Reviews & Analysis

Scanning near-field optical microscopy combined with pump–probe spectroscopy can resolve ultrafast dynamics at the nanoscale.

Charge carriers in strongly correlated electron systems can be manipulated electrically in a device made of atomically thin materials.

This article reviews the use of quantum tunnelling for sequencing DNA, RNA and peptides, highlighting the potential advantages of the approach and the significant technical challenges that must be addressed to deliver practical quantum sequencing devices.

This article reviews the use of graphene nanodevices for DNA sequencing, highlighting the potential of approaches that involve DNA molecules passing through graphene nanopores, nanogaps, and nanoribbons, or the physisorption of DNA on graphene nanostructures.

Two complementary strategies show how to control the spatial propagation of spin waves, thus promising complex and reconfigurable wiring in spin-wave-based circuits.

Metal coordination and π–π stacking interactions drive the assembly of dipeptides into nanostructures with superior optical properties.

Nanostructured metamaterials fabricated on nanomembranes can be reconfigured by thermal, electric, magnetic and optical forces resulting in dynamically controlled optical properties.

This Review discusses recent research efforts to confine and guide light at the nanoscale without using metals.

This Perspective discusses materials that can sustain hybrid surface plasmon and surface phonon polaritons for future nanophotonics applications.