Volume 11, Issue 4, April 2024

Recently, Tie Jun Cui and team members introduced innovative macroscopic and statistical models for digital coding metasurfaces, bridging the digital and electromagnetic realms and quantifying information loss for enhanced wireless communication system design. This is a highlight of it.

This perspective defines and explores an innovative waste heat harvesting strategy, thermoelectrocatalysis (TECatal), emphasizing materials design and potential applications in clean energy, environmental, and biomedical technologies.

Inspired by human language, machine language is a novel discrete representation learned from visual data only through playing the speak, guess, and draw game.

A real spatial continuous modeling of climate and carbon cycle is developed, and tested for early Cenozoic from 60 Ma to 40 Ma.

High-bandwidth Radio-frequency reflectometry was used to detect individual photoionisation events, enabling fast detection of single optical centers in solids.

Adsorption of nanoparticles in a polymer nanopore causes frequency-dependent memory effects by voltage induced elastic strain. The successful emulating of adaptive learning opens a new approach for neuromorphic computing.

This paper presents the status, controls, and impacts of acid deposition in China, and explores a path for acid deposition mitigation with the simultaneous goals of air quality improvement and carbon reduction in the future.

Robust geological framework and accurate geochronology reveal three stages of Nb mineralization at Bayan Obo, and highlight the critical role of multi-stage process for the formation of world-class ore deposits.

Typhoons can substantially elevate atmospheric bromine levels by enhancing sea-salt aerosol emissions, resulting in increased reactive bromine activation and ozone depletion. This underscores the previously underestimated impact of typhoon- and pollution-mediated reactive bromine chemistry on coastal air quality and atmospheric oxidation capacity.

PIANO: a new operator learning framework that deciphers and incorporates invariants from the PDE series via self-supervised learning and attention technique, achieving superior performance in scenarios with various physical mechanisms.

A low-valent iron cluster with icosahedral [Fe@Fe₁₂]¹⁶⁺ core and multicenter iron-iron bonding has been synthetically achieved and computationally studied.

Surface active and durable IrOx is controlled by the electronic interaction between Au and Ir, which can realize a balance for binding of different intermediates and accelerate the water splitting kinetics.

This work reveals a general rule for measuring and describing the bias distribution in photoelectrochemical overall reaction cells, which inspires the rational design for high-performance unbiased photoelectrochemical cells in diversified practical scenarios.

A new structural descriptor, the ring orientation index, is proposed as a governing factor for phase transitions in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), facilitating the design of ZIF glasses for various applications.

A phase diagram for amorphous carbons was plotted in the sp³/sp² versus density plane, where counterintuitive discontinuity originates from inherent differences in topological microstructures, further guiding us to discover various phase transitions.

Negative enthalpy alloys act as a new concept and route for introducing various degree of local chemical ordering heterostructures, leading to superb synergy of strength and ductility.

By developing an integrated ultra-high vacuum interconnect system with surface-sensitive detection technology, the dynamic evolution of perovskite surfaces under external energy stimulation has been deciphered. This encompasses insights into chemical degradation pathways, crystal, and electronic structure evolution, paving the way for designing and synthesizing highly stable halide perovskite materials.

Single-crystal-like mesoporous Li2TiSiO5 is synthesized via soft micelle directed self-assembly strategy, which enables the ultrafast Li+ diffusion and storage for safe lithium ion batteries.

An injectable lymph node-biomimetic scaffold that gathered the function of loading, delivery, activation and expansion of chimeric antigen receptor T cells was developed to boost anti-solid tumor treatment.

An Intracellular ATP Sequestration (IAS) system was designed for targeted therapy of bladder cancer by induction of mitochondriopathy-like damages.

A new concept that developing an engineered inorganic biomaterials/neural stem cells (NSCs)-based neural platform to resolve the dilemma of multiple tissue regeneration with functions recovery in regenerative medicine is proposed.

Urea-containing derivatives of tirapazamine exhibited enhanced hypoxic cytotoxicity while preserving hypoxic selectivity, and its nanodrug with fibrin-targeting ability achieved effective tumor suppression by combining treatment with a vascular disrupting agent.

A self-activated on-demand antibacterial hydrogel based on bacterial infection microenvironment response is proposed for remodeling the regenerative microenvironment of infected motion wounds and accelerating wound healing.

This paper describes the controllable synthesis of two isomeric conjugated small molecules in an archiral environment and their wide-temperature-range proton storage behaviors, and confirms the important role of steric hindrance in determining small-molecule electrochemical reactivity.

High-temperature shock (HTS) technique, as a non-equilibrium synthesis strategy, offers significant potential for the rational design and fabrication of high-quality metastable materials in an ultrafast, scalable, controllable, and eco-friendly way.