Chirag Garg, Panagiotis Ch. Filippou, Ikhtiar, Yari Ferrante, See-Hun Yang, Brian Hughes, Charles T. Rettner, Timothy Phung, Sergey Faleev, Teya Topuria, Mahesh G. Samant, Jaewoo Jeong, Stuart S. P. Parkin
{"title":"Ferrimagnetic Heusler tunnel junctions with fast spin-transfer torque switching enabled by low magnetization","authors":"Chirag Garg, Panagiotis Ch. Filippou, Ikhtiar, Yari Ferrante, See-Hun Yang, Brian Hughes, Charles T. Rettner, Timothy Phung, Sergey Faleev, Teya Topuria, Mahesh G. Samant, Jaewoo Jeong, Stuart S. P. Parkin","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01827-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01827-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Magnetic random-access memory that uses magnetic tunnel junction memory cells is a high-performance, non-volatile memory technology that goes beyond traditional charge-based memories. Today, its speed is limited by the high magnetization of the memory storage layer. Here we prepare magnetic tunnel junction memory devices with a low magnetization ferrimagnetic Heusler alloy Mn<sub>3</sub>Ge as the memory storage layer on technologically relevant amorphous substrates using a combination of a nitride seed layer and a chemical templating layer. We switch the magnetic state of the storage layer with nanosecond long write pulses at a reliable write error rate of 10<sup>−7</sup> and detect a tunnelling magnetoresistance of 87% at ambient temperature. These results provide a strategy towards lower write switching currents using ferrimagnetic Heusler materials and, therefore, to the scaling of high-performance magnetic random-access memories beyond those nodes possible with ferromagnetic memory layers.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anirudh Sivakumar, Hathaichanok Phuengkham, Hitha Rajesh, Quoc D. Mac, Leonard C. Rogers, Aaron D. Silva Trenkle, Swapnil Subhash Bawage, Robert Hincapie, Zhonghan Li, Sofia Vainikos, Inho Lee, Min Xue, Peng Qiu, M. G. Finn, Gabriel A. Kwong
{"title":"AND-gated protease-activated nanosensors for programmable detection of anti-tumour immunity","authors":"Anirudh Sivakumar, Hathaichanok Phuengkham, Hitha Rajesh, Quoc D. Mac, Leonard C. Rogers, Aaron D. Silva Trenkle, Swapnil Subhash Bawage, Robert Hincapie, Zhonghan Li, Sofia Vainikos, Inho Lee, Min Xue, Peng Qiu, M. G. Finn, Gabriel A. Kwong","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01834-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01834-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The forward design of biosensors that implement Boolean logic to improve detection precision primarily relies on programming genetic components to control transcriptional responses. However, cell- and gene-free nanomaterials programmed with logical functions may present lower barriers for clinical translation. Here we report the design of activity-based nanosensors that implement AND-gate logic without genetic parts via bi-labile cyclic peptides. These actuate by releasing a reporter if and only if cleaved by a specific pair of proteases. AND-gated nanosensors that detect the concomitant activity of the granzyme B protease secreted by CD8 T cells and matrix metalloproteinases overexpressed by cancer cells identify the unique condition of cytotoxic T cell killing of tumour cells. In preclinical mouse models, AND-gated nanosensors discriminate tumours that are responsive to immune checkpoint blockade therapy from <i>B2m</i><sup>–/–</sup> tumours that are resistant to it, minimize signals from tissues without co-localized protease expression including the lungs during acute influenza infection, and release a reporter locally in tissue or distally in the urine for facile detection.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wei-Qiang Huang, Wei You, Ya-Qi Zhu, Fan Gao, Zhi-Zhi Wu, Guang Chen, Jun Xiao, Qi Shao, Long-Hai Wang, Xuan Nie, Ze Zhang, Chun-Yan Hong, Ye-Zi You
{"title":"Autophagosomes coated in situ with nanodots act as personalized cancer vaccines","authors":"Wei-Qiang Huang, Wei You, Ya-Qi Zhu, Fan Gao, Zhi-Zhi Wu, Guang Chen, Jun Xiao, Qi Shao, Long-Hai Wang, Xuan Nie, Ze Zhang, Chun-Yan Hong, Ye-Zi You","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01826-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01826-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Autophagosome cancer vaccines can promote cross-presentation of multiple tumour antigens and induce cross-reactive T cell responses. However, so far, there is no effective method for obtaining a highly immunogenic autophagosomal cancer vaccine because autophagosomes, once formed, quickly fuse with lysosomes and cannot easily escape from cells. Here we report a functional Ti<sub>2</sub>NX nanodot that caps the autophagosome membrane lipid phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate, blocking the fusion of autophagosomes with lysosomes and producing stable nanodot-coated