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Engineering catalyst interfaces plays a key role in designing supported metal systems. Here, the authors report that Ni nanoparticles redisperse from SiO₂ to molybdenum carbide, forming dual interfaces that enhance tandem CO₂ hydrogenation.

The efficiency of large-scale hydrogen production is limited by slow oxygen evolution kinetics. Here, the authors report a heterostructure catalyst that activates lattice oxygen to achieve efficient and durable oxygen evolution at high current densities.

The role of disorder in high-entropy oxides in electrocatalysis and zinc–air batteries remain unclear. Here, the authors induce controlled multilevel structural, electronic and atomic disorder to create new active sites, enabling robust, balanced oxygen catalysis and efficient zinc–air batteries.

The study introduces polyethyleneimine as an additive in a thermocell, enhancing thermopower from 1.4 to 7.76 mV/K. It achieves long-term stability and scalability by enabling thermosensitive adsorption-desorption, selective reactions, and Manning condensation, converting low-grade heat to electricity efficiently.

This work effectively addresses the long-standing challenge of competitive kinetics in heterogeneous Fenton-like systems through the synergistic interaction between nitrogen vacancies (Nv) and Fe sites on carbon nitride.

Producing H₂ from water using electricity and earth-abundant elements is necessary for worldwide renewable fuel production, yet most electrocatalysts have sluggish activities or poor stabilities. Here, authors show vanadium oxide modified copper-doped nickel to enable active and durable H₂ evolution.

Electrocatalytic synergy is a functional yet underrated concept in electrocatalysis. Here the authors disclose interphasic synergy between Ni(OH)2 and Ni-N/Ni-C phases for hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline media.

Traditional nanopore sensors use barrel-shaped protein channels. Here, the authors report on a study into the use of globular protein, ferritin, as a nanopore sensor, demonstrating membrane insertion and sensor application, showing the potential of non-barrel-shaped proteins for nanopore sensing.

Ni–Fe based compound are known as active electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction, but not a good choice for the other half-reaction of water-splitting. Here the authors report a unique interface between Ni and γ-Fe₂O₃ that efficiently catalyzes the cathodic hydrogen evolution reaction.

High hole mobilities in a polarization-induced two-dimensional hole gas at a gallium nitride/aluminium nitride interface can allow Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations of light and heavy holes to be observed in gallium nitride.

Here the authors identify nicotine-derived inhibitors of the SARS-CoV−2 main protease that outperform Paxlovid in cells and mice, remain effective against resistant variants, and show broad activity against multiple human coronaviruses.

Anion-exchange-membrane electrolysis needs durable carbon supports, yet native defects corrode under harsh operating conditions. Here, the authors report that oxide-hybridized carbon serves as a durable catalyst support while facilitating the supply of reactant hydroxide ions.

Metal-organic frameworks are generally considered to be inert catalysts for many electrochemical reactions, however this is not always the case. Here the authors fabricate an ultrathin nanosheet array of metal-organic frameworks exhibiting enhanced performance toward electrocatalytic water splitting.

Formation of tertiary C(sp³)-C bonds is a formidable challenge due to steric interactions and low barriers for isomerization of intermediates. Here, the authors show a Ni-catalyzed migratory 3,3-difluoroallylation of unactivated alkyl bromides at remote tertiary carbon centers.

Increasing the Ni content to replace Co can increase the capacity and sustainability of cathode for batteries but leads to performance degradation issues. Here the authors address the structural and oxygen instabilities of Ni-rich cathodes by doping with tellurium.

Hydrogen production from alkaline seawater requires efficient catalysts, but controlling interaction with intermediates is challenging. Here, the authors report an yttrium-doped NiMo-MoO2 catalyst that optimizes water dissociation and enables efficient seawater splitting at high current densities.

Some materials can display magnetic order despite having spin-singlet ground state on individual magnetic sites. This arises due to exchange interactions mixing excited crystal electric field states. Here, Gao et al study and example of such a system, Ni₂Mo₃O₈, and find that crystal electric field states in both the paramagnetic and antiferromagnetic states exhibit dispersive excitations.

Transition-metal single-atom catalysts display excellent activity per metal atom site, but suffer from low metal atom densities (typically less than 5 wt% or 1 at.%), which limits their overall catalytic performance. Now, the use of a graphene-quantum-dot primary support, later interweaved into a carbon matrix, has enabled the synthesis of single-atom catalysts with high transition-metal atom loadings of up to 40 wt% or 3.84 at.%.

Persistent synthesis challenges constrain the stabilization of single-atom lanthanide catalysts across many substrates. Using a method based on molten-nitrite chemistry, the atomic dispersion of lanthanide atoms on diverse substrates is achieved and exemplified by Dy₁/Pt for acidic hydrogen evolution.

Spin–orbit torque is used to control the magnetic exchange bias in a Pt/Co/IrMn trilayer.

Lampreys are jawless vertebrates that can offer unique insights into vertebrate evolution. Here they generate a comprehensive cell atlas of the lamprey, uncovering 70 distinct cell types across 14 tissues, and identify pancreas-like cells in the lamprey small intestine.

Development of efficient and affordable oxygen evolution catalysts is essential for large-scale electrolytic water splitting. Here, the authors report mesoporous nickel–iron composite nanosheets loaded on macroporous nickel foam substrates, and evaluate their electrocatalytic oxygen evolution in basic media.

Designing high performing low-cost nanomaterials for catalyzing hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) remains challenging. Here, the authors report a volcano-shape correlation between HER activity and cobalt atomic configuration in single-atom doped CoSe2-DETA (DETA = diethylenetriamine) nanobelts toward achieving high performance.

