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  • News & Views |

    Vibration modes of a single bacterium are detected experimentally by an optomechanical microcavity, providing a new method for vibrational spectrometry.

    • Da Xu
    •  & Yun-Feng Xiao

  • Article |

    Magneto-optical interaction of light with magnetic metasurfaces can give rise to the photonic spin Hall effect such that the light trajectory depends on the polarization of the light. For disordered systems, the probability distribution of the spin-dependent trajectories is a sensitive tool to detect random nanoscale variations in the metasurface.

    • Bo Wang
    • , Kexiu Rong
    • , Elhanan Maguid
    • , Vladimir Kleiner
    •  & Erez Hasman

  • Thesis |

    As the spread of SARS-CoV-2 has triggered worldwide closures of research labs and facilities, Kostas Kostarelos shares his views on what may be going wrong in the fight against COVID-19 and how the nanoscience community could and should contribute.

    • Kostas Kostarelos

  • News & Views |

    Combining single-molecule localization microscopy with flow cytometry and three-dimensional localization enables the high throughput and precise localization of fluorescent molecules in live flowing cells.

    • Jörg Enderlein

  • Article |

    A multimodal imaging approach using a high-density lipoprotein-derived nanotracer with a perfluoro-crown ether payload enables myeloid cell dynamics to be studied in vivo in mouse models of atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction.

    • Max L. Senders
    • , Anu E. Meerwaldt
    • , Mandy M. T. van Leent
    • , Brenda L. Sanchez-Gaytan
    • , Jan C. van de Voort
    • , Yohana C. Toner
    • , Alexander Maier
    • , Emma D. Klein
    • , Nathaniel A. T. Sullivan
    • , Alexandros Marios Sofias
    • , Hannah Groenen
    • , Christopher Faries
    • , Roderick S. Oosterwijk
    • , Esther M. van Leeuwen
    • , Francois Fay
    • , Elena Chepurko
    • , Thomas Reiner
    • , Raphael Duivenvoorden
    • , Lior Zangi
    • , Rick M. Dijkhuizen
    • , Sjoerd Hak
    • , Filip K. Swirski
    • , Matthias Nahrendorf
    • , Carlos Pérez-Medina
    • , Abraham J. P. Teunissen
    • , Zahi A. Fayad
    • , Claudia Calcagno
    • , Gustav J. Strijkers
    •  & Willem J. M. Mulder

  • Article |

    A new method to form Bose–Einstein condensates of quasiparticles based on the rapid decrease in the phonon temperature was proposed and shown experimentally.

    • Michael Schneider
    • , Thomas Brächer
    • , David Breitbach
    • , Viktor Lauer
    • , Philipp Pirro
    • , Dmytro A. Bozhko
    • , Halyna Yu. Musiienko-Shmarova
    • , Björn Heinz
    • , Qi Wang
    • , Thomas Meyer
    • , Frank Heussner
    • , Sascha Keller
    • , Evangelos Th. Papaioannou
    • , Bert Lägel
    • , Thomas Löber
    • , Carsten Dubs
    • , Andrei N. Slavin
    • , Vasyl S. Tiberkevich
    • , Alexander A. Serga
    • , Burkard Hillebrands
    •  & Andrii V. Chumak

  • Article |

    A high-throughput nanoscale 3D microscopy technique, combining imaging flow cytometry with a point-spread function, allows 3D localization measurements in live flowing cells.

    • Lucien E. Weiss
    • , Yael Shalev Ezra
    • , Sarah Goldberg
    • , Boris Ferdman
    • , Omer Adir
    • , Avi Schroeder
    • , Onit Alalouf
    •  & Yoav Shechtman

  • Article |

    Polymers commonly are semiconducting or insulating because of a sizable energy gap in the density of states around the Fermi level. Yet, the phase transition from topologically trivial to non-trivial in on-surface synthesized π-conjugated polymers, due to a change of resonant form, stabilizes narrow bandgaps and bears in-gap zero-energy edge states in the non-trivial phase.

    • Borja Cirera
    • , Ana Sánchez-Grande
    • , Bruno de la Torre
    • , José Santos
    • , Shayan Edalatmanesh
    • , Eider Rodríguez-Sánchez
    • , Koen Lauwaet
    • , Benjamin Mallada
    • , Radek Zbořil
    • , Rodolfo Miranda
    • , Oliver Gröning
    • , Pavel Jelínek
    • , Nazario Martín
    •  & David Ecija

  • Review Article |

    This Review surveys strategies to control chemical reactivity of species under different types of nanoconfinement.

    • Angela B. Grommet
    • , Moran Feller
    •  & Rafal Klajn

  • Editorial |

    The identification and isolation of individuals with COVID-19 can help to flatten the epidemic curve and win us time to wait for the vaccine development and production, and antiviral drug therapies.

