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Electrostatic doping in vertical van der Waals CrI3–graphene heterostructures provides means to control the magnetic properties of monolayer and bilayer CrI3.
Electrical control of magnetism in a bilayer of CrI3 enables the realization of an electrically driven magnetic phase transition and the observation of the magneto-optical Kerr effect in 2D magnets.
An atomic force microscope is used as an ultralow current sensor to measure the reorganization energy of a single naphthalocyanine molecule during a redox reaction on a NaCl film.
Using a rigid tip removes artefacts associated with imaging the strongly varying tip–sample potential of intermolecular sites by atomic force microscopy.
The ring of a rotaxane molecule traverses a polymer track picking up leucine amino acids and synthesizing a homo-leucine oligomer, which in turn folds into an alpha helix and catalyses a chemical reaction.
Monodispersed superparamagnetic nickel colloidal nanocrystal clusters synthesized by pyrolysis can capture bacteria and bacterial spores and simultaneously exert antimicrobial activity.
The van der Waals gaps in h-BN and MoS2 provide quantum confinement effects at ambient temperature, dominating the entry barriers of protons and deuterons.
A trailing flexoelectric field induced by SPM tip motion enables the selective control of multiple domain switching pathways in ferroelectric materials.
Intercalation of copper and cobalt atoms into n-type SnS2 enables seamless integration of metal, and n- and p-type semiconductors in one parent 2D material.
Reducing the dimensionality of paramagnetic VSe2 results in the emergence of ferromagnetism that is observed in a monolayer and up to room temperature.
When a helix-based liquid crystal that incorporates molecular motors is illuminated locally with intensity above a certain threshold, a continuous, regular and unidirectional rotation emerges.
Electron holography allows the selective orbital occupation and spatial quantum confinement of electrons at the interface between two oxide insulators to be resolved.
A self-assembled modular siRNA delivery platform enables the construction of a theoretically unlimited repertoire of carriers to target distinct cell surface receptors in the service of personalized medicine.