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Andreev bound states can form in hybrid semiconducting-superconducting devices and can mirror the experimental signatures of the much sought topologically non-trivial Majorana bound states. Here, van Driel, Wang and coauthors present a method of directly measuring the spin-polarized excitation spectrum of Andreev bound states.

The development of electronic flying qubits requires the ability to generate and control single-electron excitations. Here the authors demonstrate quantum coherence of ultrashort single-electron plasmonic pulses in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer, revealing a non-adiabatic regime at high frequencies.

Ethanol electrosynthesis from CO reduction is achieved using an oxygen-affinity-engineered copper alloy catalyst. Unlike conventional CO dimerization pathways, which yield diverse products, this catalyst selectively promotes the CO–CH_x coupling route, enabling selective ethanol production.

The turn-off time is generally faster than the turn-on time in accumulation mode organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), but the mechanism is less understood. Here the authors find different transient behaviours of turn-on and turn-off in accumulation mode OECTs, and ion transport is the limiting factor of device kinetics.

GPAT1 is a mitochondrial outer membrane protein that catalyzes the first step of glycerolipid biosynthesis. Cryo-EM structures and functional studies of human GPAT1 uncover the molecular architecture and mechanism of this important acyltransferase.

Focused-ion beam (FIB) lithography enables high-resolution nanopatterning of 2D materials, but usually introduces significant damage. Here, the authors report a FIB-based fabrication technique to obtain high quality graphene superlattices with 18-nm pitch, which exhibit electronic transport properties similar to those of natural moiré systems.

The authors have demonstrated a method for real-time imaging of the interior of a battery using ultrasound imaging. This approach reveals effects that hinder fast charging, enabling researchers to develop new batteries and optimize their utilization.

An n-type semiconducting polymer is used to realize an organic electrochemical transistor working as a glucose sensor and an all-polymer enzymatic biofuel cell able to power the sensor itself.

Control of the directional photocurrent by polarized light in topological insulators may enable topological spintronics but is not yet well understood. Here the authors demonstrate that the directional photocurrent is due to the asymmetric optical transitions between topological surface states and bulk states.

Transient receptor potential (TRP) proteins are Ca²⁺-permeable cation channels activated by a range of chemical and physical stimuli. Here the authors describe a cryo-EM structure of the full-length TRPV2 channel that provides insight into the regulation of the TRPV subfamily of channels.

Introducing spin–orbit coupling by substrate proximity effect leads to an enhancement of superconducting phases in rhombohedral trilayer graphene.

Quantum error correction protocols aim at protecting quantum information from corruption due to decoherence and imperfect control. Using three superconducting transmon qubits, Chow et al. demonstrate necessary elements for the implementation of the surface error correction code on a two-dimensional lattice.

An array of superconducting nanocircuits has been designed that provides built-in protection from environmental noises. Such ‘topologically protected’ qubits could lead the way to a scalable architecture for practical quantum computation.

Unconventional unidirectional magnetoresistance observed in the heterostructures of a topological semimetal (WTe₂) and a magnetic insulator (Cr₂Ge₂Te₆) enables the electrical read-out of the magnetic states of a perpendicularly polarized magnet through longitudinal resistance measurements.

Andreev bound states in semiconductor–superconductor hybrid structures are studied using microwave spectroscopy — a tool that could be also used for investigating Majorana modes.

Strain in Si nanostructures is used to achieve higher carrier mobility, making these devices candidates for the next generation of transistors. Minamisawaet al. fabricate silicon nanowires subject to elastic tensile strain up to 4.5%, exceeding the limit achievable with the use of SiGe virtual substrates.

This study reveals the structural basis of auxin import by the AUX/LAX family. LAX3 binds auxin as well as herbicides via a proton-coupled mechanism, which offers insights into hormone recognition that is essential for lateral root growth.

A dynamical topological phase with edge qubits that are dynamically protected from control errors, cross-talk and stray fields, is demonstrated in a quasiperiodically driven array of ten ¹⁷¹Yb⁺ hyperfine qubits in a model trapped-ion quantum processor.

Organic neural implants hold considerable promise for biocompatible neural interfaces. Here, the authors employ polymer-based organic electrochemical diodes and transistors to develop neuron-sized complex circuits, enabling multiplexing without crosstalk and demonstrate that, when integrated onto ultra-thin plastic, these circuits achieve high performance while maintaining minimal invasiveness.

The integration of artificial neuromorphic devices with biological systems plays a fundamental role for future brain-machine interfaces, prosthetics, and intelligent soft robotics. Harikesh et al. demonstrate all-printed organic electrochemical neurons on Venus flytrap that is controlled to open and close.

Chemical controllers made from DNA can be programmed to implement any dynamic behaviour compatible with chemical kinetics.

Quantum supremacy is demonstrated using a programmable superconducting processor known as Sycamore, taking approximately 200 seconds to sample one instance of a quantum circuit a million times, which would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer around ten thousand years to compute.