Rechargeable aluminium ion batteries are an emerging class of energy storage device. Here the authors reveal high-quality natural graphite as a promising cathode for Al-ion batteries, also identifying chloroaluminate anion intercalation in graphite by Raman spectroscopy.

A topochemical oxidation process is developed to exfoliate metal oxyhydroxides, in which active oxygen species and alkali cations modulate interlayer repulsion. The resulting Cs⁺-CoFeOOH nanosheets demonstrate exceptional electrocatalytic performance for the oxygen evolution reaction.

Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution efficiency is limited due to unfavorable carrier dynamics and thermodynamic performance. Here, the authors report an electric double-layer-mediated polarization field to improve carrier dynamics and optimize the thermodynamics by regulating the coordination of surface atoms.

The limited availability of efficient oxygen reduction reaction catalysts impedes the practical application of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. In this study, the catalytic activity of Pt-based high-entropy intermetallic is enhanced by regulating antisite defects.

Lithium metal offers high specific capacity but suffers from dendrite growth and poor cycling stability. Here, authors develop a 3D Li-Zn-Li3N/CNT composite combining ductile Li-Zn alloy and a mechanically robust Li3N-CNTs network, enabling thin, durable electrodes with uniform lithium deposition, demonstrating a pouch-cell with a specific energy of 553 Wh kg-1.

The cycling disordering–ordering transition of low-misfit superlattice nanoprecipitates in metallic materials continuously annihilates radiation defects via a short-range atom-reshuffling process, giving rise to high radiation tolerance.

Single-atomic impurities may induce novel quantum state, but they are unexplored in topological magnets. Here, the authors report spin-down polarized bound states which further interact with neighboring states to form spin-orbit split quantized orbitals in a topological magnet Co₃Sn₂S₂.

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

In this study, long-read RNA sequencing achieves accurate single-nucleotide polymorphism calling, haplotype phasing and allele-specific expression analysis.

Transition-metal-catalyzed nitrene strategies exhibit high efficacy for intermolecular N–H insertion, but nitrene-mediated N–N coupling under metal-free conditions has rarely been explored. Herein, the authors report the selective N–N coupling using sulfilimines as nitrene precursors.

Traditional approach to oxidation catalysts relies on metal/oxide supported peripheral interfacial oxygen activity. Here the authors show surface oxygenation of platinum-alloyed multicomponent nanoparticles, and reveals irregular oscillatory kinetics associated with the surface oxygenated sites.

The upscaling of kesterite photovoltaics is challenging and results in low performance. Xiang et al. tune the thiourea/metal precursor ratio to improve the morphology of the kesterite film, achieving 10.1% certified power conversion efficiency in 10.48-cm² modules.

Frequencies for motor kinematics are encoded by the cerebellum through population tuning of firing probabilities, which leads to cerebellar oscillations and corresponding motions.

The development of gold catalysis is restricted by its high redox potential, and the introduction of strong oxidants to overcome this is accompanied by poor functional group compatibility. Here electrochemical oxidation is used to control gold valence changes, showing excellent compatibility with a wide range of active functional groups and bio-additives.

Tandem electro-biocatalytic systems present a versatile platform for producing a variety of synthetic products using CO₂ as a starting material. Here direct ocean carbon capture is incorporated into an electrolysis scheme to produce formic acid from CO₂ dissolved in seawater that is subsequently converted to succinate in a bioreactor.

Developing green and delocalized routes for ammonia synthesis is highly important but still very challenging. Here the authors report an efficient ammonia synthesis process via nitrate reduction to ammonia on Fe single atom catalyst.

Enantioselective dicarbofunctionalization of tethered alkenes typically relies on facially selective arylmetalation as a key step. Here, a nickel-catalyzed reductive carboacylation of alkenes and alkyl iodides which features acylnickelation as the enantiodetermining step is reported.

A smartphone-based system, designed to induce a steady gaze in children using cartoon-like video stimuli, can identify visually impaired children across a wide range of ophthalmic disorders, based on analysis of gazing behaviors and facial features.

Histamine mediates allergic reactions, inflammation, wakefulness, gastric acid secretion and neurotransmission, among others. Here, the authors determine 9 cryo-EM structures of the 4 histamine receptors in complexes with four different G protein subtypes, with endogenous or synthetic agonists bound, revealing their distinct features.

Base lesions can be directly repaired by oxidative dealkylation catalysed by AlkB in bacteria and by ABH2/ABH3 in man. Several structures of AlkB and ABH2 bound to dsDNA are solved. These structures reveal why AlkB prefers ssDNA to dsDNA substrates, and how ABH2 differs structurally, to allow it to repair dsDNA.

Metastatic cancer cells rely on metabolic flexibility to survive. Here, the authors show that metastatic breast cancer cells use lactate for mitochondrial oxidation via the CD147/MCT1/LDHB complex to sustain stemness and promote metastasis.

Multi-principal element alloy (MPEA) 3D printing is challenging due to the tradeoff between achieving high-temperature and sufficient heating zone. Here, the authors report an ultrahigh-temperature melt printing method that can achieve rapid melting and uniform elemental mixing for MPEA fabrication.

Clinical trials of CD47 blocking antibody in human cancer patients have not yielded ideal results. Here the authors show that USP2 stabilizes CD47 through deubiquitination, whereas USP2 inhibition enhances macrophage phagocytosis, reprograms tumor microenvironment and synergizes with anti-PD-1 treatment.

This study establishes an efficient method for site-specific SUMOylation proteomics, achieving a comprehensive SUMOylome comprising over 2,200 SUMOylation sites, which could serve as a useful tool and valuable resource for future research in plants.