Montenegro
    • , Chayan Dutta
    •  & Alexander V. Benderskii

  • Letter |

    An analogue quantum simulator based on ultracold atoms in optical lattices and cavity quantum electrodynamics is proposed for the solution of quantum chemistry problems and tested numerically for a simple molecule.

    • Javier Argüello-Luengo
    • , Alejandro González-Tudela
    •  & J. Ignacio Cirac

  • Letter |

    Recombination of excitons to produce molecular light emission is made more efficient by controlling electron spin within the molecule to produce spin-triplet excitons only, without the usual accompanying spin-singlet excitons.

    • Kensuke Kimura
    • , Kuniyuki Miwa
    •  & Yousoo Kim

  • Letter |

    Colossal barocaloric effects are observed in the plastic crystal neopentylglycol and found to originate from the extensive molecular orientational disorder, giant compressibility and highly anharmonic lattice dynamics of the material.

    • Bing Li
    • , Yukinobu Kawakita
    •  & Zhidong Zhang

  • Letter |

    A fundamental electronic noise—beyond electronic thermal noise and voltage-activated shot noise—that is generated by temperature differences across nanoscale conductors is demonstrated, with possible implications for thermometry and electronics.

    • Ofir Shein Lumbroso
    • , Lena Simine
    •  & Oren Tal

  • Letter |

    Application of an electric field changes the transport and optical properties of samarium nickelate submerged in water, making it a suitable passive sensor of weak electric fields in salt water.

    • Zhen Zhang
    • , Derek Schwanz
    •  & Shriram Ramanathan

  • Letter |

    Magnetic hysteresis is observed in a dysprosocenium complex at temperatures of up to 60 kelvin, the origin of which is the localized metal–ligand vibrational modes unique to dysprosocenium.

    • Conrad A. P. Goodwin
    • , Fabrizio Ortu
    •  & David P. Mills

  • Letter |

    An analytical method of determining the mean first-passage time (the time taken by a random walker in confinement to reach a target point) is presented for a Gaussian non-Markovian random walker, thus revealing the importance of memory effects in first-passage statistics.

    • T. Guérin
    • , N. Levernier
    •  & R. Voituriez

  • Letter |

    Combining cavity-enhanced direct frequency comb spectroscopy with buffer gas cooling enables rapid collection of well-resolved infrared spectra for molecules such as nitromethane, naphthalene and adamantane, confirming the value of the combined approach for studying much larger and more complex molecules than have been probed so far.

    • Ben Spaun
    • , P. Bryan Changala
    •  & Jun Ye

  • Letter |

    Lithium–oxygen batteries allow oxygen to be reduced at the battery’s cathode when a current is drawn; in present-day batteries, this results in formation of Li2O2, but it is now shown that another high energy density material, namely LiO2, with better electronic conduction can be used instead as the discharge product, if the electrode is decorated with iridium nanoparticles.

    • Jun Lu
    • , Yun Jung Lee
    •  & Khalil Amine

  • Letter |

    The structure of the low-dimensional water confined in hydrophobic pores is shown, using electron microscopy and supported by molecular dynamics simulations, to be ‘square ice’, which does not have the conventional tetrahedral hydrogen bonding.

    • G. Algara-Siller
    • , O. Lehtinen
    •  & I. V. Grigorieva

  • Letter |

    Gas hydrates are ice-like solids that have guest species encaged within a crystalline water framework, making the empty hydrate a natural — though long assumed to be inaccessible — point of reference; it is now shown that several days of continuous vacuum pumping removes all guests from neon hydrate, and the physical properties of the empty hydrate have been determined.

    • Andrzej Falenty
    • , Thomas C. Hansen
    •  & Werner F. Kuhs

  • Letter |

    By passing light through a chiral sample — here vapours and solutions — in a specially designed ring cavity, the resulting chiral signals can be isolated from the achiral backgrounds and enhanced by a factor of more than 1,000, making them detectable in situations where conventional means of measurement fail.

    • Dimitris Sofikitis
    • , Lykourgos Bougas
    •  & T. Peter Rakitzis

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