Measurements combined with post-processing of their outcomes can be used to prepare ordered quantum states. It has been shown that they can drive a Nishimori phase transition into a disordered state even in the presence of quantum errors.

Rizzollo et al. show that BDH2 participates in iron distribution between cellular compartments, which sets the threshold for the ferroptosis vulnerability of the melanoma cell phenotypes, ultimately affecting their metastatic capacity

The 2D material hBN hosts various optically addressable spin defects, promising for quantum technology applications. Here the authors report the co-existence of spin-1 and spin-1/2 defects in hBN, show their room temperature coherent control and optical readout, as well as cross-relaxation.

Imaging studies show that topological protection in the quantum Hall state in graphene is undermined by edge reconstruction with a dissipation mechanism that comprises two distinct and spatially separated processes—work generation and entropy generation.

KtrAB is a major potassium uptake system that has been linked to the pathogenesis of many infectious bacteria. Here the authors show that KtrB from Vibrio alginolyticus contains an intrinsically disordered N-terminus that is key to its regulation.

Crystallization of acenes into high-mobility structures for transistors is achieved by pretreating the substrate in the region where crystallization is required. Cross-talk is prevented between devices by the amorphous material produced on the untreated region.

Ultrathin black phosphorus is a two-dimensional semiconductor with a finite band gap, unlike graphene, but it is known to degrade upon exposure to air. Here, the authors show that passivating few-layer samples of this material in an inert gas environment greatly improves the n-type charge transport.

Changes in the electronic states of two-dimensional semiconductor devices resulting from electrical gating can be monitored directly using micrometre-scale angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.

Analysis of over 6000 single-site variants of SARS-CoV-2 Papain-Like protease uncovers critical mutations involved in enzymatic function and highlight the potential for drug-escape.

Free carriers and electrical polarization coexist in ferroelectric metals. Here, the authors use a capacitive method to probe the electronic compressibility of free carriers in a tunable semimetal, extract the polarized contribution, and study the carrier dependence of the ferroelectric state.

Cryo-EM structures and mutagenesis of the archaeal 20S proteasome with a small molecular activator mimicking the HbYX motif reveal new details of a conserved gating switch mechanism and mechanistic differences between HbYX-dependent and -independent gate-opening

Here, the authors identify a third component of the outer membrane LPS translocon in Escherichia coli called LptM. Biochemical analysis and structural modelling reveal that LptM binds the LPS translocon by mimicking its native substrate, so stabilising an active conformation of the complex.

Despite recent progress in the production of bendable thin-film transistors, their development is limited by leakage currents and fragile inorganic oxides. Combining graphene and single-walled carbon nanotube electrodes with a geometrically wrinkled inorganic layer, highly stretchable and transparent field-effect transistors have now been demonstrated.

Designing conjugated polymers with high charge carrier mobility and fluorescence quantum efficiency, though attractive for optoelectronics, remains challenging. Here, the authors report a strategy for designing donor-acceptor copolymers whose optoelectronic properties exceed the state-of-the-art.

Despite their versatility, superconducting qubits such as transmons still have limited coherence times compared to resonators. Here, the authors show how to use a single transmon to implement universal one-qubit and two-qubit operations among nine qubits encoded in superconducting resonators’ eigenmodes.

Group III/nitride semiconductors have been grown epitaxially on the superconductor niobium nitride, allowing the superconductor’s macroscopic quantum effects to be combined with the semiconductors’ electronic, photonic and piezoelectric properties.

Transport measurements in twisted bilayer MoTe₂ reveal quantized Hall resistance plateaus and composite Fermi liquid-like behaviour under zero magnetic field, constituting a direct observation of integer and fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects.

Using Zr-doped HfO2 and ultra-thin indium tin oxide, Li et al. develop flexible field-effect transistors with a memory window of 2.78 V and bending reliability to enable high-performance back-end-of-line compatible wearable devices.

Traditional regulatory T cell (Tregs) assays utilize mixture of purified cell population. Here the authors develop a ‘single cell suppression profiling of human Tregs’ (scSPOT) with 52-marker CyTOF panel, a cell division detection algorithm, and a whole PBMC system to assess Treg suppressive function on all cell types simultaneously.

Ions move across cell membranes through either ion channels or ion pumps. Recently, atomic-resolution structures and high-resolution functional measurements of examples from both channels and pumps have begun to suggest that these molecules need not be as different as was once thought.

A minimal artificial Kitaev chain can be realized by using two spin-polarized quantum dots in an InSb nanowire strongly coupled by both elastic co-tunnelling and crossed Andreev reflection.

Efficient detection of single molecules is vital to many biosensing technologies, which require analytical platforms with high selectivity and sensitivity. Ren et al. combine a nanopore sensor and a field-effect transistor, whereby gate voltage mediates DNA and protein transport through the nanopore.