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Aggregated form of single-walled carbon nanotubes can inhibit the neurochemical and behavioural effects induced by methamphetamine, offering a potential treatment for drug addiction and abuse.

Experiments show that the radiative heat transfer between two closely spaced parallel surfaces can be two to three orders of magnitude higher than Planck's law for the far field would predict.

An entangled state of two spin qubits in silicon has been prepared and measured, yielding a violation of Bell's inequality that is the largest achieved in the solid state so far.

Meta-analysis of the literature on quantum dot toxicity using a machine-learning tool helps reveal hidden relationships between material properties and toxicity.

Spontaneous formation of defects in the walls of leaky tumour blood vessels may explain the increased accumulation of large nanoparticles in certain tumours.

Poly(ethylene glycol) helps nanomaterials evade the immune system by modifying the composition of proteins that are adsorbed on the surface of the materials.

Scanning near-field optical microscopy combined with pump–probe spectroscopy can resolve ultrafast dynamics at the nanoscale.

Charge carriers in strongly correlated electron systems can be manipulated electrically in a device made of atomically thin materials.

Two complementary strategies show how to control the spatial propagation of spin waves, thus promising complex and reconfigurable wiring in spin-wave-based circuits.

Metal coordination and π–π stacking interactions drive the assembly of dipeptides into nanostructures with superior optical properties.

Cowpea mosaic virus nanoparticles can induce the immune system to clear metastatic cancers.

The light-powered assembly and disassembly of functionalized nanoparticles creates dynamic nanocavities with built-in selective uptake, reactivity and release.

A theoretical framework that interprets Raman scattering as an optomechanical process can be used to understand, and guide, experiments in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.

With fast, adaptive control over the spin of a single electron, magnetic fields can now be measured at the very limits allowed by quantum physics.

The basic building block of a Hund's metal can be constructed from an iron atom adsorbed on a platinum surface and can be probed with a scanning tunnelling microscope.

By taking advantage of the thermal gradient that is generated in plasmonic systems and by using an a.c. field, plasmonic tweezers can have a large radius of action and can trap and manipulate single nano-objects.

The observation of single-photon emission at room temperature from defects in hexagonal boron nitride sheets opens new opportunities for quantum optics.

Synthetic DNA-labelled polymers can be made to self-assemble on two- and three-dimensional DNA scaffolds in custom routings.

Quantum mechanical wave interference of massive molecules at an atomically thin grating sheds new light on an old question.

An electrical read-out mechanism for magnetic skyrmions that does not require spin-polarized currents could facilitate the use of these small magnetic states in memory devices.