Yung-Chien Chou, Chih-Yuan Lin, Alice Castan, Joshua Chen, Rachael Keneipp, Parisa Yasini, Dimitri Monos, Marija Drndić
{"title":"Coupled nanopores for single-molecule detection","authors":"Yung-Chien Chou, Chih-Yuan Lin, Alice Castan, Joshua Chen, Rachael Keneipp, Parisa Yasini, Dimitri Monos, Marija Drndić","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01746-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-024-01746-7","url":null,"abstract":"Rapid sensing of molecules is increasingly important in many studies and applications, such as DNA sequencing and protein identification. Here, beyond atomically thin 2D nanopores, we conceptualize, simulate and experimentally demonstrate coupled, guiding and reusable bilayer nanopore platforms, enabling advanced ultrafast detection of unmodified molecules. The bottom layer can collimate and decelerate the molecule before it enters the sensing zone, and the top 2D pore (~2 nm) enables position sensing. We varied the number of pores in the bottom layer from one to nine while fixing one 2D pore in the top layer. When the number of pores in the bottom layer is reduced to one, sensing is performed by both layers, and distinct T- and W-shaped translocation signals indicate the precise position of molecules and are sensitive to fragment lengths. This is uniquely enabled by microsecond resolution capabilities and precision nanofabrication. Coupled nanopores represent configurable multifunctional systems with inter- and intralayer structures for improved electromechanical control and prolonged dwell times in a 2D sensing zone. In this study, the authors present the design and fabrication of reusable, atomically thin, coupled bilayer solid-state nanopores that enable the slowing down and positional tracking of molecules for label-free, single-molecule sensing.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"19 11","pages":"1686-1692"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141980964","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}
Tingbiao Guo, Zhi Zhang, Zijian Lin, Jiahan Tian, Yi Jin, Julian Evans, Yinghe Xu, Sailing He
{"title":"Durable and programmable ultrafast nanophotonic matrix of spectral pixels","authors":"Tingbiao Guo, Zhi Zhang, Zijian Lin, Jiahan Tian, Yi Jin, Julian Evans, Yinghe Xu, Sailing He","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01756-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-024-01756-5","url":null,"abstract":"Locally addressable nanophotonic devices are essential for modern applications such as light detection, optical imaging, beam steering and displays. Despite recent advances, a versatile solution with a high-speed tuning rate, long-life durability and programmability across multiple pixels remains elusive. Here we introduce a programmable nanophotonic matrix consisting of vanadium dioxide (VO2) cavities on pixelated microheaters that meets all these requirements. The indirect Joule heating of these VO2 cavities can result in pronounced spectral modulation with colour changes and ensures exceptional endurance even after a million switching cycles. Precise control over the thermal dissipation power through a SiO2 layer of an optimized thickness on Si facilitates an ultrafast modulation rate exceeding 70 kHz. We demonstrated a video-rate nanophotonic colour display by electrically addressing a matrix of 12 × 12 pixels. Furthermore, inspired by the unique pixel-level programmability with multiple intermediate states of the spectral pixels, a spatiotemporal modulation concept is introduced for spectrum detection. Electrically addressable VO2 elements show large resonance shifts during phase transitions, producing a brilliant colour change at a modulation rate of 70 kHz.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"19 11","pages":"1635-1643"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-024-01756-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141918864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engineering modular enzymes using DNA origami","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01739-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-024-01739-6","url":null,"abstract":"A DNA origami nanocompartment is designed to trap an unfoldase machine in a unidirectional orientation. This trapping provides a gateway mechanism for substrate recruitment and translocation to a downstream compartment that hosts a protease. Kinetics and proteomics data demonstrate that the physical connection of the DNA-based modules improves the global performance of the chimera and reduces off-target reactions.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"19 10","pages":"1440-1441"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141904543","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":"An artificial metabzyme for tumour-cell-specific metabolic therapy","authors":"Xi Hu, Bo Zhang, Miao Zhang, Wenshi Liang, Bangzhen Hong, Zhiyuan Ma, Jianpeng Sheng, Tianqi Liu, Shengfei Yang, Zeyu Liang, Jichao Zhang, Chunhai Fan, Fangyuan Li, Daishun Ling","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01733-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-024-01733-y","url":null,"abstract":"Metabolic dysregulation constitutes a pivotal feature of cancer progression. Enzymes with multiple metal active sites play a major role in this process. Here we report the first metabolic-enzyme-like FeMoO4 nanocatalyst, dubbed ‘artificial metabzyme’. It showcases dual active centres, namely, Fe2+ and tetrahedral Mo4+, that mirror the characteristic architecture of the archetypal metabolic enzyme xanthine oxidoreductase. Employing spatially dynamic metabolomics in conjunction with the assessments of tumour-associated metabolites, we demonstrate that FeMoO4 metabzyme catalyses the metabolic conversion of tumour-abundant xanthine into uric acid. Subsequent metabolic adjustments orchestrate crosstalk with immune cells, suggesting a potential therapeutic pathway for cancer. Our study introduces an innovative paradigm in cancer therapy, where tumour cells are metabolically reprogrammed to autonomously modulate and directly interface with immune cells through the intervention of an artificial metabzyme, for tumour-cell-specific metabolic therapy. A metabolic-enzyme-like nanocatalyst is reported, dubbed ‘artificial metabzyme’. Tumour cells can be metabolically reprogrammed to autonomously modulate and interact with immune cells, facilitating tumour-cell-specific metabolic therapy.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"19 11","pages":"1712-1722"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141891897","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}
Yuesong Hu, Jhordan Rogers, Yuxin Duan, Arventh Velusamy, Steven Narum, Sarah Al Abdullatif, Khalid Salaita
