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Information thermodynamics offers a route to measure how effectively a light-driven molecular machine converts energy from absorbed photons into pumped motion.

Artificial-muscle fibres mimic the ordered nanostructures in natural-muscle fibres to achieve promising mechanical and actuation properties.

A frequency filtering method can efficiently remove the autofluorescence background and light scattering during in vivo visible and near-infrared experiments.

Core–shell quantum dots emitting at a wavelength greater than 1,700 nm enable deep-tissue imaging of immune cells and immune structures.

Tilting the substrate after bar-coating of colloidal perovskite nanocrystals facilitates the nanocrystal self-assembly process and enables highly efficient large-area perovskite LEDs.

A strategy is reported for developing heterogeneous catalysts by deriving descriptors for their activity, selectivity and stability.

An artificial spin ice, containing two types of nanomagnets, can perform reservoir computing with minor magnetic field loops and spin wave spectra acting as inputs and outputs, respectively.

A new excitation scheme broadens the choice of colours for the near-infrared excitable photon avalanching nanoscale labels for super-resolution imaging.

A fast laser pulse stimulates the decay in a quantum dot and suppresses the timing uncertainty in the generation of single photons, which substantially improves the coherence of the source.

Anion-selective covalent organic framework (COF) membranes fabricated using laminar assembly and interfacial polymerization exhibit enhanced potential for osmotic power generation.

Nano-antennas generate optical recoil forces that can be used to independently control the direction and rotation of small objects.

A combination of periodic laser patterning, anisotropic thermal etching and endoepitaxial growth enables the realization of monolayer mosaic heterostructures with atomically sharp interfaces.

A preclinical study reports a platform for the generation of dendritic cell-derived nanovesicles with enhanced immunostimulatory function, which demonstrate promising antitumoural activity in mouse models and might overcome some of the shortcomings of early-generation dendritic cell nanovaccines.

Decoration of nanofiltration membranes with catalysts lead to efficient removal and degradation of micropollutants.

Controllably buckling an array of vertical field effect transistors enables intracellular electrophysiological mapping with high spatial and temporal resolutions.

Tiny quantities of heat delivered on demand by discrete quantum excitations expand the horizon of quantum electrical metrology.

A spectacular advance in catalyst synthesis is demonstrated by a two-step process that yields high loadings of single atoms at a kilogram scale suitable for industrial deployment.

Examining nucleic acid delivery in humanized animal models might accelerate nanoparticle optimization and potentially improve clinical translation strategies.

Curvilinear DNA-shaped magnetic double helices enable tunable magnetic field nanotextures.

Mid-infrared pulses stimulate fast neutralization of photocharged colloidal nanocrystals, which suppresses blinking of a single nanocrystal’s photoluminescence.