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Metal cations can form coordination complexes with the lone pair electrons of 2D metal chalcogenides, offering a potentially general strategy to surface functionalization.
The valley Hall effect in bilayer MoS2 transistors can be controlled using a gate voltage and the induced valley polarization imaged with Kerr microscopy.
Hybrid membranes made from protein amyloid fibrils and activated porous carbon can be used to remove heavy metal ions and radioactive waste from water.
Magnetic skyrmions can be stabilized at room temperature in cobalt layers sandwiched between heavy metal layers due to engineering of the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction.
Conductance oscillations periodic in Fermi energy and in magnetic flux measured in topological insulator nanoribbons reveal characteristic topological transport with quantized topological surface state subbands.
A photoactivatable nanoliposome carrying multikinase inhibitors tackles tumours by killing cancer cells through photodynamic therapy and simultaneously shutting down signalling pathways that allow cancerous cells to metastasize and escape treatment, offering a way to maximize the therapeutic efficacy of each treatment cycle.
π–π stacking and metal coordination allows the fluorescence properties of a tryptophan–phenylalanine dipeptide to be tuned from ultraviolet to visible as they self-assemble into nanoparticles, offering a durable and biocompatible imaging probe.
A DNA-based channel that undergoes a nanomechanical change in response to the binding of a specific ligand can be used to selectively transport small-molecule cargo across a lipid bilayer.
The spin transfer-induced resonant expulsion of the vortex core in magnetic tunnel junctions forms the basis of a novel integrated high-frequency threshold detector.
Bolometers with high responsivity and low electrical noise can be fabricated exploiting the conductance gap induced in graphene quantum dots by quantum confinement and their interaction with the substrate.
The electron spins in a linear array of three quantum dots can be manipulated, shuttled and read out individually with high fidelity, resembling the functioning principle of a CCD (charge-coupled device).
Electric field control of spin–orbit torque and magnetization switching can be achieved in a Cr-doped topological insulator thin film incorporated in a field-effect transistor structure, promising gate-controlled spintronic applications.