This Review illustrates opportunities for the nanophotonics community when adopting machine learning approaches.

This Review analyses the possibilities that a nanomedicine approach offers to tackle COVID-19-induced thrombosis and the associated challenges.

This Review discusses the latest advances in nanopore technologies beyond DNA sequencing.

This critical Review discusses the molecular sieving behaviour of metal–organic framework and covalent organic framework membranes as thin supported layers and mixed-matrix membranes. This behaviour is different from that of classical zeolite membranes.

In multilayer WSe₂, dipolar excitons with Coulomb-bound electron and hole pairs located in every other layer show unique valleytronic superlattice structure and electrical tunability.

Superconducting single-photon detectors are critical for quantum communication, fluorescence lifetime imaging and remote sensing, but commonly operate at very low temperatures. Now, high-temperature cuprate superconducting nanowires enable single-photon detection up to 25 K.

Differential phase contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy probes the electric field distribution across a GaN-based semiconductor heterointerface.

A semirigid stamp and a standard photolithography mask-aligner enable a reliable and scalable pickup and release process for van der Waals materials integration at the wafer scale.

Multiple alternating layers of two-dimensional materials and epilayers are grown on III–N and III–V substrates in a single growth run. Then, each epilayer is harvested by mechanical exfoliation, producing multiple freestanding membranes from a single wafer.

By integrating split ferroelectric capacitors with complementary characteristics in the same memory cell, this architecture tackles the problem of conflicting memory requirements for training and inference, which has long plagued edge intelligence applications.

Since the early 1990s, the intersection of genetics and nanomedicine has found a home in the clinic as one of the game changers of the past decade, holding great promise in fighting diseases by rapidly developing much-needed therapeutic platforms, from cancer to infectious or genetic diseases. And this revolution was just triggered by the amazing evolving world of messenger RNA and its ‘cues’.

Waste containing nanomaterials — or nanowaste — is an emerging safety concern worldwide, warranting specific environmentally sound waste management and regulation.

Technological progress stems from a mutual appreciation of research and development goals.

Let’s motor through the fog of molecular machine terminology, not only by defining our own words clearly, but by embracing the coexistence of multiple meanings in a rational and structured manner.

At Nature Nanotechnology, we want to bring stories of real-world impact of nanoscience research to the attention of the whole community.

Self-assembled monolayers nicely link the history and the future of nanoscience and nanotechnology.