Reviews & Analysis

Pufin ID is a Danish start-up commercializing anti-counterfeiting technology based on nanoscale photophyics.

Intrinsically stretchable QD-based semiconducting nanocomposites enable the realization of electronic retina with multispectral response.

Catalytically active, self-propelled microrobots can trap and remove nanoplastics from water.

A clever phononic crystal design produces a wide band gap for hypersonic phonons.

A series of emergent electronic orders are observed in an antiparallel twisted WSe₂ bilayer. The discoveries provide a powerful platform for simulating quantum phenomena in strongly correlated materials.

Sub-molecular spectroscopy enables the real-space study of incoherent and coherent electronic energy transfer in artificial molecular donor–acceptor systems and their dependence on the molecular arrangement.

This Review elaborates on the recent developments and the future opportunities and challenges of fundamental research on semiconductor moiré materials, with a particular focus on transition metal dichalcogenides.

The addition of nanoscale zeolite to Na–FeC_x unlocks the potential of catalysts for selective olefins production in a fixed-bed reactor.

Cryo-electron microscopy uncovers the interfacial failure mechanism of lithium metal anodes at the atomic scale, informing a F-rich solid-electrolyte interface design strategy for highly-reversible solid-state Li metal batteries.

Information thermodynamics offers a route to measure how effectively a light-driven molecular machine converts energy from absorbed photons into pumped motion.

This Perspective suggests a characterization cascade for nanoparticle-based vaccines that takes into consideration the complexity of the materials and of their immunomodulatory responses, providing a roadmap for the preclinical validation of potential vaccine candidates.

Artificial-muscle fibres mimic the ordered nanostructures in natural-muscle fibres to achieve promising mechanical and actuation properties.

A frequency filtering method can efficiently remove the autofluorescence background and light scattering during in vivo visible and near-infrared experiments.

Core–shell quantum dots emitting at a wavelength greater than 1,700 nm enable deep-tissue imaging of immune cells and immune structures.

Tilting the substrate after bar-coating of colloidal perovskite nanocrystals facilitates the nanocrystal self-assembly process and enables highly efficient large-area perovskite LEDs.

A strategy is reported for developing heterogeneous catalysts by deriving descriptors for their activity, selectivity and stability.

An artificial spin ice, containing two types of nanomagnets, can perform reservoir computing with minor magnetic field loops and spin wave spectra acting as inputs and outputs, respectively.

A new excitation scheme broadens the choice of colours for the near-infrared excitable photon avalanching nanoscale labels for super-resolution imaging.

A fast laser pulse stimulates the decay in a quantum dot and suppresses the timing uncertainty in the generation of single photons, which substantially improves the coherence of the source.

Anion-selective covalent organic framework (COF) membranes fabricated using laminar assembly and interfacial polymerization exhibit enhanced potential for osmotic power generation.