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Non-reciprocal transport in a homogeneous material enables controllable current rectification, but is usually very small. Yet, artificially breaking inversion symmetry in topological insulator nanowires yields a giant magnetochiral anisotropy rectification.
DNA nanotechnology enables the rational design of wide membrane nanopores for the direct and electrical single-molecule sensing of large proteins with hand-held analysis devices.
Hybrid single-electron turnstiles are candidates as a standard for the ampere expressing it with elegant simplicity. Yet, such devices may serve as a standard for the watt with similar elegance and simplicity.
Rhombohedral stacking of two identical non-ferroelectric monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides enables the observation of interfacial ferroelectricity.