We report a chiral π-conjugated quinquethiophene–rhodanine derivative forming four distinct and isolatable supramolecular aggregates from a single enantiomer under identical chemical conditions.

Magnetic capture and process-oriented upcycling of PET nanoplastics enabled by mesocrystalline iron oxide nanoflowers

Rafael Herrera-Aquino, Fernanda Lyzeth Rivera, Carlos Díaz-Ufano, Lucía Gutiérrez, Sabino Veintemillas-Verdaguer, María del Puerto Morales*, Álvaro Gallo-Cordova*

High temperature Néel skyrmions in simple ferromagnets

Peng Wang, Rana Saha, Holger L. Meyerheim, Ke Gu, Hakan Deniz, David Eilmsteiner, Andrea Migliorini, Banabir Pal, Juan Rubio Zuazo, Eugenia Sebastiani-Tofano, Ilya Kostanovski, Abhay Kant Srivastava, Arthur Ernst & Stuart S. P. Parkin

Spin Injection Of Exciton–Polaritons With Halide Perovskites At Room Temperature

Elena Sendarrubias Arias-Camisón, Maksim Lednev, Jorge Cuadra, Raúl Gago, Luis Viña, Francisco José García Vidal, Johannes Feist, Ferry Prins, Carlos Antón Solanas

Mechanically Interlocked Double-Walled Covalent Organic Framework with Cucurbit[8]Uril-Stabilized Viologen Radical Dimers

Salma Abubakar; Bikash Garai; Nour Alkhatib; Rasha G. AbdulHalim; Thirumurugan Prakasam; Sudhir Sharma; Lydia Gkoura; Ribal Jabbour; Asif Equbal; Felipe Gándara; Jihan Dhainy; Devin Thrush; Claudia E. Avalos; Gobinda Das; Sharath Kandambeth; Na’il Saleh; Ramesh Jagannathan; Mark A. Olson; Mohamad El-Roz; Serdal Kirmizialtin * ; Mohamed Eddaoudi * ; Ali Trabolsi *

Journal American Chemical Society

This work establishes a generalizable strategy for integrating persistent radicals within COFs through macrocycle-assisted encapsulation and mechanical bonding, opening new avenues for the development of robust photoactive, redox-active, and spin-functional materials.

Adsorption-Driven Symmetry Lowering in Single Molecules Revealed by Ångstrom-Scale Tip-Enhanced Raman Imaging

Rodrigo Cezar de Campos Ferreira, Borja Cirera, Jiří Doležal, Álvaro Gallego de Roa, Amandeep Sagwal, Petr Kahan, Rubén Canales, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo*, Martin Švec*, Pablo Merino*

Journal of The American Chemical Society

The vibrational landscape of adsorbed molecules is central to understanding surface interactions at the atomic scale, influencing phenomena from catalysis to molecular electronics.

Photoinduced Enhancement of Chemical Shift Sensitivity to Local Vibrations

Ana Martínez Gutiérrez, Oliver Alexander, Pablo Estévez Alonso, Lorenzo Paoloni, Terry Mullins, André Al-Haddad, Thomas M. Baumann, Rebecca Boll, Christoph Bostedt, Simon Dold, Alberto De Fanis, Gianluca Geloni, Markus Ilchen, Iyas Ismail, Björn Lautenschlager, Tommaso Mazza, Dooshaye Moonshiram, Solène Oberli, Dawei Peng, Ralph Püttner, Svitozar Serkez, Marc Simon, Florian Trinter, Sergey Usenko, Michael Meyer, Jonathan P. Marangos, Jesús González-Vázquez, Daniel E. Rivas*, Antonio Picón*

Journal of the American Chemical Society

. This insight opens new avenues for exploring ultrafast dynamics and conical intersection pathways in more complex systems, from photostable DNA bases to light-harvesting materials.