autophagosomes in tumours. The formed nanodot-coated autophagosomes can escape from cancer cells to lymph nodes, where they activate tumour-specific T cells. We show that our approach reduces tumour burden and provide long-term immune surveillance protection for cured mice. This work provides a method for the direct formation of personalized autophagosome-based cancer vaccines in vivo, offering a promising strategy for tumour treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frederic Català-Castro, Santiago Ortiz-Vásquez, Carmen Martínez-Fernández, Fabio Pezzano, Carla Garcia-Cabau, Martín Fernández-Campo, Neus Sanfeliu-Cerdán, Senda Jiménez-Delgado, Xavier Salvatella, Verena Ruprecht, Paolo-Antonio Frigeri, Michael Krieg
{"title":"Measuring age-dependent viscoelasticity of organelles, cells and organisms with time-shared optical tweezer microrheology","authors":"Frederic Català-Castro, Santiago Ortiz-Vásquez, Carmen Martínez-Fernández, Fabio Pezzano, Carla Garcia-Cabau, Martín Fernández-Campo, Neus Sanfeliu-Cerdán, Senda Jiménez-Delgado, Xavier Salvatella, Verena Ruprecht, Paolo-Antonio Frigeri, Michael Krieg","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01830-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01830-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quantifying the mechanical response of the biological milieu (such as the cell’s interior) and complex fluids (such as biomolecular condensates) would enable a better understanding of cellular differentiation and aging and accelerate drug discovery. Here we present time-shared optical tweezer microrheology to determine the frequency- and age-dependent viscoelastic properties of biological materials. Our approach involves splitting a single laser beam into two near-instantaneous time-shared optical traps to carry out simultaneous force and displacement measurements and quantify the mechanical properties ranging from millipascals to kilopascals across five decades of frequency. To create a practical and robust nanorheometer, we leverage both numerical and analytical models to analyse typical deviations from the ideal behaviour and offer solutions to account for these discrepancies. We demonstrate the versatility of the technique by measuring the liquid–solid phase transitions of MEC-2 stomatin and CPEB4 biomolecular condensates, and quantify the complex viscoelastic properties of intracellular compartments of zebrafish progenitor cells. In <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i>, we uncover how mutations in the nuclear envelope proteins LMN-1 lamin A, EMR-1 emerin and LEM-2 LEMD2, which cause premature aging disorders in humans, soften the cytosol of intestinal cells during organismal age. We demonstrate that time-shared optical tweezer microrheology offers the rapid phenotyping of material properties inside cells and protein blends, which can be used for biomedical and drug-screening applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Half-wave nanolasers and intracellular plasmonic lasing particles","authors":"Sangyeon Cho, Nicola Martino, Seok-Hyun Yun","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01843-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01843-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ultimate limit for laser miniaturization would be achieving lasing action in the lowest-order cavity mode within a device volume of ≤(<i>λ</i>/2<i>n</i>)<sup>3</sup>, where <i>λ</i> is the free-space wavelength and <i>n</i> is the refractive index. Here we highlight the equivalence of localized surface plasmons and surface plasmon polaritons within resonant systems, introducing nanolasers that oscillate in the lowest-order localized surface plasmon or, equivalently, half-cycle surface plasmon polariton. These diffraction-limited single-mode emitters, ranging in size from 170 to 280 nm, harness strong coupling between gold and In<sub><i>x</i></sub>Ga<sub>1−<i>x</i></sub>As<sub>1−<i>y</i></sub>P<sub><i>y</i></sub> in the near-infrared (<i>λ</i> = 1,000–1,460 nm), away from the surface plasmon frequency. This configuration supports only the lowest-order dipolar mode within the semiconductor’s broad gain bandwidth. A quasi-continuous-level semiconductor laser model explains the lasing dynamics under optical pumping. In addition, we fabricate isolated gold-coated semiconductor discs and demonstrate higher-order lasing within live biological cells. These plasmonic nanolasers hold promise for multi-colour imaging and optical barcoding in cellular applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"351 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nasim Farajpour, Y. M. Nuwan D. Y. Bandara, Lauren Lastra, Kevin J. Freedman
