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Detecting the chirality of molecules is important in optics, biomedicine, and materials science, but the molecular chiroptical signals are typically weak in conventional circular dichroism. Here, the authors demonstrate strong chiroptical responses that reflect the molecular chirality in a single chiral nanoassembly synthesized from L/D-cystines.

On-chip circularly polarized light (CPL) detectors are relevant for various applications, but current approaches have shown a trade-off between wide spectral detection range, high discrimination ratio and high polarization sensitivity. Here, the authors report broadband high-performance CPL detectors based on twisted black phosphorus structures.

The development of sustainable water oxidation catalysts is crucial for hydrogen production, yet cobalt-based materials often suffer from instability. Here, the authors report that co-doping LiCoO₂ with nickel, iron, and palladium yields a durable electrode with stability of over 2,000 hours.

Topological metamaterial clothing based on metallic conductive textiles can be used to create robust biosensing networks on the human body that can monitor vital signs during exercise.

Homologous recombination is essential for DNA repair. Here, the authors present cryo-EM structures capturing five distinct intermediates of the RAD51 filament during strand exchange. These findings suggest a spatially coordinated, stepwise mechanism where the NTD guides DNA bending, while the L2 loop and S2 sites promote strand separation and product stabilization.

Activity-based protein profiling identifies covalent small molecules that potentiate the activity of the METTL5:TRMT112 complex through binding to a complexoform-restricted allosteric pocket absent in other TRMT112:methyltransferase complexes

The fabrication of electronic devices depends on semiconductor substrates for device growth. The etching technique implemented here by Cheng et al. allows the reuse of these substrates and suggests a more economic fabrication of electronic devices.

Phonon engineering with anisotropic Lorentz-type dielectric oscillations enables the creation of hyperbolic asymptotic line polaritons, achieving broadband diffraction-free propagation.

Dihydrouridine (D) is an abundant RNA modification but its functions are currently unclear. Here, authors develop CRACI, a sensitive method for transcriptome-wide, single-base D mapping, identifying sites across mammalian and plant transcriptomes and identifying DUS2L as a mitochondrial D writer.

By twisting bilayer conductive layers with engineered diffusivity, the authors realize moiré-driven thermal localization without nonlinearity, enabling commensurate and quasi-crystalline thermal patterns for programmable transport control.

Applying concepts from non-Hermitian physics to diffusive systems enables the static control of heat transport. Now, this notion is expanded to dynamic control, including a demonstration of programmed thermal transport in a metamaterial.

A two-dimensional van der Waals material, NbOCl₂, that simultaneously exhibits near-unity linear dichroism (~99%) over 100 nm bandwidth in ultraviolet regime and large birefringence (0.26–0.46) within a wide visible–near-infrared transparency window is reported.

Achieving wide-gamut structural colours with brightness control is challenging. Here, the authors demonstrate colours beyond Rec.2020 and continuous, polarizer-free brightness tuning in dielectric metasurfaces via mode interference and diffraction control.

The authors demonstrate an efficient way to generate high-purity vortex beams by applying optical neural networks to cascaded phase-only metasurfaces. Specifically, they present record-high-quality Laguerre-Gaussian (LG_p,l) optical modes with polynomial orders p = 10 and l = 200 with purity in p, l and relative conversion efficiency of 96%, 85%, and 70%, respectively.

The use of a nanopillar lattice and orbital angular momentum provides control over the directionality of light emission on the nanoscale.

Large-scale growth of single crystals on graphene can be useful for the development of 3D/2D or 2D/2D heterostructures. Here, through careful control of growth kinetics, the authors perform multiple cycles of direct growth/transfer of high-quality single-crystal GaN, using a single graphene/SiC substrate.

Here, the authors demonstrate a multi-momentum transformation metasurface. The orbital angular momentum meta-transformer reconstructs different vortex beams into on-axis distinct patterns, and the linear momentum meta-transformer converts red, green and blue beams to vivid color images.

Here, the authors demonstrate a re-programmable metasurface that can produce arbitrary holographic images for optical encryption. The encrypted information is divided into two matrices and defined to the incident laser to produce arbitrary holographic images.

Using channel-level decoupling to design independent photovoltage channels for each Stokes parameter with minimal crosstalk, a metaphotonic photodetector can be created that provides direct Stokes quantification.

Holographic techniques allow for the construction of 3D images by controlling the wave front of light beams. Huang et al.develop ultrathin plasmonic metasurfaces to provide 3D optical holographic image reconstruction in the visible and near-infrared regions for circularly polarized light.