  • Article |

    The vibration frequencies of a whole single bacterium can be measured experimentally using an optomechanical disk resonator.

    • Eduardo Gil-Santos
    • , Jose J. Ruz
    • , Oscar Malvar
    • , Ivan Favero
    • , Aristide Lemaître
    • , Priscila. M. Kosaka
    • , Sergio García-López
    • , Montserrat Calleja
    •  & Javier Tamayo

  • News & Views |

    Lipid nanoparticles containing genetic drugs can be bioengineered to tune their biodistribution and induce organ-specific gene regulation.

    • Roy van der Meel

  • Thesis |

    Although we seem to understand how nanoscience can impact the environment, we seem to be far off using nanotechnology for environmental remediation, says Chris Toumey.

    • Chris Toumey

  • Review Article |

    This Review provides an overview of memory devices and the key computational primitives for in-memory computing, and examines the possibilities of applying this computing approach to a wide range of applications.

    • Abu Sebastian
    • , Manuel Le Gallo
    • , Riduan Khaddam-Aljameh
    •  & Evangelos Eleftheriou

  • News & Views |

    Atomically dispersed Rh on N-doped carbon exhibits promising electrocatalytic properties for formic acid oxidation while Rh nanoparticles are inert towards this reaction. The Rh single atoms exhibit high tolerance to CO poisoning compared to Rh nanoparticles.

    • Dohyung Kim
    •  & Matteo Cargnello

  • Letter |

    Phage capsids modified with spatially defined patterns of host cell ligands can act as multivalent binders for the influenza A virus to prevent viral infection.

    • Daniel Lauster
    • , Simon Klenk
    • , Kai Ludwig
    • , Saba Nojoumi
    • , Sandra Behren
    • , Lutz Adam
    • , Marlena Stadtmüller
    • , Sandra Saenger
    • , Stephanie Zimmler
    • , Katja Hönzke
    • , Ling Yao
    • , Ute Hoffmann
    • , Markus Bardua
    • , Alf Hamann
    • , Martin Witzenrath
    • , Leif E. Sander
    • , Thorsten Wolff
    • , Andreas C. Hocke
    • , Stefan Hippenstiel
    • , Sacha De Carlo
    • , Jens Neudecker
    • , Klaus Osterrieder
    • , Nediljko Budisa
    • , Roland R. Netz
    • , Christoph Böttcher
    • , Susanne Liese
    • , Andreas Herrmann
    •  & Christian P. R. Hackenberger

  • Article |

    Atomically dispersed Rh on N-doped carbon exhibits 28- and 67-fold enhancements compared with state-of-the-art Pd/C and Pt/C, despite the low activity of Rh/C. The Rh single atoms exhibit high tolerance to CO poisoning compared to Rh nanoparticles.

    • Yu Xiong
    • , Juncai Dong
    • , Zheng-Qing Huang
    • , Pingyu Xin
    • , Wenxing Chen
    • , Yu Wang
    • , Zhi Li
    • , Zhao Jin
    • , Wei Xing
    • , Zhongbin Zhuang
    • , Jinyu Ye
    • , Xing Wei
    • , Rui Cao
    • , Lin Gu
    • , Shigang Sun
    • , Lin Zhuang
    • , Xiaoqing Chen
    • , Hua Yang
    • , Chen Chen
    • , Qing Peng
    • , Chun-Ran Chang
    • , Dingsheng Wang
    •  & Yadong Li

  • Letter |

    The controlled creation of magnetic skyrmions is a prerequisite for their application in future spintronic devices. While charge currents can induce skyrmions via spin torque, surface acoustic waves can do the same through magnetoelastic coupling of inhomogeneous strain paired with thermal fluctuations.

    • Tomoyuki Yokouchi
    • , Satoshi Sugimoto
    • , Bivas Rana
    • , Shinichiro Seki
    • , Naoki Ogawa
    • , Shinya Kasai
    •  & Yoshichika Otani

  • Article |

    Charge disproportionation in thin molecular films of a metal–organic complex enables the realization of a ternary memristor and binary memcapacitor.

    • Sreetosh Goswami
    • , Santi P. Rath
    • , Damien Thompson
    • , Svante Hedström
    • , Meenakshi Annamalai
    • , Rajib Pramanick
    • , B. Robert Ilic
    • , Soumya Sarkar
    • , Sonu Hooda
    • , Christian A. Nijhuis
    • , Jens Martin
    • , R. Stanley Williams
    • , Sreebrata Goswami
    •  & T. Venkatesan

  • News & Views |

    Nanoparticles covered with a mix of positively and negatively charged ligands aggregate into supraparticles in the lysosomes of cancer cells, disrupting the integrity of the lysosomal membrane and killing the cells without involving any anticancer drugs.

