In-air fast response and high speed jumping and rolling of a light-driven hydrogel actuator.

abstract：:Temporal cloaks have aroused tremendous research interest in both optical physics and optical communications, unfolding a distinct approach to conceal temporal events from an interrogating optical field. The state-of-the-art temporal cloaks exhibit picosecond-scale and static cloaking window, owing to significantly li...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhou F,Yan S,Zhou H,Wang X,Qiu H,Dong J,Zhou L,Ding Y,Qiu CW,Zhang X

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is a heterogeneous disease with features that vary by ethnicity. A systematic characterization of the genomic landscape of Chinese ccRCC is lacking, and features of ccRCC associated with tumor thrombus (ccRCC-TT) remain poorly understood. Here, we applied whole-exome sequencing ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang XM,Lu Y,Song YM,Dong J,Li RY,Wang GL,Wang X,Zhang SD,Dong ZH,Lu M,Wang SY,Ge LY,Luo GD,Ma RZ,George Rozen S,Bai F,Wu D,Ma LL

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies have shown that obesity risk is heritable and that, of the many common variants now associated with body mass index, those in an intron of the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene have the largest effect. The size of the UK Biobank, and its joint measurement of genetic, anthropometric and lifesty...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Young AI,Wauthier F,Donnelly P

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombocytosis is present in more than 30% of patients with solid malignancies and correlates with worsened patient survival. Tumor cell interaction with various cellular components of the tumor microenvironment including platelets is crucial for tumor growth and metastasis. Although it is known that platelets can inf...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Haemmerle M,Taylor ML,Gutschner T,Pradeep S,Cho MS,Sheng J,Lyons YM,Nagaraja AS,Dood RL,Wen Y,Mangala LS,Hansen JM,Rupaimoole R,Gharpure KM,Rodriguez-Aguayo C,Yim SY,Lee JS,Ivan C,Hu W,Lopez-Berestein G,Wong ST,

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:1T-MoS2 and single-atom modified analogues represent a highly promising class of low-cost catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, the role of single atoms, either as active species or promoters, remains vague despite its essentiality toward more efficient HER. In this work, we report the unambiguous ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Pattengale B,Huang Y,Yan X,Yang S,Younan S,Hu W,Li Z,Lee S,Pan X,Gu J,Huang J

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of cell type composition in disease relevant tissues is an important step towards the identification of cellular targets of disease. We present MuSiC, a method that utilizes cell-type specific gene expression from single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data to characterize cell type compositions from bulk RNA-...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wang X,Park J,Susztak K,Zhang NR,Li M

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalamic inputs of cells in sensory cortices are outnumbered by local connections. Thus, it was suggested that robust sensory response in layer 4 emerges due to synchronized thalamic activity. To investigate the role of both inputs in the generation of correlated cortical activities, we isolated the thalamic excitator...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Cohen-Kashi Malina K,Mohar B,Rappaport AN,Lampl I

更新日期：2016-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal resolution of ultrafast electron diffraction and microscopy experiments is currently limited by the available experimental techniques for the generation and characterization of electron bunches with single femtosecond or attosecond durations. Here, we present proof of principle experiments of an optical g...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Kozák M,McNeur J,Leedle KJ,Deng H,Schönenberger N,Ruehl A,Hartl I,Harris JS,Byer RL,Hommelhoff P

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient and low-cost electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction are essential components of renewable energy technologies, such as solar fuel synthesis and providing a hydrogen source for powering fuel cells. Here we report that the nitrogen-doped carbon materials function as the efficient oxygen evolution e...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Zhao Y,Nakamura R,Kamiya K,Nakanishi S,Hashimoto K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient and reliable on-chip optical amplifiers and light sources would enable versatile integration of various active functionalities on the silicon platform. Although lasing on silicon has been demonstrated with semiconductors by using methods such as wafer bonding or molecular beam epitaxy, cost-effective mass pr...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Rönn J,Zhang W,Autere A,Leroux X,Pakarinen L,Alonso-Ramos C,Säynätjoki A,Lipsanen H,Vivien L,Cassan E,Sun Z

