Browse Articles

The lack of standardization in the protocols used to assess the physicochemical properties of the battery electrode surface layer has led to data dispersion and biased interpretation in the literature. Here I propose guidelines for investigating it properly — or at least to allow a fair comparison between literature data.

Multiple exciton generation can increase the detectivity in photodetectors but has limited effect in infrared detectors. Now, a strategy for kinetically pumped avalanche multiplication has been demonstrated in colloidal quantum dot-based infrared photodetectors, achieving an 85-fold multiplication gain and ultrahigh detectivity of 1.4 × 10¹⁴ Jones.

A crystal defect design enables β-Li₃N, a ‘hexagonal warrior’ solid-state electrolyte for all-solid-state lithium metal batteries with a long cycle life.

A spintronic diode made from a W/Mn₃Sn bilayer shows broadband rectification at frequencies up to 30 GHz.

Kinetically pumped avalanche multiplication has been demonstrated in a colloidal quantum dot photodetector, achieving an 85-fold multiplication gain. This proposes new opportunities for developing colloidal quantum dot single-photon detectors.

Understanding and adopting an appropriate electrochemistry language will foster constructive collaborations among battery research community members with diverse scientific backgrounds.

The 50th anniversary of its discovery underscores surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) as one of the oldest and most dynamic branches of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The time has come for nanostructure-based SERS to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and overcome current commercialization challenges.

This Review clarifies the charge storage and transport mechanisms at confined electrochemical interfaces in electrochemical capacitors, emphasizing their importance in fast-charging energy storage applications.

In a Mn₃Sn/W epitaxial bilayer, spin–orbit torque induces the coherent rotation of spins, which can couple to microwave currents. Unlike in ferromagnets, the resulting conversion of AC current to DC voltage remains robust at higher frequencies, which may facilitate the development of high-speed electronic devices.

Colloidal liquid metals with gradient heterointerfaces offer a scalable and cost-effective solution to the persistent challenges of thermal management in high-performance electronics.

Lasing from quantum dots has been demonstrated in the previously inaccessible blue spectral region by virtue of carefully engineered Zn-based materials.

This new β-Li₃N solid-state electrolyte demonstrates a vacancy-mediated superionic diffusion mechanism, achieving high ionic conductivity (2.14 × 10⁻³ S cm⁻¹) and effectively suppressing lithium dendrite growth. Its high compatibility with lithium and air stability promises improved safety and performance in all-solid-state lithium metal batteries, making it ideal for advanced energy storage applications.

Atomically intimate assembly of FeO_x-Rh-ZrO₂ dual interfaces by selectively architecting highly dispersed FeO_x on ultrafine raft-like Rh clusters supported on tetragonal zirconia enables highly efficient tandem conversion of syngas to ethanol.

Leveraging X-rays to induce prolonged luminescence (radio-afterglow) and radiodynamic effects from typically inorganic optical agents enables diagnosis and therapy at light-inaccessible tissue depths. Now, a cascade X-ray energy conversion approach is developed to increase the intrinsically low X-ray conversion efficiency of organic molecules for the construction of radio-afterglow nanoprobes for cancer theranostics.

Here, the authors present the design, molecular assembly and mechanistic insights into an organic, biomarker-activatable radiotheranostic nanoprobe for image-guided precision cancer radiotherapy with sensitivity up to a depth of 15 cm in thick tissues.

By using scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy, researchers observe layer-dependent electronic correlations in rhombohedral graphene multilayers at 77 K, revealing the layer-enhanced low-energy flat bands and interlayer interactions.

Single-molecule electrical detections clarify both productive and hidden degenerate pathways of ring-closing metathesis, and enable precise on-device synthesis of a single polymer with single-monomer-insertion-event resolution.

This study reports a fully integrated 128 × 8 optoelectronic memristor array with Si complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor circuits, featuring configurable multi-mode functionality. It demonstrates diversified in-sensor computing tasks and consumes 20 times less energy than GPUs.

The study presents a modular DNA origami-based single-molecule nanosensor that separates sensing from the signal output. It achieves high fluorescence resonance energy transfer contrast and enables tuning of the response window for improved sensor specificity, multiplexing and logic sensing.

This study presents the development of nanodrugs based on bacterial-derived outer membrane vesicles for targeted intervention in nerve–cancer crosstalk, which efficiently enhances pancreatic cancer chemotherapy.