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Olomouc scientists participated in a study published in Science. It reveals a new mechanism of vascular tissue growth.

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Current sensors are not good enough. Scientists propose a new way to monitor plant health

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D. Panáček, V. Kupka, M. Nalepa, I. Dědek, R. Álvarez-Diduk, S. Olenik, J. Flauzino, J. Zdražil, P. Jakubec, L. Zdražil, L. Spíchal, K. K. Sonigara, R. Zbořil, M. Pumera, A. Merkoçi, J. Wang, N. De Diego, F. Güder and M. Otyepka

"Printing technologies for monitoring crop health",
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, Article in press, 2026.
IF = 15.7

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-68778-6

B. Gupta, V. Shrivastav, S. Sundriyal, A. A. Melvin, M. Holdynski, A. Kuhn and W. Nogala

"Bipolar electrochemical tweezers using pristine carbon fibers with intrinsically asymmetric features",
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 16, article no. 10061, 2025.
IF = 15.7

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-65036-z

R. Arshad, I. Skalidis, D. Kopečný, S. Brabencová, M. Opatíková, P. Ilík, P. Pospíšil, F. Hamdi, S. Ćavar Zeljković, M. Kopečná, P. Roudnický, D. Lazár, E. Elias, R. Croce, P. L. Kastritis and R. Kouřil

"Cryo-EM structure of photosystem II supercomplex from a green microalga with extreme phototolerance",
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 17, article no. 341, 2026.
IF = 15.7

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-65861-2

M. Kaur, S. Rej, J. Navrátil, E. Y. Santiago, M. Otyepka, S. Livraghi, L. Mino, Š. Kment, Z. Xu, H. Zhu, P. Fornasiero, A. O. Govorov, P. Błoński and A. Naldoni

"Near-infrared plasmonic activation of molecular oxygen for selective oxidation of biomass derivatives",
NATURE CATALYSIS, vol. 8, iss. 12, pp. 1370-1381, 2025.
IF = 44.6

DOI: 10.1038/s41929-025-01454-y

L. Zdražil, A. Cadranel, G. Zoppellaro, A. Günay-Gürer, Z. Baďura, D. Panáček, H. Kmentová, C. Otero, Š. Kment, M. A. Huergo, E. Fonda, R. Zbořil and D. M. Guldi

"Enzyme-inspired single-atom photocatalysis for oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide",
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 16, article no. 10949, 2025.
IF = 15.7

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67189-3

O. Henrotte, S. Saris, F. Gröbmeyer, C. G. Gruber, I. Bilgin, A. Högele, N. J. Halas, P. Nordlander, E. Cortés and A. Naldoni

"Spatially resolved photocatalytic active sites and quantum efficiency in a 2D semiconductor",
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 16, iss. 1, article no. 6904, 2025.
IF = 15.7

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62284-x

S. Song, A. Pinar Solé, A. Matěj, G. Li, O. Stetsovych, D. Soler, H. Yang, M. Telychko, J. Li, M. Kumar, Q. Chen, S. Edalatmanesh, J. Brabec, L. Veis, J. Wu, P. Jelinek and J. Lu

"Highly entangled polyradical nanographene with coexisting strong correlation and topological frustration",
NATURE CHEMISTRY, vol. 16, iss. 6, pp. 938-944, 2024.
IF = 20.2

DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01453-9

M. Grabarics, B. Mallada, S. Edalatmanesh, A. Jiménez-Martín, M. Pykal, M. Ondráček, P. Kührová, W. B. Struwe, P. Banáš, S. Rauschenbach, P. Jelínek and B. de la Torre

"Atomically resolved imaging of the conformations and adsorption geometries of individual β-cyclodextrins with non-contact AFM",
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 15, iss. 1, pp. 9482, 2024.
IF = 15.7

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53555-0

A. B. Tesler, S. Kolle, L. H. Prado, I. Thievessen, D. Böhringer, M. Backholm, B. Karunakaran, H. A. Nurmi, M. Latikka, L. Fischer, S. Stafslien, Z. M. Cenev, J. V. I. Timonen, M. Bruns, A. Mazare, U. Lohbauer, S. Virtanen, B. Fabry, P. Schmuki, R. H. A. Ras, J. Aizenberg and W. H. Goldmann

"Long-term stability of aerophilic metallic surfaces underwater",
NATURE MATERIALS, vol. 22, iss. 12, pp. 1548-1555, 2023.
IF = 47.656

DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01670-6

A. Cheruvathoor Poulose, G. Zoppellaro, I. Konidakis, E. Serpetzoglou, E. Stratakis, O. Tomanec, M. Beller, A. Bakandritsos and R. Zbořil

"Reply to: Primary role of photothermal heating in light-driven reduction of nitroarenes",
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, vol. 18, iss. 4, pp. 327-328, 2023.
IF = 40.523

DOI: 10.1038/s41565-023-01353-y

M. Opatíková, D. A. Semchonok, D. Kopečný, P. Ilík, P. Pospíšil, I. Ilíková, P. Roudnický, S. Ć. Zeljković, P. Tarkowski, F. L. Kyrilis, F. Hamdi, P. L. Kastritis and R. Kouřil

"Cryo-EM structure of a plant photosystem II supercomplex with light-harvesting protein Lhcb8 and α-tocopherol",
NATURE PLANTS, vol. 9, iss. 8, pp. 1359-1369, 2023.
IF = 17.352

DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01483-0

Z. Wang, S. Shaabani, X. Gao, Y. L. D. Ng, V. Sapozhnikova, P. Mertins, J. Krönke and A. Dömling

"Direct-to-biology, automated, nano-scale synthesis, and phenotypic screening-enabled E3 ligase modulator discovery",
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 14, iss. 1, pp. 8437, 2023.
IF = 14.919

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43614-3

P. Patil, Q. Zheng, K. Kurpiewsk and A. Dömling

"The isocyanide SN2 reaction",
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 14, iss. 1, pp. 5807, 2023.
IF = 14.919

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41253-2

B. Mallada, M. Ondráček, M. Lamanec, A. Gallardo, A. Jiménez-Martín, B. de la Torre, P. Hobza and P. Jelínek

"Visualization of π-hole in molecules by means of Kelvin probe force microscopy",
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 14, iss. 1, pp. 4954, 2023.
IF = 14.919

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40593-3

A. Cheruvathoor Poulose, M. Medveď, V. R. Bakuru, A. Sharma, D. Singh, S. B. Kalidindi, H. Bares, M. Otyepka, K. Jayaramulu, A. Bakandritsos and R. Zbořil

"Acidic graphene organocatalyst for the superior transformation of wastes into high-added-value chemicals",
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 14, article no. 1373, 2023.
IF = 14.919

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36602-0