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Nature Electronics, Published online: 21 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41928-021-00684-9

Measurements of inkjet-printed thin-film devices made from titanium carbide MXene (metal), molybdenum disulfide (semiconductor) and few-layer graphene (semimetal) clarify the charge transport mechanisms of the devices and highlight the role of inter-flake and intra-flake processes.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 21 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41928-021-00683-w

Inorganic molecular crystal films of antimony trioxide can be fabricated using thermal evaporation deposition and used as a van der Waals dielectric in molybdenum disulfide field-effect transistors.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 21 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41928-021-00691-w

Inorganic molecular crystal films of antimony trioxide can be grown on 4-inch wafers via a thermal evaporation process and used as a top-gate oxide in two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide transistors.

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 20 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41565-021-00984-3

Curvilinear DNA-shaped magnetic double helices enable tunable magnetic field nanotextures.

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-03768-w

The inclusion of nitrogen atoms stabilizes the zigzag edges of carbon-based nanoribbons, enabling the ribbons to be decoupled from a substrate and providing a probe for their unconventional magnetism.

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04151-5

Inelastic neutron scattering measurements show that superconductivity in UTe2 is associated with a resonance near antiferromagnetic order that suggests an unexpected spin-singlet component to the electron pairing.

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04171-1

An electric-field-induced topological phase transition from a Mott insulator to a quantum anomalous Hall insulator in near-60-degree-twisted (or AB-stacked) MoTe2/WSe2 heterobilayers is reported.

Nature, Published online: 22 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04201-y

Decoupling spin-polarized edge states using substitutional N-atom dopants along the edges of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) reveals giant spin splitting of a N-dopant edge state, and supports the predicted emergent magnetic order in ZGNRs.

Nature Physics, Published online: 13 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41567-021-01421-x

Although magnons in the quantum Hall regime of graphene have been detected, their thermodynamic properties have not yet been measured. Now, a local probe technique enables the detection of the magnon density and chemical potential.

Nature Physics, Published online: 16 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41567-021-01440-8

A semiconductor platform for experimentally investigating the multiorbital Bose–Hubbard model with long-range interactions is demonstrated. The interactions between the excitons are strong enough to reach the Mott insulator regime.

Nature Physics, Published online: 16 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41567-021-01437-3

When crystal defects are present in an ensemble of spinning colloids that induce transverse forces on each other, the defects assemble into grain boundaries that can break the system apart into a set of crystal whorls.

Nature Physics, Published online: 20 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41567-021-01419-5

Twisted double bilayer graphene is predicted to be a topological insulator under certain conditions. Simultaneous bulk and edge measurements now show metallic transport with a bulk bandgap, suggestive of this prediction.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 16 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41928-021-00686-7

A molybdenum disulfide/tungsten diselenide van der Waals heterostructure can exhibit a room-temperature valley Hall effect with electrically tunable magnitude and polarity, which can be used to create a bipolar valleytronic transistor.

Nature Materials, Published online: 16 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41563-021-01167-0

A moiré-trapped charge density wave is observed at room temperature in a twisted transition metal dichalcogenide system and attributed to local strain variation due to atomic reconstruction.

Nature, Published online: 15 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04002-3

A study using local compressibility measurements reports fractional Chern insulator states at low magnetic field in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, and establishes the applied magnetic field as a means to tune the Berry curvature distribution.

Nature, Published online: 15 December 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04181-z

Author Correction: Half- and quarter-metals in rhombohedral trilayer graphene