{"title":"Negative memory capacitance and ionic filtering effects in asymmetric nanopores","authors":"Nasim Farajpour, Y. M. Nuwan D. Y. Bandara, Lauren Lastra, Kevin J. Freedman","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01829-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01829-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The pervasive model for a solvated, ion-filled nanopore is often a resistor in parallel with a capacitor. For conical nanopore geometries, here we propose the inclusion of a Warburg-like element, which is necessary to explain otherwise anomalous observations such as negative capacitance and low-pass filtering of translocation events (we term this phenomenon as Warburg filtering). The negative capacitance observed here has long equilibration times and memory (that is, mem-capacitance) at negative voltages. We used the transient occlusion of the pore using λ-DNA and 10 kbp DNA to test whether events are being attenuated by purely ionic phenomena when there is sufficient amplifier bandwidth. We argue here that both phenomena can be explained by the inclusion of the Warburg-like element, which is mechanistically linked to concentration polarization and activation energy to generate and maintain localized concentration gradients. We conclude the study with insights into the transduction of molecular translocations into electrical signals, which is not simply based on pulse-like resistance changes but instead on the complex and nonlinear storage of ions that enter dis-equilibrium during molecular transit.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Baptiste Coquinot, Anna T. Bui, Damien Toquer, Angelos Michaelides, Nikita Kavokine, Stephen J. Cox, Lydéric Bocquet
{"title":"Momentum tunnelling between nanoscale liquid flows","authors":"Baptiste Coquinot, Anna T. Bui, Damien Toquer, Angelos Michaelides, Nikita Kavokine, Stephen J. Cox, Lydéric Bocquet","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01842-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01842-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The world of nanoscales in fluidics is the frontier where the continuum of fluid mechanics meets the atomic, and even quantum, nature of matter. While water dynamics remains largely classical under extreme confinement, several experiments have recently reported coupling between water transport and the electronic degrees of freedom of the confining materials. This avenue prompts us to reconsider nanoscale hydrodynamic flows under the perspective of interacting excitations, akin to condensed matter frameworks. Here we show, using a combination of many-body theory and molecular simulations, that the flow of a liquid can induce the flow of another liquid behind a separating wall, at odds with the prediction of continuum hydrodynamics. We further show that the range of this ‘flow tunnelling’ can be tuned through the solid’s electronic excitations, with a maximum occurring when these are at resonance with the liquid’s charge density fluctuations. Flow tunnelling is expected to play a role in global transport across nanoscale fluidic networks, such as lamellar graphene oxide or MXene membranes. It further suggests exploiting the electronic properties of the confining walls for manipulating liquids via their dielectric spectra, beyond the nature and characteristics of individual molecules.</p>","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"831 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Renewable hydrogen is having a moment","authors":"Katherine Bourzac","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01838-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01838-4","url":null,"abstract":"Companies are scaling up proton exchange membrane electrolyser production, but the technology needs to grow much faster, and become less expensive, to meet ambitious climate goals.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solar cells for stored energy","authors":"Dirk Eidemüller","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01837-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01837-5","url":null,"abstract":"Thermophotovoltaics has made great progress recently and the first start-ups are entering the market with storage systems for renewable energy. But how promising is this technology?","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The challenge of studying interfaces in battery materials","authors":"Claire Villevieille","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01836-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-024-01836-6","url":null,"abstract":"The lack of standardization in the protocols used to assess the physicochemical properties of the battery electrode surface layer has led to data dispersion and biased interpretation in the literature. Here I propose guidelines for investigating it properly — or at least to allow a fair comparison between literature data.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"20 1","pages":"2-5"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142858155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}