Additive manufacturing of ultralong and architected single crystals

By: Changmeng Liu · Yinan Cui · Jiachen Wang · Xiao Han · Zhongao Ji · Zhun Liang · Chongle Zhang · Jaime Marian · Zixiang Li · Tao Lu · Tianqiu Xu · Jinyu Zhang · Wei Cui · Wei Liu · Daining Fang · Y. Morris Wang

21 October 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11185-0

A free-form additive manufacturing method that uses alternating and pulsed heat inputs is described for fabricating metre-tall, centimetre-diameter single crystals of Ti-6Al-4V, as well as hard-to-process refractory metals, including W, Mo, Nb and MoNb alloys.

Atomic-scale spin sensing of a 2D d-wave altermagnet <i>via</i> helical tunneling

Nature

By: Zhuying Wang · Shuikang Yu · Xingkai Cheng · Xiaoyu Xiao · Wanru Ma · Yitian Ma · Feixiong Quan · Hongxi Song · Kunming Zhang · Yunmei Zhang · Wenhao Liu · Priti Yadav · Haohao Sheng · Aifeng Wang · Xiangbiao Shi · Zhijun Wang · Qian Niu · Yang Gao · Bin Xiang · Junwei Liu · Zhenyu Wang · Xianhui Chen

13 October 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11257-1

Atomic-scale spin sensing of a 2D d-wave altermagnet via helical tunneling

An operational perturbation proteomics-based virtual cell model

Nature

By: Rui Sun · Liujia Qian · Yongge Li · Tong Liu · Honghan Cheng · Xuedong Zhang · Xueya Zhou · Yuecheng Zhan · Guangmei Zhang · Zhengchao Luo · Kunpeng Ma · Chunlong Wu · Dongchen Ji · Zhangzhi Xue · Hongxue Meng · Yuhang Xiang · Dingwei Lei · Qianhe Zhou · Wenbin Hu · Yuhan Deng · Lingling Tan · Qi Xiao · Zhiwei Liu · Lei Zeng · Liqin Qian · Xuan Zheng · Qiong Hu · Nianzi Luo · Weinan E · Peijie Zhou · Han Wen · Yi Zhu · Tiannan Guo

9 September 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11001-9

Temporal protein-abundance measurements from systematically perturbed breast cancer cell lines were generated to develop ProteinTalks, a virtual cell model that functions as an operational tool for diverse drug discovery tasks.

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