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We introduce an advisory panel to develop content on the relationship between technology and society.

Failure is an unavoidable element of the process that leads to discovery and it should be embraced even in early education, says Deji Akinwande.

Chris Toumey revisits the 2003 exchange of opinions between Eric Drexler and Richard Smalley, which was one of the most colourful disagreements in the history of nanotechnology.

A terbium-based molecular magnet, containing four nuclear quantum states, or a qudit, experimentally validates the Grover algorithm for database searches.

This Perspective describes the fundamental principles of nano-opto-electo-mechanical systems and their applications in communication, sensing and signal transduction.

Two hydrogelators form a dual network of orthogonal nanofibres that can be externally addressed independently to activate two different functions.

Removing nuclear spins by means of isotopically purified silicon, and introducing magnetic field gradients by means of microfabricated ferromagnets yields electron spin qubits with enhanced fidelity and fast electrical control.

Single-molecule force spectroscopy shows that donor–acceptor synthetic oligorotaxanes possess a more robust and dynamic response to external loads than natural proteins.

Capillary-filling measurements in a hybrid silica–graphene nanochannel reveal the fast water transport mechanism in a single graphene nanochannel.

Controlling the geometry of each dielectric element of a nanostructured surface enables frequency-dependent group delay and group delay dispersion engineering, and the fabrication of an achromatic metalens for imaging in the visible in transmission.

A field-effect MoS<Subscript>2</Subscript> transistor with a negative capacitor in its gate shows stable, hysteresis-free performance characterized by a sub-thermionic sub-threshold slope.

Under specific conditions, molecular monolayers dissipate power more than they heat up at one end of a molecular junction, validating theoretical predictions of Peltier cooling.

Negative capacitance effect in a ferroelectric-based gate stack provides an effective solution for hysteresis-free steep-slope  operation in a MoS₂ field-effect transistor.

Quantum control on an isotopically enriched Si spin qubit is demonstrated with ultrahigh gate fidelities and long coherence times —  even in the presence of sizeable charge noise.

Indentation in bilayer epitaxial graphene induces its reversible transformation into a diamond-like structure with stiffness and hardness comparable to diamond.

A calorimetry technique with picowatt sensitivity enables the experimental observation of cooling in molecular junctions.

A comprehensive study of excitonic processes in Ag-doped CdSe nanocrystals shows the conversion of nonmagnetic Ag⁺ dopants into paramagnetic Ag²⁺.