Reviews & Analysis

A built-in semiconductor/nanomagnet interface acts as a spin filter in a conventional laser to produce circularly polarized emission without the need for external spin-polarized pumping.

This article reviews recent advances in the application of 2D materials for the detection of light in various frequency ranges.

Spin-dependent phenomena and applications in graphene and other 2D materials are discussed in this Review.

The potential and challenges for electronic applications of graphene and other 2D materials are explored in this Review.

Interference effects in semiconductor quantum structures provide an elegant way to electrically map the strength and direction of spin–orbit fields.

Van der Waals heterostructures consisting of a single MoS₂ monolayer and a single WSe₂ monolayer can be used to form p–n junctions.

The speed and direction of myosin and kinesin motors can be optically controlled by adding a protein domain that changes conformation in response to blue light.

This Review discusses the recent experimental and theoretical findings on polycrystalline graphene and related materials.

Ultrafast, coherent spin dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures can be measured with a scanning tunnelling microscope by using femtosecond pulses of circularly polarized light.

A polymer–lipid nanoparticle with a low molecular weight can preferentially deliver small interfering RNA to endothelial cells, offering an opportunity to treat many diseases.

Massless electrons in graphene exhibit a mass when considered as collective excitations known as plasmons.

Naphthalocyanine nanoparticles offer intense photoacoustic signals for mapping the gastrointestinal tract.

This article reviews the fundamentals and applications of scanning probe lithography, focusing on the methods that offer genuinely lithographic capabilities such as those based on thermal effects, chemical reactions and voltage-induced processes.

Electrical signals can be used to assemble and tune enzymes, resulting in controlled levels of optically, electrochemically and biologically active products.

A half-cell lithium metal battery can cycle with good efficiency at relatively high current density by engineering a nanostructured surface between the negative electrode and the electrolyte.

Spin waves generated by a spin-torque nano-oscillator can be propagated in a magnonic nanowaveguide fabricated next to the oscillator.

A layer of disordered proteins can selectively control the diffusion of particles along a surface.

Spin–orbit torques can switch the magnetization in perpendicularly magnetized films without the need for an external magnetic field.

Moving individual atoms on a surface with the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope now enables the production of artificial atoms and molecules with precisely engineered molecular orbital energy-level diagrams.

The surface temperature of a hot levitating nanoparticle in a rarified gas can be determined from its non-equilibrium Brownian motion.