    • Jichuan Qiu
    •  & Younan Xia

  • Article |

    Mixed-charge nanoparticles preferentially assemble inside the lysosomes of cancer cells, which causes lysosomal membrane disruption and lysosome-dependent cell death in cancer but not in healthy cells.

    • Magdalena Borkowska
    • , Marta Siek
    • , Diana V. Kolygina
    • , Yaroslav I. Sobolev
    • , Slawomir Lach
    • , Sumit Kumar
    • , Yoon-Kyoung Cho
    • , Kristiana Kandere-Grzybowska
    •  & Bartosz A. Grzybowski

  • Correspondence |

    • Daniel A. Heller
    • , Prakrit V. Jena
    • , Matteo Pasquali
    • , Kostas Kostarelos
    • , Lucia G. Delogu
    • , Rachel E. Meidl
    • , Slava V. Rotkin
    • , David A. Scheinberg
    • , Robert E. Schwartz
    • , Mauricio Terrones
    • , YuHuang Wang
    • , Alberto Bianco
    • , Ardemis A. Boghossian
    • , Sofie Cambré
    • , Laurent Cognet
    • , Simon R. Corrie
    • , Philip Demokritou
    • , Silvia Giordani
    • , Tobias Hertel
    • , Tetyana Ignatova
    • , Mohammad F. Islam
    • , Nicole M. Iverson
    • , Anand Jagota
    • , Dawid Janas
    • , Junichiro Kono
    • , Sebastian Kruss
    • , Markita P. Landry
    • , Yan Li
    • , Richard Martel
    • , Shigeo Maruyama
    • , Anton V. Naumov
    • , Maurizio Prato
    • , Susan J. Quinn
    • , Daniel Roxbury
    • , Michael S. Strano
    • , James M. Tour
    • , R. Bruce Weisman
    • , Wim Wenseleers
    •  & Masako Yudasaka

  • Editorial |

    The addition of carbon nanotubes to the SIN (‘Substitute It Now’) list has evoked reactions from nanomedicine and nanotoxicology researchers, who ask for a fairer and more recent research-based risk assessment of carbon nanotubes.

  • Article |

    Mechanically robust, centimetre-sized, molecularly thin nanoporous carbon membranes were fabricated via the thermal crosslinking of core–rim structured monomers, offering a high reverse electrodialysis short-circuit current with a giant output power density of 67 W m−2.

    • Xue Liu
    • , Meng He
    • , Dario Calvani
    • , Haoyuan Qi
    • , Karthick B. Sai Sankar Gupta
    • , Huub J. M. de Groot
    • , G. J. Agur Sevink
    • , Francesco Buda
    • , Ute Kaiser
    •  & Grégory F. Schneider

  • Article |

    Interfacing TMD monolayers with graphene enables the demonstration of bright, single and narrow-line photoluminescence arising solely from TMD neutral excitons.

    • Etienne Lorchat
    • , Luis E. Parra López
    • , Cédric Robert
    • , Delphine Lagarde
    • , Guillaume Froehlicher
    • , Takashi Taniguchi
    • , Kenji Watanabe
    • , Xavier Marie
    •  & Stéphane Berciaud

  • Review Article |

    This Review highlights the progress made towards the development of neuromorphic devices and architectures enabled by low-dimensional nanomaterials

    • Vinod K. Sangwan
    •  & Mark C. Hersam

  • Article |

    A ferritin nanoparticle that delivers the preS1 domain of the large hepatitis B surface protein to two specific myeloid cell populations provides a therapeutic vaccination strategy for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B.

    • Wenjun Wang
    • , Xiaoxiao Zhou
    • , Yingjie Bian
    • , Shan Wang
    • , Qian Chai
    • , Zhenqian Guo
    • , Zhenni Wang
    • , Ping Zhu
    • , Hua Peng
    • , Xiyun Yan
    • , Wenhui Li
    • , Yang-Xin Fu
    •  & Mingzhao Zhu

  • Letter |

    Knowledge and control of the dynamic response in micromagnetic configurations is important both for understanding their fundamental properties and for their use in technological applications. Pump–probe magnetic laminography now unveils the evolution of the magnetization in a three-dimensional system with nanoscale resolution.

    • Claire Donnelly
    • , Simone Finizio
    • , Sebastian Gliga
    • , Mirko Holler
    • , Aleš Hrabec
    • , Michal Odstrčil
    • , Sina Mayr
    • , Valerio Scagnoli
    • , Laura J. Heyderman
    • , Manuel Guizar-Sicairos
    •  & Jörg Raabe

  • News & Views |

    Cell-derived extracellular vesicles are important intercellular communicators involved in many biological processes and diseases, including cancer and cardiovascular diseases, but, thus far, how they navigate within complex extracellular matrices has been poorly understood.

