The recent emergence of 2D van der Waals magnets down to atomic layer thickness provides an exciting platform for exploring quantum magnetism and spintronics applications. The van der Waals nature stabilizes the long-range ferromagnetic order as a result of magnetic anisotropy. Furthermore, giant tunneling magnetoresistance and electrical control of magnetism have been reported. However, the potential of 2D van der Waals magnets for magnonics, magnon-based spintronics, has not been explored yet. Here, we report the experimental observation of long-distance magnon transport in quasi-twodimensional van der Waals antiferromagnet MnPS3, which demonstrates the 2D magnets as promising material candidates for magnonics. As the 2D MnPS3 thickness decreases, a shorter magnon diffusion length is observed, which could be attributed to the surface-impurity-induced magnon scattering. Our results could pave the way for exploring quantum magnonics phenomena and designing future magnonics devices based on 2D van der Waals magnets. I. INTRODUCTIONThe recent emergence of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals magnets down to atomic-layer thickness has attracted considerable interest and provided an exciting platform for exploring new physical phenomena in low-dimensional magnetism [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. The long-range ferromagnetic order in 2D magnets has been demonstrated in bilayer Cr2Ge2Te6 and single layer CrI3 as a result of magnetic anisotropy [1,2,16]. Shortly, the potential of such van der Waals ferromagnets for spintronics applications has been intensively explored. For example, giant tunneling magnetoresistance in bilayer CrI3 has been demonstrated [17][18][19], which is much higher compared to conventional single-crystalline-MgO barrier based ferromagnetic tunneling junctions [20,21].The important role of magnon-assistant tunneling through thin CrBr3 barriers has been shown in the graphene/CrBr3/graphene heterostructures [22]. Because of their 2D nature, efficient electrical control of magnetism in 2D ferromagnetic materials has also been explored [3,[23][24][25][26], which provides an alternative route towards high-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductors [27,28]. Furthermore, room-temperature 2D ferromagnetism in monolayer van der Waals magnet has also been demonstrated in epitaxial films and ionic liquid gated flakes [8,9,25].Magnonics refers to the magnon-based spintronics, the use of magnon-mediated spin current for information logic and computing applications [29]. One of the major research directions is to search the suitable magnon transport channel materials, which can propagate magnons over a long Sciences (Grant No. XDB28020100). References:[1]C.

We report direct experimental signatures for the spin superfluid ground state in canted antiferromagnets via nonlocal spin transport.

The extraordinary properties of biological materials often result from their sophisticated hierarchical structures. Through multilevel and cross-scale structural designs, biological materials offset the weakness of their individual building blocks and enhance performance at multiple length scales to match the multifunctional needs of organisms. One essential merit of hierarchical structure is that it can optimize the interfacial features of the “building blocks” at different length scales, from the molecular level to the macroscale. Understanding the roles of biological material interfaces (BMIs) on the determination of properties and functions of biological materials has become a growing interdisciplinary research area in recent years. A pivotal aim of these studies is to use BMIs as inspiration for developing bioinspired and biomimetic materials and devices with advanced structures and functions. Given these considerations, this review aims to comprehensively discuss the structure–property–function relationships of BMIs in nature. We particularly focus on the discussion of BMIs and their inspired materials from mechanical and optical perspectives because these two directions are the most well-investigated and closely related. The challenges and directions of design and fabrication of BMI-inspired mechanical and optical materials are also discussed. This review is expected to garner interest from advanced material communities as well as environmental, nanotechnology, food processing, and engineering fields.

The creation of nanostructures with precise chemistries on material surfaces is of importance in a wide variety of areas such as lithography, superhydrophobicity, and cell adhesion. We describe a platform for surface functionalization that involves the fabrication of cylindrical micellar brushes on a silicon wafer through seeded growth of crystallizable block copolymers at the termini of immobilized, surface-confined crystallite seeds. The density, length, and coronal chemistry of the micellar brushes can be precisely tuned, and post-growth decoration with nanoparticles enables applications in catalysis and antibacterial surface modification. The micellar brushes can also be grown on ultrathin two-dimensional materials such as graphene oxide nanosheets and further assembled into a membrane for the separation of oil-in-water emulsions and gold nanoparticles.

M agnetic   skyrmions are particle-like spin textures that have been observed in chiral bulk magnets 1-4 and asymmetric magnetic multilayers 5-14. Electrical currents and current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) can be used to manipulate skyrmions in various metallic systems 2,7,8,10,14 , and such capabilities could be useful in the development of energy-efficient spintronic devices. Thermal effects can also be used to generate and manipulate skyrmions 15,16 , which could lead to the development of unconventional computing 17 and energy-harvesting 18 applications. These thermal effects are, however, difficult to observe in bulk samples and large-area films; therefore, microstructured devices need to be employed. Furthermore, the generation of skyrmions via a pure thermal effect 19-21 has not been experimentally demonstrated so far; moreover, whether the skyrmion motion driven by thermal gradients follows the direction of thermal diffusion or, oppositely, the direction of magnonic spin torque 15,20,22,23 remains an open question.   approach allows us to study the dynamics of skyrmions induced by a perpendicular magnetic field (μ 0 H ⊥), electrical current (j e), temperature (T) and temperature gradient (ΔT(x)). The magnetic imaging was conducted at the Fe L 3 edge Q6

A kind of inorganic prodrug, tellurium nanowires with enhanced ROS generation and GSH depletion, was developed for selective cancer therapy with high efficacy.

The emerging field of superconductor (SC) spintronics has attracted intensive attentions recently.Many fantastic spin dependent properties in SCs have been discovered, including large magnetoresistance, long spin lifetimes and the giant spin Hall effect, etc. Regarding the spin dynamics in superconducting thin films, few studies has been reported yet. Here, we report the investigation of the spin dynamics in a s-wave superconducting NbN film via spin pumping from an adjacent insulating ferromagnet GdN film. A profound coherence peak of the Gilbert damping of GdN is observed slightly below the superconducting critical temperature of the NbN, which agrees well with recent theoretical prediction for s-wave SCs in the presence of impurity spin-orbit scattering. This observation is also a manifestation of the dynamic spin injection into superconducting NbN thin film. Our results demonstrate that spin pumping could be used to probe the dynamic spin susceptibility of superconducting thin films, thus pave the way for future investigation of spin dynamics of interfacial and two dimensional crystalline SCs.

Inducing magnetic orders in a topological insulator (TI) to break its time reversal symmetry has been predicted to reveal many exotic topological quantum phenomena. The manipulation of magnetic orders in a TI layer can play a key role in harnessing these quantum phenomena toward technological applications. Here we fabricated a thin magnetic TI film on an antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulator Cr 2 O 3 layer and found that the magnetic moments of the magnetic TI layer and the surface spins of the Cr 2 O 3 layers favor interfacial AFM coupling. Field cooling studies show a crossover from negative to positive exchange bias clarifying the competition between the interfacial AFM coupling energy and the Zeeman energy in the AFM insulator layer. The interfacial exchange coupling also enhances the Curie temperature of the magnetic TI layer. The unique interfacial AFM alignment in magnetic TI on AFM insulator heterostructures opens a new route toward manipulating the interplay between topological states and magnetic orders in spin-engineered heterostructures, facilitating the exploration of proof-ofconcept TI-based spintronic and electronic devices with multifunctionality and low power consumption.