Sperm cells are attractive as propulsion sources or as functional components in robotic microswimmers to realize complex tasks in the body.
Advanced Materials
Mimicking Wrinkly Fingers: Toward Creating Smart Surfaces
Inspired by human fingers after prolonged exposure to water, moisture responsive wrinkling surfaces are developed.
Photoswitchable Sn-cytochrome c Solid-State Devices
Sn-cytochrome c (cyt c) protein layers can be used as efficient photodetectors when integrated into large-area solid-state junctions.
The Best of Two Cells: Hybrid Membrane Coatings
A new hybrid nanomaterial combines membranes from multiple cell types, enabling the fabrication of membrane-coated nanoparticles with an increased number of functionalities.
A Golden Guide to Brain Surgery
Taking the headache out of brain surgery: these gold nanoparticles cross the blood–brain barrier and report when they hit tumour tissue.
Nitrogen Defects in 2D Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Water Splitting
A very simple and general method for introducing nitrogen defects into the 2D structure of graphitic carbon nitride.
Blooming Knit Flowers
Knitted soft morphing flowers—lilies, daffodils, gamopetalous and calla flowers—are fabricated using thermally responsive smart fibres.
Stronger Magnets with Smaller Amounts of Rare Earth Metals
An exciting new strategy and direction in the quest for stronger permanent-magnet materials with fewer critical elements.
Transition-Metal Perovskite Chalcogenides (TMPCs): A New Class of Versatile Optoelectronic Semiconductors
Transition metal perovskite chalcogenides are a new class of versatile semiconductors with high absorption coefficient and luminescence efficiency.
Monolayer PbS: A Novel Topological Dual-Valley Material
A PbS monolayer is demonstrated to be a novel platform for topological, valleytronic, and optical phenomena.
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