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  • The editorial team present a selection of highlights of research published in Communications Engineering in 2025

    • Pengfei Liu
    • Philip Coatsworth
    • Massimo Mastrangeli
    ReviewsOpen Access
    Communications Engineering
    Volume: 5, P: 1-13

  • The Editorial Board and Editorial Team are delighted to present a selection of short Research Highlights describing some of our favourite Communications Engineering publications of 2023.

    • Miranda Vinay
    • Liwen Sang
    • Chaoran Huang
    ReviewsOpen Access
    Communications Engineering
    Volume: 2, P: 1-7

  • Most synthetic communities are unidirectional or two-way interaction without dynamic feedback. Here, the authors report a dynamic feedback system involving artificial cell species, biological cell species, and their environment using pH-sensitive molecule that phase-shift between fluid and gel phases.

    • Shubin Li
    • Yingming Zhao
    • Xiaojun Han
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-10

  • On International Women in Engineering Day, members of our editorial board highlight individuals who have inspired them during their research careers.

    • Alessandro Rizzo
    • Damien Querlioz
    • Liangfei Tian
    ReviewsOpen Access
    Communications Engineering
    Volume: 1, P: 1-4

  • Isolated droplets can be used as micro-reactors, yet it is challenging to operate them functionally in solution and observe chemical exchanges between droplets. Here, Tian et al. use an acoustic trap to assemble water-based micro-droplets into periodic arrays, spontaneously separated from solution media.

    • Liangfei Tian
    • Nicolas Martin
    • Stephen Mann
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 7, P: 1-10

  • Quantitatively studying the partitioning of biomolecules and reaction equilibria in cellular systems is an enormous challenge. Now, a multiphase coacervate model system provides insight into this complex biological problem, illustrating how coexisting phases influence RNA partitioning and duplex dissociation.

    • Shuqi Wu
    • Liangfei Tian
    News & Views
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 14, P: 1095-1097

  • The development of microscale materials with cell-like functions and collective behaviors is an important milestone in bottom-up synthetic biology. Here the authors employ a bio-inspired inorganic synzyme to construct a micro-compartment with multi-functional activity providing a step towards the development of protocell reaction networks.

    • Pierangelo Gobbo
    • Liangfei Tian
    • Stephen Mann
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-9

  • The authors propose a hierarchical defect engineering strategy for ferroelectric oxides to achieve full-spectrum optical absorption and boost broadband self-powered photodetection, realizing self-powered photodetection in the 250–5000 nm range with a responsivity of >1 mA/W.

    • Yaqian Wang
    • Ruirui Liu
    • Yicheng Wu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-11

  • The ability to mimic aspects of cellular process that rely on reaction-diffusion gradients could provide a step to building life-like systems capable of complex behaviour. Here the authors demonstrate morphological differentiation in coacervate micro-droplets.

    • Liangfei Tian
    • Mei Li
    • Stephen Mann
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-13

  • Although many systems that involve protocell–protocell interactions have been developed, there are fewer reports of protocell–environment interactive systems. Now, helical hydrogel filaments—in which enzyme-containing proteinosomes are immobilized—have been shown to contract and expand as the local chemical environment changes. Enzyme processing regulates the chemomechanical responses to generate different modes of actuation in the soft microstructures.

    • Ning Gao
    • Mei Li
    • Stephen Mann
    Research
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 13, P: 868-879