Engineering Collection from PNAS Nexus
Explore the Engineering collection from PNAS Nexus, featuring innovative and impactful research across diverse engineering fields. This collection emphasizes the critical role of engineering in addressing current challenges and advancing solutions for a sustainable future.
With a diverse array of studies, this collection underscores the journal’s commitment to publishing high-quality engineering research and fostering collaboration within the scientific community.
Engineering Thematic Collection
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Slowly but surely: Exposure of communities and infrastructure to subsidence on the US east coast
Leonard O Ohenhen and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2024, pgad426, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad426
Published: 02 January 2024
Public Health and Epidemiology
Leaded aviation gasoline exposure risk and child blood lead levels
Sammy Zahran and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2023, pgac285, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac285
Published: 10 January 2023
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Cementing CO2 into C-S-H: A step toward concrete carbon neutrality
Damian Stefaniuk and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2023, pgad052, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad052
Published: 28 March 2023
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Architected materials for artificial reefs to increase storm energy dissipation
Edvard Ronglan and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 3, March 2024, pgae101, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae101
Published: 26 March 2024
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Marangoni spreading on liquid substrates in new media art
San To Chan and Eliot Fried
PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 2, February 2024, pgae059, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae059
Published: 08 February 2024
Physical Sciences and Engineering
An all ambient, room temperature–processed solar cell from a bare silicon wafer
Kazuya Okamoto and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2023, pgad067, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad067
Published: 14 March 2023
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Robust capital cost optimization of generation and multitimescale storage requirements for a 100% renewable Australian electricity grid
Raheel A Shaikh and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 4, April 2024, pgae127, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae127
Published: 25 March 2024
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Functional bio-inspired hybrid fliers with separated ring and leading edge vortices
Jin-Tae Kim and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 3, March 2024, pgae110, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae110
Published: 11 March 2024
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Enhancing poststroke hand movement recovery: Efficacy of RehabSwift, a personalized brain–computer interface system
Sam Darvishi and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2024, pgae240, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae240
Published: 09 July 2024
Physical Sciences and Engineering
A kirigami-enabled electrochromic wearable variable-emittance device for energy-efficient adaptive personal thermoregulation
Ting-Hsuan Chen and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 6, June 2023, pgad165, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad165
Published: 13 June 2023
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Engineering confined fluids to autonomously assemble hierarchical 3D structures
Oleg E Shklyaev and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 7, July 2023, pgad232, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad232
Published: 24 July 2023
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Multisectoral drivers of decarbonizing battery electric vehicles in China
Fang Wang and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2023, pgad123, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad123
Published: 16 May 2023
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Microfluidic platform using focused ultrasound passing through hydrophobic meshes with jump availability
Yusuke Koroyasu and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 7, July 2023, pgad207, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad207
Published: 19 June 2023
Physical Sciences and Engineering
First contact: Fine structure of the impact flash and ejecta during hypervelocity impact
Gary Simpson and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 7, July 2023, pgad214, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad214
Published: 11 July 2023
Physical Sciences and Engineering
An intrinsic polymer electrolyte via in situ cross-linked for solid lithium-based batteries with high performance
Chen Li and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 9, September 2023, pgad263, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad263
Published: 05 September 2023
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Spatio-temporal patterning of extensile active stresses in microtubule-based active fluids
Linnea M Lemma and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2023, pgad130, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad130
Published: 12 April 2023
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Incorporating platinum circular economy into China’s hydrogen pathways toward carbon neutrality
Peng Wang and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 5, May 2024, pgae172, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae172
Published: 14 May 2024
Physical Sciences and Engineering
A semiconducting hybrid of RhOx/GaN@InGaN for simultaneous activation of methane and water toward syngas by photocatalysis
Dongke Li and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 11, November 2023, pgad347, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad347
Published: 21 November 2023
Biological, Health, and Medical Sciences
Extremely low daylight sea-crossing flights of a nocturnal migrant
Gabriel Norevik and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 7, July 2023, pgad225, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad225
Published: 08 July 2023
Perspective
Toward the remote monitoring of armed conflicts
Valerie Sticher and others
PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 6, June 2023, pgad181, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad181
Published: 29 May 2023