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Electrified vapour deposition at ultrahigh temperature and atmospheric pressure for nanomaterials synthesis

Vapour-phase methods are promising for nanomaterial synthesis but the vaporization of different precursors for the synthesis of a broad nanomaterial space is challenging. Here electrified vapour deposition generates ultrahigh-temperature, high-flux atomic vapour at atmospheric pressure to rapidly vaporize diverse precursors, enabling the synthesis of multi-elemental nanomaterials with uniform compositions and tunable structures.

Xizheng Wang
Ning Liu
Liangbing Hu
Research05 Nov 2025
Nature Synthesis

Volume: 5, P: 14-26
Structure-based design of potent and selective inhibitors targeting RIPK3 for eliminating on-target toxicity in vitro

Here the authors described the structure-based design of novel, selective RIPK3 inhibitors that do not induce on-target apoptosis by occupying a unique hydrophobic site and locking RIPK3 into an inactive conformation.

Haixia Su
Guofeng Chen
Yechun Xu
ResearchOpen Access08 May 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-15
De novo design of protein condensation inhibitors by targeting an allosteric site of cGAS

In this work, authors design novel protein condensation inhibitors (PCIs) targeting an allosteric site of cGAS, blocking DNA interactions and phase separation to suppress immune activation, and demonstrate therapeutic potential in inflammatory disease models.

Wenfeng Zhao
Guofeng Chen
Yechun Xu
ResearchOpen Access03 Jun 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-20
Human expansion into Asian highlands in the 21st Century and its effects

Most of the intensive human activities usually occur in lowlands. Here the authors report that human activity expansions also were widely distributed in Asian highlands in the 21st century and held dual effects, which provides new insights for regional human activity expansions.

Chao Yang
Huizeng Liu
Guofeng Wu
ResearchOpen Access24 Aug 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-12
Machine learning-enhanced high-resolution exposure assessment of ultrafine particles

This study develops a machine learning framework for national-scale ultrafine particle (UFP) exposure assessment in Switzerland, revealing 20% of the population faces high exposure levels, with significant implications for future UFP standards

Yudie Jianyao
Hongyong Yuan
Xiaole Zhang
ResearchOpen Access31 Jan 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-15
Highly efficient decomposition of ammonia using high-entropy alloy catalysts

Alloys are important materials for catalysis but are usually limited by miscibility gaps present in their phase diagrams. Here the authors break this limitation by developing high-entropy alloy catalysts made of five earth-abundant elements and demonstrate great catalytic enhancements for ammonia decomposition.

Pengfei Xie
Yonggang Yao
Chao Wang
ResearchOpen Access05 Sept 2019
Nature Communications

Volume: 10, P: 1-12
Denary oxide nanoparticles as highly stable catalysts for methane combustion

Multi-element oxide catalysts can feature superior properties compared with their single-element analogues but obtaining such complex structures remains a challenge. Here, a method is reported to access single-phase denary nanoparticles as stable and efficient catalysts for the combustion of methane.

Tangyuan Li
Yonggang Yao
Liangbing Hu
Research11 Jan 2021
Nature Catalysis

Volume: 4, P: 62-70
A positively tuned voltage indicator for extended electrical recordings in the brain

The ASAP4 family of genetically encoded voltage indicators allows recording of action potentials and subthreshold activity with either one- or two-photon microscopy over extended periods of time.

S. Wenceslao Evans
Dong-Qing Shi
Michael Z. Lin
Research06 Jul 2023
Nature Methods

Volume: 20, P: 1104-1113
Atomically dispersed manganese catalysts for oxygen reduction in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells

Platinum group metal- and iron-free catalysts are highly desirable for the oxygen reduction reaction in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. Now, Wu and co-workers show a carbon catalyst with atomically dispersed single Mn sites as an efficient catalyst with enhanced stability in acidic media.

Jiazhan Li
Mengjie Chen
Gang Wu
Research29 Oct 2018
Nature Catalysis

Volume: 1, P: 935-945
Bivalence Mn₅O₈ with hydroxylated interphase for high-voltage aqueous sodium-ion storage

Rechargeable aqueous electrochemical energy storage is a promising technology but suffers from a narrow potential window. Here the authors report a surface hydroxylated Mn₅O₈pseudocapacitor electrode with bivalence structure that expands the potential window to deliver high energy and power performance.

Xiaoqiang Shan
Daniel S. Charles
Xiaowei Teng
ResearchOpen Access15 Nov 2016
Nature Communications

Volume: 7, P: 1-8
Impacts of planting structure adjustment on water saving in the Shiyang River Basin of Arid Region

Junju Zhou
Yanni Luo
Guofeng Zhu
ResearchOpen Access28 Dec 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-17
Tuning the thermal activation atmosphere breaks the activity–stability trade-off of Fe–N–C oxygen reduction fuel cell catalysts

Fe–N–C catalysts are a promising alternative to precious metals in fuel cell cathodes, but they suffer from durability issues. Now, a preparation method is reported that allows increasing the active site density while also improving durability.

Yachao Zeng
Chenzhao Li
Gang Wu
Research05 Dec 2023
Nature Catalysis

Volume: 6, P: 1215-1227
Dislocation nucleation facilitated by atomic segregation

In situ transmission electron microscopy combined with theory modelling reveals that surface segregation in CuAu solid solution generates misfit dislocations, providing atomistic mechanisms of dislocation nucleation and dynamics at heterointerfaces.

Lianfeng Zou
Chaoming Yang
Guangwen Zhou
Research27 Nov 2017
Nature Materials

Volume: 17, P: 56-63
A monolithically integrated near-infrared imager with crystallization- and oxidation-modulated tin-lead perovskites

A monolithically integrated near-infrared imager is achieved with the crystallization- and oxidation-modulated tin-lead perovskites.

Zhichun Yang
Jingjing Liu
Suotang Jia
ResearchOpen Access04 Sept 2025
Light: Science & Applications

Volume: 14, P: 1-13
Versatile bimetallic lanthanide metal-organic frameworks for tunable emission and efficient fluorescence sensing

Developing versatile luminescent platforms to distinguish metal ions in water, and volatile organic compounds is challenging. Here, a film containing bimetallic lanthanide metal-organic frameworks selectively recognize aqueous ferric ions within seconds and styrene vapor within minutes.

Yan Su
Junhong Yu
Yanli Zhao
ResearchOpen Access05 Apr 2018
Communications Chemistry

Volume: 1, P: 1-13

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