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A Berry curvature dipole can be generated at certain symmetry-mismatched van der Waals hetero-interfaces even though each material has no Berry curvature dipole in its band structure.

Solution-processed, environmentally-benign quantum dots are able to emit stable streams of very pure single-photons with an optical coherence time reaching 250 picoseconds.

Magnetic domain walls can modulate spin-wave transport in perpendicularly magnetized channels, while magnon spin current can drive domain wall motion in the bi-doped yttrium iron garnet channel device.

Coupling between electrons and water hydrons at the graphene–water interface provides a new way to cool heat in graphene.

In a simple two-probe device made of van der Waals dichalcogenide nano-flakes, two pathways are found to switch ferro-rotational domain states by application of a volt-scale voltage.

Discovery of a novel axis through which multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) elicit toxicity in human macrophages, involving the propagation of inflammatory signalling via the Siglec-14-DAP12-Syk pathway, and how it may be controlled pharmacologically.

The level of non-equilibrium activity of the cytoskeleton network at different time and length scales can be quantified by observing the bending dynamics of embedded nanotube probes.

Multidimensional synchrotron in operando studies of the electrode–electrolyte interface disclose the manganese dissolution and redeposition dynamics on the electrodes upon cycling.

High-energy electrons that collide at a beam splitter repel each other because of strong Coulomb interactions, which could be harnessed for quantum information processing.

Floatable hydrogel photocatalytic platform at the air–water interface features practical advantages for scale-up of solar H₂ production with light delivery, supply of water, and instantaneous gas separation.

Growth of molybdenum disulfide at 275 °C and monolithic integration of 2D transistors with silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor circuits have been demonstrated.

Single blood vessel analysis by artificial intelligence (AI) reveals heterogeneous vascular permeability among different tumour types, which is leveraged in rationally designing protein nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems to achieve active trans-endothelial permeability in tumours.

Drug delivery to the bone marrow has limited efficiency, hitchhiking on bone marrow homing neutrophils offers a solution.

A study of the transport of gold nanoparticles in the kidney nephron shows a previously unreported transport pathway.

Combination of physical tissue expansion and super-resolution radial fluctuations achieves nanoscale resolution in pathology specimens with LED-based widefield microscopy.

An in-memory factorization device, based on a phase-change material, shows enhanced capabilities in solving large-scale factorization problems due to improved energy, area and time efficiencies of the memory function.

The n- and p-type channel characteristics of WSe₂ are exploited to implement multiply–accumulate and activation functions simultaneously in an in-memory computing core.

High-T_c superconducting nanowire detectors can detect single photons of telecom wavelengths at a temperature of 25 K and may enable applications in quantum sensing and quantum information processing.