The Coupling of Ferroelectric Polarization and Oxygen Vacancy Migration Enables Electrically Controlled Thermal Memories

Dídac Barneo, Miquel Royo, Rafael Ramos, Jesús Carrete, Hugo Romero-Bernad, Ricardo Jiménez, Víctor Leborán, César Magén, Noa Varela-Domínguez, Miguel Algueró, Riccardo Rurali, José A. Pardo, Francisco Rivadulla, Eric Langenberg

Advanced Materials

Domain Wall Rebounds Driven by Competing Entropic and Spin-Transfer Torques in Cylindrical Nanowires

Elias Saugar, Jorge Marqués-Marchán, Sara Catalano, Agustina Asenjo, Michael Foerster, Miguel Angel Niño, Manuel Vazquez, Fèlix Casanova, Arantxa Fraile Rodríguez, Rafael P. Del Real, Oksana Chubykalo-Fesenko*, Cristina Bran*

Advanced Functional Materials

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202525734

Hybrid Solar Cell/Triboelectric Nanogenerator Based on Stable Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks

Joab D. Guerrero, Susana Ramos-Terrón, Salvador R. G. Balestra, José M. Malagón, David Aparicio, Lucia Velasco, Asterios Charisiadis, Dooshaye Moonshiram, Margarita Darder, Pilar Aranda, Bernd Wicklein, Gustavo de Miguel, Javier Pérez-Carvajal*, Eva M. García-Frutos*

Advanced Functional Materials

$Images of the (a) FTO glass substrate (transparent) and the F-TpPa1 thin film deposited onto it. (b) AFM topological images of F-TpPa1, showing below the measured profile indicated by the dashed line for the determination of the thin film thickness. (c) FTIR spectra of TpPa1, F-TpPa1, and FTO. (d) Tauc plot of F-TpPa1. (e) GIWAXS of F-TpPa1 from 0 to 10q. (f) XRD diffraction patterns of F-TpPa1, and the simulation of the staggered and eclipsed disposition of the TpPa1 structure.$

Scalable Conformal Electronics Based on Roll-to-Roll Exfoliated van der Waals Semiconductors

Yigit Sozen*, Esteban Zamora-Amo, Juan J. Riquelme, Andres Castellanos-Gomez*

ACS Nano

Scalable Conformal Electronics Based on Roll-to-Roll Exfoliated van der Waals Semiconductors

Wafer-scale films of two-dimensional materials via roll-to-roll mechanical exfoliation

Yigit Sozen, Thomas Pucher, Bhagyanath Paliyottil Kesavan, Nuria Jiménez-Arévalo, Julia Hernandez-Ruiz , Zdenek Sofer, Carmen Munuera, Juan J. Riquelme, Andres Castellanos-Gomez*

Nano Materials Science

This work highlights the potential of high-throughput mechanical exfoliation as a cost-effective and reliable route for large-scale production of 2D material-based devices

Clay-polysaccharides as engineered nanoplatforms for cancer treatment

Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky, Celia Martín-Morales, Ana Barra, Cláudia Nunes, Paula Ferreira

Carbohydrate Polymers

Fig. 1. Representative structures of clay minerals discussed in this review: (a) kaolinite, (b) montmorillonite, (c) sepiolite, (d) halloysite and (e) LDH.

Single-shot parity readout of a minimal Kitaev chain

Nick van Loo, Francesco Zatelli, Gorm O. Steffensen, Bart Roovers, Guanzhong Wang, Thomas Van Caekenberghe, Alberto Bordin, David van Driel, Yining Zhang, Wietze D. Huisman, Ghada Badawy, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, Grzegorz P. Mazur, Ramón Aguado & Leo P. Kouwenhoven

Nature

Minimal Kitaev chain and parity measurement set-up.

Probing the molecular structure at graphite–water interfaces by correlating 3D-AFM and SHINERS

Lalith Krishna, Samanth Bonagiri, Diana M. Arvelo, Fujia Zhao, Jaehyeon Kim, Qian Ai, Shan Zhou, Kaustubh S. Panse, Ricardo Garcia* & Yingjie Zhang*

Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Schematic of the measurement setups.

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