Reviews & Analysis

A nanoelectromechanical system made from a nanobeam embedded in a phononic crystal and coupled to a pair of superconducting microwave oscillators can couple hypersonic sound quanta at 0.425 GHz and light quanta with high coherence.

This Perspective discussed the best practices for reporting lab-scale performance metrics in battery papers.

Far-field photons can be coupled to acoustic graphene plasmons with near 100% efficiency and used to acquire infrared spectra of thin, subnanometre-layer samples.

Fluid instabilities in chalcogenide glasses can be exploited to self-assemble optical metasurfaces on various template substrates over a large area.

On the route towards a useful quantum computer, we must not ignore the materials challenges facing us nor the opportunities that materials science may provide for disruptive new qubits.

The asymmetry of electron–hole diffusion velocities in intrinsic graphene can give rise to efficient photocurrent generation.

Responsive polymersomes enhance the action of STING-targeting cyclic dinucleotides in cancer therapy.

Nanoparticles can affect vascular integrity, promoting cancer cell intravasation and extravasation and metastasis in murine breast cancer models.

A deep learning approach enables up to nine bits of information to be encoded per diffraction-limited area.

DNA origami unravels the role of target spacing in antibody binding.

Ultrasoft, flexible nanoelectronics enables electrical monitoring and chemical alteration of the behaviour of stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes.

This review discusses relationships between the material properties of three-dimensional graphene structures and their environmental performance.