This collection explores the dynamic frontier of research spanning from carbon nanotubes to organic semiconductors, where chemists and materials scientists are redefining what is possible at the atomic scale. These studies investigate how molecular structures interact to create new technologies, often bridging the gap between theoretical chemistry and real-world applications like flexible electronics or advanced energy storage.

Every new preprint in this category arrives directly from arXiv, and Gist.Science immediately processes each submission to make the findings accessible to everyone. We provide both clear, plain-language overviews for general readers and detailed technical summaries for specialists, ensuring that complex discoveries in this rapidly evolving field are easy to understand and verify. Below are the latest papers exploring these groundbreaking materials and their transformative potential.

A Hardware-Anchored Privacy Middleware for PII Sharing Across Heterogeneous Embedded Consumer Devices

This paper introduces the User Data Sharing System (UDSS), a hardware-anchored, platform-agnostic middleware for heterogeneous consumer electronics that enhances privacy and reduces onboarding friction by enforcing context-aware PII sharing and data minimization without relying on persistent cloud-based user-device binding.

Aditya Sabbineni, Pravin Nagare, Devendra Dahiphale, Preetam Dedu, Willison Lopes2026-04-10💻 cs

Nexus: Transparent I/O Offloading for High-Density Serverless Computing

Nexus is a serverless-native KVM-based hypervisor that transparently decouples compute from I/O by offloading the communication fabric to a shared host backend, thereby significantly reducing resource consumption and startup latency while preserving full ecosystem compatibility without requiring code migration.

JooYoung Park, Kevin Nguetchouang, Jovan Stojkovic, Likun Zhang, Riccardo Mancini, Marco Cali, Dmitrii Ustiugov2026-04-09💻 cs

WIO: Upload-Enabled Computational Storage on CXL SSDs

This paper presents WIO, a system for CXL SSDs that enables reversible computational storage by dynamically migrating WebAssembly-based processing actors between the host and device via a zero-copy protocol to overcome thermal and power constraints, thereby significantly improving throughput and reducing latency without requiring application modifications.

Yiwei Yang, Yanpeng Hu, Yusheng Zheng, Estabon Ramos, Jianchang Su, Andi Quinn, Wei Zhang2026-04-07💻 cs