Engineering articles from across Nature Portfolio

A holography-inspired self-controlled reconfigurable intelligent surface eliminates the need for base station control, paving the way for cost-effective large-scale deployment in 6G networks.

Catalysts often transform dynamically during reaction, bringing challenges in terms of changing activity, selectivity, and stability. Research now demonstrates an operation strategy based on in situ catalyst formation and dissolution to recover the performance of catalysts for electrochemical CO₂ reduction to methane.

Lithium oxidation at the anode, not organic-electrolyte combustion, is found to be the leading cause of thermal runaway and fires in high-energy lithium batteries. For fire safety, electrolytes should be materials that are able to scavenge oxygen through low-exothermic reactions or stop oxygen crossover from cathode to anode.

A holography-inspired self-controlled reconfigurable intelligent surface eliminates the need for base station control, paving the way for cost-effective large-scale deployment in 6G networks.

Tony Kenyon, the director of the Neuroware Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC), introduces the UK’s first IKC in neuromorphic (brain-inspired) computing hardware — its goals, structure and the broader vision for brain-inspired technologies.

Sergei Turitsyn, the director of the UK Multidisciplinary Centre for Neuromorphic Computing, introduces the UK’s first multidisciplinary centre dedicated to advancing brain-inspired, energy-efficient computing to address sustainability challenges.

Catalysts often transform dynamically during reaction, bringing challenges in terms of changing activity, selectivity, and stability. Research now demonstrates an operation strategy based on in situ catalyst formation and dissolution to recover the performance of catalysts for electrochemical CO₂ reduction to methane.

Biologically inspired electronic neurons could boost the efficiency of artificial-intelligence systems.

Lithium oxidation at the anode, not organic-electrolyte combustion, is found to be the leading cause of thermal runaway and fires in high-energy lithium batteries. For fire safety, electrolytes should be materials that are able to scavenge oxygen through low-exothermic reactions or stop oxygen crossover from cathode to anode.