Metasurfaces offer an approach for computer generated holograms with good efficiency and ease of fabrication. Here, Ye et al.report on spin and wavelength multiplexed nonlinear metasurface holography, showing construction of holographic images using fundamental and harmonic generation waves of different spins.

The wide range of properties encountered in metamaterials make them promising for numerous optical applications. Chenet al. build a plasmonic flat metamaterial lens with an abrupt phase change that functions as a convex lens for one handedness of light and a concave lens for the other.

Chiral metasurfaces have been produced, with experimental observation of intrinsic chiral bound states in the continuum, which may lead to applications in chiral light sources and detectors, chiral sensing, valleytronics and asymmetric photocatalysis.

Pseudouridine is prevalent modification in cellular RNA. Here, the authors show that the PUS7-mediated pseudouridylation of 7SK RNA regulates Pol II elongation and affects colorectal cancer cell survival and response to 5-FU treatment.

Bis-silylated alkenes offer the advantage of two functional handles with distinguished reactivity for downstream functionalization. Here, the authors report a nickel-catalyzed bis-silylation of internal alkynes to versatile silylated alkene intermediates which can be chemoselectively manipulated.

Realizing metasurfaces with reconfigurability, high efficiency, and control over phase and amplitude is a challenge. Here, Li et al. introduce a reprogrammable hologram based on a 1-bit coding metasurface, where the state of each unit cell of the coding metasurface can be switched electrically.

This work proposes a wet-chemical etching assisted aberration-enhanced single-pulsed femtosecond laser nanolithography, named “WEALTH”, for manufacturing small-size, large-area, deep holey nanostructures, promising for emerging nanophotonic devices.

N6 - methyladenosine (m6 A) is a prevalent and abundant mRNA modification, yet its cell-type specific roles remains unclear. Here, the authors show that m6 A modification differentially regulates the transcriptomes of brown and white adipose tissue, resulting in distinct impacts on systemic metabolism.

We demonstrate a 3D generalized vector vortex array generation with full polarization, phase, OAM, and spatial control, by using joint optimization in different diffraction orders based on a single-layer metasurface.

Electrocatalytic alkyne semi-hydrogenation to alkenes is challenging due to the hydrogen evolution competing reaction and over-hydrogenation. Here, the authors report Cu50Au50 alloy for high selectivity towards styrene production.

A zeolite-confined Cu single-atom cluster was developed for the electrochemical CO reduction application, which can achieve stable CO-to-acetate conversion at an industrial current density of 1 A cm⁻² at 2.7 V with a high acetate Faraday efficiency for over 1,000 h at atmospheric pressure.

The authors demonstrate ultra-broadband microscale optical dispersion in LiNbO₃ crystals, enabling precise and robust on-demand dispersion engineering in free space, with strong potential for applications in informatics and spectroscopy.

Electroreduction of low-concentration NO₃⁻ to NH₃ is limited by NO₃⁻ mass transfer. Here, the authors propose a strategy for NO₃ ⁻ enrichment through charge rearrangement within the inner Helmholtz plane, achieving near-unity conversion of NO₃⁻ to NH₃.

An unconventional machine learning-based inverse design framework enables the generation of ultrabroadband and band-selective thermal meta-emitters with complex 3D architectures and diverse material compositions.

Caustics, as a unique type of singularity in wave phenomena, occur in diverse physical systems. Here, the authors realize multi-dimensional customization of caustics with 3D-printed metasurfaces. This arbitrary caustic engineering is poised to bring new revolutions to many domains.

The authors demonstrate on-chip circularly polarized light detection using the chiral properties of transition metal dichalcogenide valleytronic transistors on centrosymmetric plasmonic metamaterials.

Spatiotemporal beams differ from standard spatial structured light. The authors introduce 2D spacetime duality to uncover the conventional–spatiotemporal beam connection, enabling the development of high-fidelity spatiotemporal beams.

Achieving sustainability in wireless communications is crucial yet poses significant challenges. To address this, the authors propose and demonstrate a solar-powered programmable metasurface enabling hybrid light-to-microwave wireless communications.

Topological photonic structures enable robust light transport but face coupling challenges. The authors demonstrate transverse spin matching governs the coupling between the topological waveguide and waveguide, achieving 96.3% theoretical and 94.2% experimental transmission efficiencies.