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The concept that proteins are selected to fold into a well-defined native state has been effectively addressed within the framework of energy landscapes, underpinning the recent successes of structure prediction tools like AlphaFold. The amyloid fold, however, does not represent a unique minimum for a given single sequence. While the cross-βhydrogen-bonding pattern is common to all amyloids, other aspects of amyloid fiber structures are sensitive not only to the sequence of the aggregating peptides but also to the experimental conditions. This polymorphic nature of amyloid structures challenges structure predictions. In this paper, we use AI to explore the landscape of possible amyloid protofilament structures composed of a single stack of peptides aligned in a parallel, in-register manner. This perspective enables a practical method for predicting protofilament structures of arbitrary sequences: RibbonFold. RibbonFold is adapted from AlphaFold2, incorporating parallel in-register constraints within AlphaFold2’s template module, along with an appropriate polymorphism loss function to address the structural diversity of folds. RibbonFold outperforms AlphaFold2/3 on independent test sets, achieving a mean TM-score of 0.5. RibbonFold proves well-suited to study the polymorphic landscapes of widely studied sequences with documented polymorphisms. The resulting landscapes capture these observed polymorphisms effectively. We show that while well-known amyloid-forming sequences exhibit a limited number of plausible polymorphs on their “solubility” landscape, randomly shuffled sequences with the same composition appear to be negatively selected in terms of their relative solubility. RibbonFold is a valuable framework for structurally characterizing amyloid polymorphism landscapes. 

Inorganic–organic hybrid MXenes (h‐MXenes) are a family of 2D transition metal carbides and nitrides functionalized with alkylimido and alkylamido surface groups. Using cryogenic and room temperature scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and electron energy‐loss spectroscopy (EELS), it is shown that ripplocations, a form of a fundamental defect in 2D and layered structures, are abundant in this family of materials. Furthermore, detailed studies of electron probe sample interactions, focusing on structural deformations caused by the electron beam are presented. The findings indicate that at cryogenic temperatures (≈100 K) and below a specific dose threshold, the structure of h‐MXenes remains largely intact. However, exceeding this threshold leads to electron beam‐induced deformation through ripplocations. Interestingly, the deformation behavior, required dose, and resultant structure are highly dependent on temperature. At 100 K, it is demonstrated that the electron beam can induce ripplocations in situ with a high degree of precision. 

Extensive literature has been proposed for the analysis of correlated survival data. Subjects within a cluster share some common characteristics, e.g., genetic and environmental factors, so their time-to-event outcomes are correlated. The frailty model under proportional hazards assumption has been widely applied for the analysis of clustered survival outcomes. However, the prediction performance of this method can be less satisfactory when the risk factors have complicated effects, e.g., nonlinear and interactive. To deal with these issues, we propose a neural network frailty Cox model that replaces the linear risk function with the output of a feed-forward neural network. The estimation is based on quasi-likelihood using Laplace approximation. A simulation study suggests that the proposed method has the best performance compared with existing methods. The method is applied to the clustered time-to-failure prediction within the kidney transplantation facility using the national kidney transplant registry data from the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. All computer programs are available at https://github.com/rivenzhou/deep_learning_clustered. 

Abstract Over the past decade, topological insulators have received enormous attention for their potential in energy‐efficient spin‐to‐charge conversion, enabled by strong spin‐orbit coupling and spin‐momentum locked surface states. Despite extensive research, the spin‐to‐charge conversion efficiency, usually characterized by the spin Hall angle (θ_SH), remains relatively low at room temperature. In this work, pulsed laser deposition is employed to fabricate high‐quality ternary topological insulator (Bi_0.1Sb_0.9)₂Te₃thin films on magnetic insulator Y₃Fe₅O₁₂. It is found that the value ofθ_SHreaches ≈0.76 at room temperature and increases to ≈0.9 as the Fermi level is tuned to cross topological surface states via electrical gating. These findings provide an innovative approach to tailoring the spin‐to‐charge conversion in topological insulators and pave the way for their applications in energy‐efficient spintronic devices.