    • Gregor Fuhrmann

  • Editorial |

    Nature Nanotechnology will work with authors and reviewers to establish the best practises to make data available and usable by a wide scientific community.

  • Article |

    Extracellular potassium levels in the brain can be correlated to neural activity. A selective potassium sensor, in which cations other than potassium are shielded by a membrane, can measure potassium concentration changes in the brain of freely moving mice undergoing epileptic seizures.

    • Jianan Liu
    • , Fangyuan Li
    • , Yi Wang
    • , Limin Pan
    • , Peihua Lin
    • , Bo Zhang
    • , Yanrong Zheng
    • , Yingwei Xu
    • , Hongwei Liao
    • , Giho Ko
    • , Fan Fei
    • , Cenglin Xu
    • , Yang Du
    • , Kwangsoo Shin
    • , Dokyoon Kim
    • , Sung-Soo Jang
    • , Hee Jung Chung
    • , He Tian
    • , Qi Wang
    • , Wei Guo
    • , Jwa-Min Nam
    • , Zhong Chen
    • , Taeghwan Hyeon
    •  & Daishun Ling

  • News & Views |

    The sensitivity and visual acuity of the eye of the shrimp L. vannamei are achieved via an exquisitely optimized nanostructured tapetum leading to a very high reflectivity in an ultrathin layer. Understanding the properties of such natural nanostructures can lead to the design of artificial photonic materials with enhanced properties.

    • Lukas Schertel
    •  & Silvia Vignolini

  • Letter |

    The spontaneous relaxation of misfit strain achieved on graphene-coated substrates enables the growth of heteroepitaxial single-crystalline films with reduced dislocation density.

    • Sang-Hoon Bae
    • , Kuangye Lu
    • , Yimo Han
    • , Sungkyu Kim
    • , Kuan Qiao
    • , Chanyeol Choi
    • , Yifan Nie
    • , Hyunseok Kim
    • , Hyun S. Kum
    • , Peng Chen
    • , Wei Kong
    • , Beom-Seok Kang
    • , Chansoo Kim
    • , Jaeyong Lee
    • , Yongmin Baek
    • , Jaewoo Shim
    • , Jinhee Park
    • , Minho Joo
    • , David A. Muller
    • , Kyusang Lee
    •  & Jeehwan Kim

  • Article |

    The low carrier mobilities of TMDCs pose a challenge for applications in high-speed photodetection. Integrating vertical two-dimensional heterostructures with photonic waveguides allows the intrinsic speed limitations to be overcome and record-high photodetection bandwidths to be achieved.

    • Nikolaus Flöry
    • , Ping Ma
    • , Yannick Salamin
    • , Alexandros Emboras
    • , Takashi Taniguchi
    • , Kenji Watanabe
    • , Juerg Leuthold
    •  & Lukas Novotny

  • Article |

    Light-sensitive azobenzene compounds can be engineered to stably partition into the plasma membrane, thus causing its thinning in the dark and relaxation upon light stimulation. In neurons, the resulting light-dependent change in membrane capacitance induces a transient hyperpolarization followed by rebound depolarization and action potential firing.

    • Mattia Lorenzo DiFrancesco
    • , Francesco Lodola
    • , Elisabetta Colombo
    • , Luca Maragliano
    • , Mattia Bramini
    • , Giuseppe Maria Paternò
    • , Pietro Baldelli
    • , Mauro Dalla Serra
    • , Lorenzo Lunelli
    • , Marta Marchioretto
    • , Giorgio Grasselli
    • , Simone Cimò
    • , Letizia Colella
    • , Daniele Fazzi
    • , Fausto Ortica
    • , Vito Vurro
    • , Cyril Giles Eleftheriou
    • , Dmytro Shmal
    • , José Fernando Maya-Vetencourt
    • , Chiara Bertarelli
    • , Guglielmo Lanzani
    •  & Fabio Benfenati

  • Letter |

    Gauge fields in condensed matter give rise to nonreciprocal transport and topological non-trivial states. In an on-chip experiment, multi-mode optomechanical interactions generate a magnetic gauge field for nanomechanical motion and yield phonon transport with a nonreciprocal phase.

    • John P. Mathew
    • , Javier del Pino
    •  & Ewold Verhagen

  • Article |

    The surface of CdSe nanoplatelets can exhibit a paramagnetic behaviour that influences the polarization properties of the optical emission.

    • Elena V. Shornikova
    • , Aleksandr A. Golovatenko
    • , Dmitri R. Yakovlev
    • , Anna V. Rodina
    • , Louis Biadala
    • , Gang Qiang
    • , Alexis Kuntzmann
    • , Michel Nasilowski
    • , Benoit Dubertret
    • , Anatolii Polovitsyn
    • , Iwan Moreels
    •  & Manfred Bayer