Volume 20
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No. 12 December 2025
Supra-recyclable polymersThe image on the cover shows monomer crystals directly recycled from supramolecular polymers without using catalysts or solvents.
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No. 11 November 2025
Lasing in the far-infrared with graphene plasmonsThe image on the cover shows the simulated electric field distribution of a graphene-integrated quantum cascade laser cavity at the fundamental eigenmode frequency of 3.22 THz.
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No. 10 October 2025
Focus on biosensorsThe image on the cover shows two sugars from the same cell-surface glycan separated by 9 Å, visualized with RESI (resolution enhancement by sequential imaging) enabled by metabolic labelling with DNA barcodes.
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No. 9 September 2025
Nanoneedle arrays classify disease statesThe cover image illustrates a nanoneedle chip applied to live brain tissue to sample biomolecules for spatiotemporal lipidomics.
See Chenlei Gu et al.
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No. 8 August 2025
Better interfaces for better batteriesThe image on the cover shows the cross-section image of a lithium metal negative electrode after long-term cycling, where residual solid-electrolyte interphases are observed to accumulate at the surface.
See Hansen Wang et al.
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No. 7 July 2025
Operando X-rays decode CO2 electrolyser decayThe image on the cover shows the time–space concentration profile of alkali metal ions during the operation of CO2 electrolysers, elucidating catalyst and electrode degradation in these devices.
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No. 6 June 2025
Dynamic nanodomains in perovskitesThe cover image captures a snapshot of cubic methylammonium lead tribromide perovskite lattice dynamics, revealing a picosecond-lived octahedral out-of-phase tilt nanodomain that has a significant influence in the macroscopic performance of the material.
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No. 5 May 2025
Synthetic cells get RNA origami hardwareThe image on the cover shows co-transcriptionally folded RNA nanorings, highlighting the phenotypic plasticity of RNA origami cytoskeletal structures.
See Gopfrich and News & Views
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No. 4 April 2025
Polar domains relaxThe image on the cover shows the in-plane polarization of polar nanodomains of a 10-nm-thick 0.68PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3-0.32PbTiO3 relaxor ferroelectric thin film.
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No. 3 March 2025
Fluorinated sulfonamides for sodium-based batteriesThe image on the cover shows the formation process of a sodium fluoride interphase on a sodium metal surface by the reduction of fluorinated sodium salts solvated by a presalt solvent.
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No. 2 February 2025
Singlet–triplet qubits swapThe image on the cover shows numerical simulations of entanglement generation and distribution across an array of qubits, each encoded in the joint state of two hole spins.
See Xin Zhang et al.
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No. 1 January 2025
Memristors for on-chip intelligenceThe image on the cover shows the optoelectronic memristor cells to be fully integrated as a 128 × 8 multi-mode array for in-sensor computing applications.
See Heyi Huang et al.