更新日期：2019-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic skyrmion, a topologically stable spin-swirling object, can host emergent electromagnetism, as exemplified by the topological Hall effect and electric-current-driven skyrmion motion. To achieve efficient manipulation of nano-sized functional spin textures, it is imperative to exploit the resonant motion of sky...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Okamura Y,Kagawa F,Mochizuki M,Kubota M,Seki S,Ishiwata S,Kawasaki M,Onose Y,Tokura Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical properties of multi-orbital materials depend not only on the strength of the effective interactions among the valence electrons but also on their type. Strong correlations are caused by either Mott physics that captures the Coulomb repulsion among charges, or Hund physics that aligns the spins in different or...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Deng X,Stadler KM,Haule K,Weichselbaum A,von Delft J,Kotliar G

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility of measuring binding of small-molecule drugs to desired targets in live cells could provide a better understanding of drug action. However, current approaches mostly yield static data, require lysis or rely on indirect assays and thus often provide an incomplete understanding of drug action. Here, we p...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Dubach JM,Vinegoni C,Mazitschek R,Fumene Feruglio P,Cameron LA,Weissleder R

更新日期：2014-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionic liquids (ILs) are emerging as superior solvents for numerous industrial applications, including the pretreatment of biomass for the microbial production of biofuels. However, some of the most effective ILs used to solubilize cellulose inhibit microbial growth, decreasing efficiency in the overall process. Here w...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Ruegg TL,Kim EM,Simmons BA,Keasling JD,Singer SW,Lee TS,Thelen MP

更新日期：2014-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron transport in two-dimensional conducting materials such as graphene, with dominant electron-electron interaction, exhibits unusual vortex flow that leads to a nonlocal current-field relation (negative resistance), distinct from the classical Ohm's law. The transport behavior of these materials is best describe...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mayzel J,Steinberg V,Varshney A

更新日期：2019-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Manipulation of proteins by chemical modification is a powerful way to decipher their function. However, most ribosome-dependent and semi-synthetic methods have limitations in the number and type of modifications that can be introduced, especially in live cells. Here, we present an approach to incorporate single or mu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Khoo KK,Galleano I,Gasparri F,Wieneke R,Harms H,Poulsen MH,Chua HC,Wulf M,Tampé R,Pless SA

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin/IGF-1 signalling pathway is a key regulator of metabolism and the rate of ageing. We previously documented that systemic inactivation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) p110α, the principal PI3K isoform that positively regulates insulin signalling, results in a beneficial metabolic effect in aged mice. He...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Araiz C,Yan A,Bettedi L,Samuelson I,Virtue S,McGavigan AK,Dani C,Vidal-Puig A,Foukas LC

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of antihydrogen are expected to be identical to those of hydrogen, and any differences would constitute a profound challenge to the fundamental theories of physics. The most commonly discussed antiatom-based tests of these theories are searches for antihydrogen-hydrogen spectral differences (tests of CP...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Amole C,Ashkezari MD,Baquero-Ruiz M,Bertsche W,Butler E,Capra A,Cesar CL,Charlton M,Eriksson S,Fajans J,Friesen T,Fujiwara MC,Gill DR,Gutierrez A,Hangst JS,Hardy WN,Hayden ME,Isaac CA,Jonsell S,Kurchaninov L,Littl

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the fundamental design paradigms in organic photovoltaic device engineering is based on the idea that charge separation is an extrinsically driven process requiring an interface for exciton fission. This idea has driven an enormous materials science engineering effort focused on construction of domain sizes com...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Labastide JA,Thompson HB,Marques SR,Colella NS,Briseno AL,Barnes MD

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo electronic monitoring systems are promising technology to obtain biosignals with high spatiotemporal resolution and sensitivity. Here we demonstrate the fabrication of a biocompatible highly conductive gel composite comprising multi-walled carbon nanotube-dispersed sheet with an aqueous hydrogel. This gel comp...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sekitani T,Yokota T,Kuribara K,Kaltenbrunner M,Fukushima T,Inoue Y,Sekino M,Isoyama T,Abe Y,Onodera H,Someya T

更新日期：2016-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Photocatalytic formation of hydrocarbons using solar energy via artificial photosynthesis is a highly desirable renewable-energy source for replacing conventional fossil fuels. Using an L-cysteine-based hydrothermal process, here we synthesize a carbon-doped SnS2 (SnS2-C) metal dichalcogenide nanostructure, which exhi...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Shown I,Samireddi S,Chang YC,Putikam R,Chang PH,Sabbah A,Fu FY,Chen WF,Wu CI,Yu TY,Chung PW,Lin MC,Chen LC,Chen KH

