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.

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.

This Review discusses how artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms can be used in combination with X-ray computed tomography to study the composition and the dynamics of microstructures in battery materials with nanoscale resolution.

This perspective analyses the adverse reactions reported for mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in the light of infusion reactions to nanomedicines, which display similar outcomes, suggests possible mechanisms and offers a safety roadmap for vaccine developers.

Double ionic gated transistors enable excellent control of the band structure of atomically thin semiconductors. Perpendicular electric fields as large as 3 V nm⁻¹ can fully quench the gap of bi- and few-layer WSe₂.

A 2D material based liquid-crystal shows an extremely large optical anisotropy factor in the deep ultraviolet region, showing magnetically tunable birefringence.

A dual-ligand passivation system comprising photocrosslinkable ligands and dispersing ligands enables quantum dots to be universally compatible with solution-based patterning techniques.

Nanopatterned materials provide control over mechanical vibrations. This allows for the complete damping of vibrations over more than 5 GHz and for the propagation of hypersonic guided modes at room temperature.

The combination of catalytic platinum particles, nanozymes and a CRISPR-based reaction allows for the quantification of non-coding RNAs at the picomolar range. This assay, CrisprZyme, has a colorimetric readout and works at room temperature without preamplification.

Twisted WSe₂ AB-homobilayers enable the realization of bilayer Hubbard models in the weak interlayer hopping limit.

Two comments analyse the aspects that allowed four nanomedicine start-ups to overcome the biotech valley of death and build timely businesses

Perovskite quantum dots have been proven promising for photonic and optoelectronic applications, particularly, as bright and narrow band emitters for display technology. Despite the advantageous properties, the stability issues have to be resolved to unleash the full industrial potential of perovskite quantum dots in display technology.

Using our company’s CO₂ electrolysers as a model, we describe the challenges involved in incorporating nanomaterial catalysts into industrial-scale electrolysers and suggest ways to more efficiently realize the performance improvements of academic-scale novel nanomaterials at industrial scales.

The recent advent of transition metal dichalcogenides moiré materials is a promising platform for studying correlated electron phenomena and moiré exciton physics.

The transition from a linear ‘take–make–dispose’ economy to a circular economy is gaining momentum. Although there are many opportunities for using nanotechnology to enable circularity, the knowledge gaps related to (eco-)toxicological hazards and the presence of nanomaterials in waste streams constitute significant challenges.