NAT. CHEM.-STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF POROUS COORDINATION POLYMERS

Highly responsive nature of porous coordination polymer surfaces imaged by in situ atomic force microscopy

Nobuhiko Hosono, Aya Terashima, Shinpei Kusaka, Ryotaro Matsuda & Susumu Kitagawa
1.Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
2.Nobuhiko Hosono, Aya Terashima, Shinpei Kusaka, Ryotaro Matsuda & Susumu Kitagawa
Nature Chemistry volume 11, pages109–116 (2019)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0170-0
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Using liquid-phase atomic force microscopy, it was made possible to directly observe structural transformations at the crystal-solvent interface of a porous coordination polymers.

Image: Images are produced by Nobuhiko Hosono (Kyoto University) and Demin Liu (MolGraphics). Cover Design: Tulsi Voralia.

Science-Single-stranded DNA and RNA origami

Single-stranded DNA and RNA origami

Dongran Han1,2,*, Xiaodong Qi3,4,*, Cameron Myhrvold1,2, Bei Wang2,5, Mingjie Dai1,2, Shuoxing Jiang3,4, Maxwell Bates6, Yan Liu3,4, Byoungkwon An6,†, Fei Zhang3,4,†, Hao Yan3,4,†, Peng Yin1,2,†
1.Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
2.Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
3.Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics Biodesign Institute, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
4.School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
5.Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.
6.BioNano Research Group, Autodesk Life Sciences, Pier 9, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA.

Science  15 Dec 2017:
Vol. 358, Issue 6369, eaao2648
DOI: 10.1126/science.aao2648
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Unimolecular folding of single-stranded DNA and RNA origami into user-specified shapes.

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Chem- Artificial Photosynthesis

Transition-Metal Single Atoms in a Graphene Shell as Active Centers for Highly Efficient Artificial Photosynthesis

Kun Jiang, Samira Siahrostami, Austin J. Akey, Yanbin Li, Zhiyi Lu, Judith Lattimer, Yongfeng Hu, Chris Stokes, Mahesh Gangishetty, Guangxu Chen, Yawei Zhou, Winfield Hill, Wen-Bin Cai, David Bell, Karen Chan, Jens K. Nørskov, Yi Cui, Haotian Wang
1.Rowland Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2017.09.014
Received: August 1, 2017; Received in revised form: September 15, 2017; Accepted: September 26, 2017; Published: October 19, 2017 © 2017 Elsevier Inc.

Single Ni atoms coordinated in graphene served as active centers for aqueous CO2 reduction to CO with high faradic effciencies over 90% under significant currents up to ~60 mA/mg.

Science-A cargo-sorting DNA robot

A cargo-sorting DNA robot

Anupama J. Thubagere1, Wei Li1, Robert F. Johnson1, Zibo Chen1, Shayan Doroudi2, Yae Lim Lee3, Gregory Izatt2,4, Sarah Wittman2, Niranjan Srinivas4, Damien Woods2,*, Erik Winfree1,2,4, Lulu Qian1,2,†
1. Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
2. Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
3. Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
4. Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
DOI: 10.1126/science.aan6558
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Single-stranded DNA robots with three modular functional domains were designed to move over the surface of a DNA origami sheet and sort molecular cargoes with no additional power input.

Adv. Funct. Mater-Micromotors

Bioinspired Spiky Micromotors Based on Sporopollenin Exine Capsules

Hong Wang1, Michael G. Potroz2, Joshua A. Jackman2, Bahareh Khezri1, Tijana Marić1, Nam-Joon Cho2,3 and Martin Pumera1,*
1. Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
2. School of Materials Science and Engineering and Centre for Biomimetic Sensor Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
3. School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201702338
© 2017 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

A bioinspired spiky micromotor was designed based on sporopollenin exine capsules where bubble generated on the surface propels the capsules to transport cargo or decontaminate heavy metals.

Nature Photonics-Phase-locked laser arrays

Phase-locked laser arrays through global antenna mutual coupling

Tsung-Yu Kao, John L. Reno& Qing Hu
1.Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Tsung-Yu Kao &Qing Hu
2.LongWave Photonics LLC, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
Tsung-Yu Kao
3.Sandia National Laboratories, Center of Integrated Nanotechnologies, MS 1303, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-130, USA
John L. Reno
DOI:10.1038/nphoton.2016.104
© 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved.

A new approach to laser design utilizing a conceptually novel phase-locking mechanism based on "antenna mutual coupling" where different laser elements interact with each other through far-field radiations with definite phase relations.

IMAGE: D. LIU, T.-Y. KAO AND Q. HU

COVER DESIGN: BETHANY VUKOMANOVIC

NATURE ENERGY-SOLID OXYGEN BATTERY

ANION-REDOX NANOLITHIA CATHODES FOR LI-ION BATTERIES

Zhi Zhu, Akihiro Kushima, Zongyou Yin, Lu Qi, Khalil Amine, Jun Lu & Ju Li
1.Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Zhi Zhu, Akihiro Kushima, Zongyou Yin & Ju Li
2.Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Zhi Zhu, Akihiro Kushima, Zongyou Yin & Ju Li
3.College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Lu Qi
4.Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
Khalil Amine & Jun Lu
DOI:10.1038/nenergy.2016.111
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A cobalt oxide confined nanolithia cathode allows charge and discharge without generating any gas molecules. This new material is also self-protected from overcharging by the cycling reaction of self-generated radical species.

Chem. Mater.-DNA Nanofabrication

Bottom-up Nanofabrication Using DNA Nanostructures

Zhenbo Peng‡§ and Haitao Liu*§
‡ Chemical Engineering College, Ningbo Polytechnic, 1069 Xinda Road, Economical & Technical Development Zone, Ningbo 315800, P. R. China
§ Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
Chem. Mater., 2016, 28 (4), pp 1012–1021
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b04218
Publication Date (Web): January 06, 2016
Copyright © 2016 American Chemical Society
In this Perspective,  the authors highlighted the most recent progresses in DNA nanotechnology, including the fabrication of DNA nanostructures, DNA-based assembly of molecules and nanomaterials, and DNA-based nanofabrication and nanolithography.

Cell Systems-Modular Viral Scaffolds for Targeted Bacterial Population Editing

Engineering Modular Viral Scaffolds for Targeted Bacterial Population Editing

Hiroki Ando1, Sebastien Lemire1, Diana P. Pires1,2, Timothy K. Lu1
1 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Biological Engineering, Synthetic Biology Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
2 Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
Cell Systems, Volume 1, Issue 3, 23 September 2015, Pages 187–196
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2015.08.013
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A synthetic biology strategy to modulate phage host ranges by engineering phage genomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This innovative approach could potentially accelerate phage biology studies and enable new technologies for bacterial population editing.