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A DNA molecular computation platform allows the rapid diagnosis of lung cancer with high accuracy by analysing specific miRNA levels in clinical serum samples.
Lattice reconstruction in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides manifest in intrinsic asymmetry of electronic wavefunctions for 3R homo-bilayers and strong piezoelectric textures in 2H homo-bilayers.
A distance-dependent two-way magnetic resonance tuning platform combined with dual-contrast enhanced subtraction imaging enables quantitative sensing and imaging in deep tissues with minimal background noise.
Poly(methyl methacrylate) nanocomposites embedding CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals can be used to simultaneously achieve optimized parameters in scintillator devices.
Experimental realizations of magnetic skyrmions, particle-like spin swirls with topological protection, so far have required inversion symmetry breaking or a geometrically frustrated lattice. In centrosymmetric GdRu2Si2, in which a geometrically frustrated lattice is absent, a skyrmion lattice phase emerges, which is probably stabilized by four-spin interactions mediated by itinerant electrons in the presence of easy-axis anisotropy.
Magneto-optical interaction of light with magnetic metasurfaces can give rise to the photonic spin Hall effect such that the light trajectory depends on the polarization of the light. For disordered systems, the probability distribution of the spin-dependent trajectories is a sensitive tool to detect random nanoscale variations in the metasurface.
A multimodal imaging approach using a high-density lipoprotein-derived nanotracer with a perfluoro-crown ether payload enables myeloid cell dynamics to be studied in vivo in mouse models of atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction.
A new method to form Bose–Einstein condensates of quasiparticles based on the rapid decrease in the phonon temperature was proposed and shown experimentally.
A high-throughput nanoscale 3D microscopy technique, combining imaging flow cytometry with a point-spread function, allows 3D localization measurements in live flowing cells.
Polymers commonly are semiconducting or insulating because of a sizable energy gap in the density of states around the Fermi level. Yet, the phase transition from topologically trivial to non-trivial in on-surface synthesized π-conjugated polymers, due to a change of resonant form, stabilizes narrow bandgaps and bears in-gap zero-energy edge states in the non-trivial phase.
The addition of selective organ targeting molecules to nanoparticles allows the specific targeting of extrahepatic tissues, enabling gene editing of distinct cell populations outside the liver.
The controlled creation of magnetic skyrmions is a prerequisite for their application in future spintronic devices. While charge currents can induce skyrmions via spin torque, surface acoustic waves can do the same through magnetoelastic coupling of inhomogeneous strain paired with thermal fluctuations.
Atomically dispersed Rh on N-doped carbon exhibits 28- and 67-fold enhancements compared with state-of-the-art Pd/C and Pt/C, despite the low activity of Rh/C. The Rh single atoms exhibit high tolerance to CO poisoning compared to Rh nanoparticles.
Phage capsids modified with spatially defined patterns of host cell ligands can act as multivalent binders for the influenza A virus to prevent viral infection.
Mixed-charge nanoparticles preferentially assemble inside the lysosomes of cancer cells, which causes lysosomal membrane disruption and lysosome-dependent cell death in cancer but not in healthy cells.
Interfacing TMD monolayers with graphene enables the demonstration of bright, single and narrow-line photoluminescence arising solely from TMD neutral excitons.
Mechanically robust, centimetre-sized, molecularly thin nanoporous carbon membranes were fabricated via the thermal crosslinking of core–rim structured monomers, offering a high reverse electrodialysis short-circuit current with a giant output power density of 67 W m−2.
A ferritin nanoparticle that delivers the preS1 domain of the large hepatitis B surface protein to two specific myeloid cell populations provides a therapeutic vaccination strategy for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B.