{"title":"Quantifying T cell receptor mechanics at membrane junctions using DNA origami tension sensors","authors":"Yuesong Hu, Jhordan Rogers, Yuxin Duan, Arventh Velusamy, Steven Narum, Sarah Al Abdullatif, Khalid Salaita","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01723-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-024-01723-0","url":null,"abstract":"The T cell receptor (TCR) is thought to be a mechanosensor, meaning that it transmits mechanical force to its antigen and leverages the force to amplify the specificity and magnitude of TCR signalling. Although a variety of molecular probes have been proposed to quantify TCR mechanics, these probes are immobilized on hard substrates, and thus fail to reveal fluid TCR–antigen interactions in the physiological context of cell membranes. Here we developed DNA origami tension sensors (DOTS) which bear force sensors on a DNA origami breadboard and allow mapping of TCR mechanotransduction at dynamic intermembrane junctions. We quantified the mechanical forces at fluid TCR–antigen bonds and observed their dependence on cell state, antigen mobility, antigen potency, antigen height and F-actin activity. The programmability of DOTS allows us to tether these to microparticles to mechanically screen antigens in high throughput using flow cytometry. Additionally, DOTS were anchored onto live B cells, allowing quantification of TCR mechanics at immune cell–cell junctions. The authors present nanoscale DNA origami tension sensors tethered to lipid membranes and reveal the magnitude, dynamics and driving mechanisms of molecular forces experienced by immunoreceptors at fluid membrane junctions.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"19 11","pages":"1674-1685"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141891898","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}
Qilun Wang, Yaqi Cheng, Hong Bin Yang, Chenliang Su, Bin Liu
{"title":"Integrative catalytic pairs for efficient multi-intermediate catalysis","authors":"Qilun Wang, Yaqi Cheng, Hong Bin Yang, Chenliang Su, Bin Liu","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01716-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-024-01716-z","url":null,"abstract":"Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have attracted considerable research interest owing to their combined merits of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts. However, the uniform and isolated active sites of SACs fall short in catalysing complex chemical processes that simultaneously involve multiple intermediates. In this Review, we highlight an emerging class of catalysts with adjacent binary active centres, which is called integrative catalytic pairs (ICPs), showing not only atomic-scale site-to-site electronic interactions but also synergistic catalytic effects. Compared with SACs or their derivative dual-atom catalysts (DACs), multi-interactive intermediates on ICPs can overcome kinetic barriers, adjust reaction pathways and break the universal linear scaling relations as the smallest active units. Starting from this active-site design principle, each single active atom can be considered as a brick to further build integrative catalytic clusters (ICCs) with desirable configurations, towards trimer or even larger multi-atom units depending on the requirement of a given reaction. This Review highlights the definition, functions and potential of integrative catalytic pairs in multi-intermediate reactions, as a forward step relative to single- and dual-atom catalysts.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"19 10","pages":"1442-1451"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141891900","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}
Lorenzo Orsini, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Yandong Li, Seojoo Lee, Gian Marcello Andolina, Orazio Scarlatella, Matteo Ceccanti, Karuppasamy Soundarapandian, Eli Janzen, James H. Edgar, Gennady Shvets, Frank H. L. Koppens
{"title":"Deep subwavelength topological edge state in a hyperbolic medium","authors":"Lorenzo Orsini, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Yandong Li, Seojoo Lee, Gian Marcello Andolina, Orazio Scarlatella, Matteo Ceccanti, Karuppasamy Soundarapandian, Eli Janzen, James H. Edgar, Gennady Shvets, Frank H. L. Koppens","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01737-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-024-01737-8","url":null,"abstract":"Topological photonics offers the opportunity to control light propagation in a way that is robust from fabrication disorders and imperfections. However, experimental demonstrations have remained on the order of the vacuum wavelength. Theoretical proposals have shown topological edge states that can propagate robustly while embracing deep subwavelength confinement that defies diffraction limits. Here we show the experimental proof of these deep subwavelength topological edge states by implementing periodic modulation of hyperbolic phonon polaritons within a van der Waals heterostructure composed of isotopically pure hexagonal boron nitride flakes on patterned gold films. The topological edge state is confined in a subdiffraction volume of 0.021 µm3, which is four orders of magnitude smaller than the free-space excitation wavelength volume used to probe the system, while maintaining the resonance quality factor above 100. This finding can be directly extended to and hybridized with other van der Waals materials to broadened operational frequency ranges, streamline integration of diverse polaritonic materials, and compatibility with electronic and excitonic systems. A photonic topological edge state, achieved by employing hexagonal boron nitride and patterned gold films, confines light four orders of magnitude below the diffraction limit while preserving a high quality factor.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"19 10","pages":"1485-1490"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141875370","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":"A molecular spin on a scanning probe tip enables quantum sensing at the atomic scale","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41565-024-01731-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41565-024-01731-0","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum sensing at the atomic scale has proved challenging. Now, a quantum sensor comprising a molecular spin, which can be addressed by electron spin resonance, attached to the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope enables the measurement of weak electric and magnetic fields with sub-ångstrom spatial resolution.","PeriodicalId":18915,"journal":{"name":"Nature nanotechnology","volume":"19 10","pages":"1438-1439"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141875369","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}