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The coffee-ring effect has been a challenge for scalable fabrication and deployment of organic photovoltaics. Here, the authors employ a fluorinated rheology modifier to modulate the rheological properties and improve wettability, achieving an efficiency of 17.85% in green-printed solar modules.

An EC-NBI-based CAD system with advanced multi-stage pre-training fills endoscopy’s real-time diagnosis gap for colorectal lesions. It was shown to outperform other supervised methods and guides real-time biopsies.

Spin-waves have a variety of advantages for information processing, and here, Chen, Xu and coauthors demonstrate the deterministic switching of antiferromagnetic spin textures using non-linear spin-waves. The switching process is progressive, mirroring weighted sum operations in neuromorphic computing.

This study conducted a comprehensive scRNA-seq of ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC), identifying a malignant epithelial subcluster and 173 associated factors. Analysis highlighted crucial roles of STAT3, KLF5, and TRIM28, as a valuable resource for understanding OCCC.

Controlling the propagation of spin currents with opposite polarities in antiferromagnets has remained challenging. Now the frequency of coherently excited spin waves in a haematite-based device is shown to control the sign of the spin current.

In situ methods for water quality monitoring is crucial for global water use and management, though many conventional sensors have slow response time and are non-recyclable. Here, the authors report a recyclable amphiphobic dielectric material for fast monitoring of water pollutants.

The miniaturization of spectrometers to a submillimeter-scale footprint opens opportunities for applications in hyperspectral imaging and lab-on-a-chip systems. Here, the authors report a high-performance single-pixel photodetector spectrometer based on the III-V semiconductor p-graded-n junction, featuring a voltage-tunable optical response.

Metal-free catalysts offer a sustainable option for water oxidation but typically underperform compared to metal-based ones. Here, the authors report an all-organic catalyst that uses a rare oxide pathway to achieve high efficiency and long-term stability, comparable to metal-based systems.

The authors engineer chiral magnon modes in a strongly correlated oxide using lattice strain. The resulting long and tunable propagation of these modes is an exciting development in the field of magnetic materials.

Integrating spin waves with microwave circuits is promising for microwave nanoelectronics. Here, Yu et al. demonstrate a reconfigurable microwave-to-magnon transducer by covering yttrium iron garnet with small arrays of tailored magnetic nanodisks, which transmits microwave signals via sub-100-nanometer wavelength spin waves.

Long-distance magnon transport is highly desired for magnonics. Here, the authors demonstrate a millimetre-long magnon decay length in multiferroic heterostructures, which is attributed to magnon-polarons induced by the magnetoelastic coupling.

The de novo genome assembly of maize line Mo17 and comparative analysis with other sequenced maize lines show extensive gene-order variations. This study provides insights into maize evolution and has implications for improving maize hybrid lines.

Antiferromagnetic materials are potentially useful for spintronic applications. Here, the authors report high thermoelectric power value of 390 μV/K Seebeck coefficient in IrMn-based half magnetic tunnel junctions at room temperature.

The conventional approach with applying self-assembled monolayer suffers from limited interface coverage and weaker dipole interactions. Here, authors employ ferroelectric molecule to construct a dipole layer, achieving certified efficiency of 25.36% for inverted perovskite solar cells.

Short-wavelength spin waves with high group velocity are one of the key ingredients for the spin-wave based memory-logics. Here the authors demonstrate the propagation of spin waves with wavelength down to 50 nm and group velocity up to 2600 m s⁻¹ using ferromagnetic nanowires grown on a thin Y₃Fe₅O₁₂ film strip structure.

Current pulses of 10⁵ A cm⁻² can control the orientation of 100-nm-wide stripe domains in La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃ and spin waves of 10 GHz can propagate along these domains with a group velocity of 2.6 km s⁻¹.

Polar skyrmions are a topological polarization texture. While they have now been detected in numerous material systems, near universally these have required careful strain engineering. Here, Xue, Zhang, Zheng, Tong, Wang and coauthors observe polar skyrmions in the van der Waals ferroelectric CuInP2S6, without strain-engineering.

Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) is shown to promote colorectal cancer cell migration by activating the guanine nucleotide exchange factor Asef. Structure-based design resulted in the development of peptidomimetic inhibitors that disrupted APC–Asef interactions.

Majority of human long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are not conserved in mouse. Here the authors identify metabolic trait-associated lncRNA genes and show a functional role of a non-conserved human lncRNA, LINC01018, in lipid metabolism using a humanized mouse model.

Vavilovian mimicry is the phenomenon whereby weeds evolve to resemble co-located crop plants through unintentional human selection. Here the authors compare mimetic and non-mimetic populations of Echinochloa crus-galli (a weed mimic of rice) to characterize the genomic underpinnings of this case of Vavilovian mimicry.

Echinochloa is an important genus in the grass family as many of them are either problematic weeds or domesticated millets. Here, the authors assemble three polyploidy genomes in this genus using the diploid-assisted scaffolding method DipHic and provide genomic insights into the dual roles of some species as weeds and orphan crops.

Staphylococcus aureus secrete numerous effectors to evade or inhibit the host immune response, yet the mechanism underlying the effectors ability to manipulate the signalling pathways of macrophages remain unclear. Authors utilise in vitro and in vivo models to explore the role of extracellular fibrinogen-binding protein (Efb) in immune response modulation and pathogenicity.

Spin waves can provide efficient alternatives to microelectronics in applications such as image processing, but are difficult to realize on the nanoscale. Here, the authors develop a magnonic grating coupler, which allows for the conversion of microwaves to short-wavelength spin waves with large amplitudes.

The development of complex societies and their agricultural bases underlies key challenges we still face. This study demonstrates sustainable intensification of a pig and millet system that helped feed the earliest complex societies in North China.

High-performance organic solar cells call for novel designs of acceptor molecules. Here, He et al. design and synthesize a non-fullerene acceptor with an asymmetric structure for diverse donor:acceptor interfacial conformations and report a certificated power conversion efficiency of 18.2%.

Non-fullerene acceptors have contributed hugely to the best-performing organic solar cells, yet the photo-degradation remains a hurdle preventing the practical application. In this work, research group from Zhejiang University discovers non-fused acceptors with excellent photochemical tolerance in aerobic condition, and identify the main degradation pathway.

Tocilizumab has been used to treat the excessive inflammatory responses in COVID-19 patients. Here, the authors use single-cell RNA sequencing results from two severe COIVD-19 patients to provide high-dimensional immune profiling data, and to implicate potential cellular and molecular insights for the therapeutic effects of tocilizumab.

In organic photovoltaics, the best-performing devices are often based on fullerene derivatives as the electron acceptor counterpart. Here, the authors present new molecular electron acceptors with a helical structure and achieve 8.3% power conversion efficiency.

The molecular mechanisms underlying cervical carcinogenesis following integration of HPV DNA into the human genome remain elusive. Here, the authors perform long-read sequencing in 16 HPV16-positive cervical tumors and identify distinct integration types, structural variations and potential driver genes.

Pre-engraftment syndrome is a major consideration during clinical application of unrelated cord blood transfusion and monocytes represent a critical cell type in immune-pathogenesis. Here the authors further establish the role of monocytes and GM-CSF in pre-engraftment syndrome and show clinical administration of tocilizumab limits pathology in pre-engraftment syndrome pathology in patients.

The solar conversion efficiencies of photoelectrochemical catalysis are hindered by the light harvesting range. Here, the authors use near-infrared-active photoanodes that feature lattice-matched morphological hetero-nanostructures to realize efficient photoelectrochemical hydrogen production.

The precise control over nanoscale structures is crucial in developing new, functional nanomaterials. Here, authors demonstrate a controllable method to epitaxially stack CdS quantum dots into ZnS nanowires and show improved photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activities.