Review Articles

This article reviews the use of quantum tunnelling for sequencing DNA, RNA and peptides, highlighting the potential advantages of the approach and the significant technical challenges that must be addressed to deliver practical quantum sequencing devices.

This article reviews the use of graphene nanodevices for DNA sequencing, highlighting the potential of approaches that involve DNA molecules passing through graphene nanopores, nanogaps, and nanoribbons, or the physisorption of DNA on graphene nanostructures.

This Review discusses recent research efforts to confine and guide light at the nanoscale without using metals.

This Review discusses the advances in synthesis, assembly, ligand treatments and doping that have enabled the fabrication of high-mobility quantum dot solids.

This Review describes the challenges in functionalization of upconversion nanocrystals for applications in multimodal imaging, cancer therapy, volumetric displays and photonics.

This article reviews recent progress in the development of cellular DNA nanotechnology, highlighting key potential applications such as DNA-based imaging probes, smart therapeutics, and drug delivery systems.

This article reviews recent progress in the synthesis and characterization of well-defined subnanometre clusters, and the understanding and exploitation of their catalytic properties, highlighting the potential of such clusters to provide insight into important catalytic processes and to form the basis of novel catalytic systems.

This Review discusses recent developments in photovoltaic and light-emitting optoelectronic devices made from metal-halide perovskite materials.

This Review discusses recent advances towards electric-field control of magnetism in ferromagnetic semiconductors and metals, and in multiferroics.

The merging of supramolecular chemistry and systems chemistry is beginning to unveil the richness of emerging physicochemical properties attainable by exploiting far-from-equilibrium systems, as this Review explains.

This Review discusses recent fundamental advances in hot electron and hot hole science and examines potential usefulness in chemistry and for practical optoelectronic devices.

This article reviews the different strategies and devices that combine nanoscale and microscale materials to bring about faster, more sensitive and reliable diagnostic results in clinical medicine.

This article reviews recent advances in the application of 2D materials for the detection of light in various frequency ranges.

Spin-dependent phenomena and applications in graphene and other 2D materials are discussed in this Review.

The potential and challenges for electronic applications of graphene and other 2D materials are explored in this Review.

This Review discusses the recent experimental and theoretical findings on polycrystalline graphene and related materials.

This article reviews the fundamentals and applications of scanning probe lithography, focusing on the methods that offer genuinely lithographic capabilities such as those based on thermal effects, chemical reactions and voltage-induced processes.

This Review reports the state of the art for silicon nanostructures used in photonics and photovoltaic applications, and highlights the challenges for making silicon a high-performing photonic material.

This Review covers the recent developments in the observation and modelling of magnetic skyrmions, including their topological properties, current-induced dynamics and potential in future information storage devices.

This Review discusses the state-of-the-art in optical trapping at the nanoscale, with an emphasis on some of the most promising advances such as controlled manipulation and assembly of individual and multiple nanostructures, force measurement with femtonewton resolution, and biosensors.