更新日期：2018-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:While main group elements have four valence orbitals accessible for bonding, quadruple bonding to main group elements is extremely rare. Here we report that main group element boron is able to form quadruple bonding interactions with iron in the BFe(CO)3- anion complex, which has been revealed by quantum chemical inve...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Chi C,Wang JQ,Hu HS,Zhang YY,Li WL,Meng L,Luo M,Zhou M,Li J

更新日期：2019-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The dual role played by symmetry in many-body physics manifests itself through two fundamental mechanisms: spontaneous symmetry breaking and topological symmetry protection. These two concepts, ubiquitous in both condensed matter and high energy physics, have been applied successfully in the last decades to unravel a ...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： González-Cuadra D,Bermudez A,Grzybowski PR,Lewenstein M,Dauphin A

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between metal nanoparticles and support materials can strongly influence the performance of catalysts. In particular, reducible oxidic supports can form suboxides that can decorate metal nanoparticles and enhance catalytic performance or block active sites. Therefore, tuning this metal-support interaction...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Hernández Mejía C,van Deelen TW,de Jong KP

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:High strength and high ductility are often mutually exclusive properties for structural metallic materials. This is particularly important for aluminum (Al)-based alloys which are widely commercially employed. Here, we introduce a hierarchical nanostructured Al alloy with a structure of Al nanograins surrounded by nan...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Wu G,Liu C,Sun L,Wang Q,Sun B,Han B,Kai JJ,Luan J,Liu CT,Cao K,Lu Y,Cheng L,Lu J

更新日期：2019-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Invariant natural killer T cells have a distinct developmental pathway from conventional αβ T cells. Here we demonstrate that the transcriptional repressor NKAP is required for invariant natural killer T cell but not conventional T cell development. In CD4-cre NKAP conditional knockout mice, invariant natural killer T...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Thapa P,Das J,McWilliams D,Shapiro M,Sundsbak R,Nelson-Holte M,Tangen S,Anderson J,Desiderio S,Hiebert S,Sant'angelo DB,Shapiro VS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imaging of nuclear structures within intact eukaryotic nuclei is imperative to understand the effect of chromatin folding on genome function. Recent developments of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy techniques combine high specificity, sensitivity, and less-invasive sample preparation procedures with the sub-di...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Sarmento MJ,Oneto M,Pelicci S,Pesce L,Scipioni L,Faretta M,Furia L,Dellino GI,Pelicci PG,Bianchini P,Diaspro A,Lanzanò L

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase acid-like 3b (SMPDL3b) is a lipid raft enzyme that regulates plasma membrane (PM) fluidity. Here we report that SMPDL3b excess, as observed in podocytes in diabetic kidney disease (DKD), impairs insulin receptor isoform B-dependent pro-survival insulin signaling by interfering with insu...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Mitrofanova A,Mallela SK,Ducasa GM,Yoo TH,Rosenfeld-Gur E,Zelnik ID,Molina J,Varona Santos J,Ge M,Sloan A,Kim JJ,Pedigo C,Bryn J,Volosenco I,Faul C,Zeidan YH,Garcia Hernandez C,Mendez AJ,Leibiger I,Burke GW,Futerm

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokinetic abscission, the terminal step of cell division, crucially depends on the local constriction of ESCRT-III helices after cytoskeleton disassembly. While the microtubules of the intercellular bridge are cut by the ESCRT-associated enzyme Spastin, the mechanism that clears F-actin at the abscission site is unk...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Frémont S,Hammich H,Bai J,Wioland H,Klinkert K,Rocancourt M,Kikuti C,Stroebel D,Romet-Lemonne G,Pylypenko O,Houdusse A,Echard A

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgen-ablation therapies, which are the standard treatment for metastatic prostate cancer, invariably lead to acquired resistance. Hence, a systematic identification of additional drivers may provide useful insights into the development of effective therapies. Numerous microRNAs that are critical for metastasis are...

journal_title：Nature communications

authors： Xue M,Liu H,Zhang L,Chang H,Liu Y,Du S,Yang Y,Wang P

更新日期：2017-04-11 00:00:00