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Molecules have the potential to act as sharp energy filters for electrical currents and could thereby outperform other materials considered for thermoelectric energy conversion. Yet, there is a gap between theoretical predictions and practical implementations in molecular thermoelectricity, and this research roadmap may guide the transition from academic research to valuable technology.
A strategy based on molecular intermixing of two highly miscible components enables the demonstration of high efficiency multiple-component organic solar cells.
Mid-infrared pulses stimulate fast neutralization of photocharged colloidal nanocrystals, which suppresses blinking of a single nanocrystal’s photoluminescence.
Square-centimetre scale, multilayer superlattice structures based on atomically thin two-dimensional chalcogenide monolayers enable the realization of excitonic metamaterials.
Although quantum physics underpins the behaviour of nanoscale objects, its role in nanoscience has been mostly limited to determining the static, equilibrium properties of small systems. This Review describes seminal developments and new directions for the explicit exploitation of quantum coherence in nanoscale systems, a research area termed quantum-coherent nanoscience.
In moiré superlattice van der Waals magnetic materials, competing interactions emerge and can stabilize new magnetic states. Here, stacking-dependent interlayer exchange interactions in small-twist-angle CrI3 bilayers yield an ordered ground state with coexisting ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic regions.
A general versatile approach combining wet-chemistry impregnation and two-step annealing is devised for the scalable synthesis of a library of ultra-high-density single-atom catalysts with drastically enhanced reactivity.
Light-induced contraction in the out-of-plane direction in two-dimensional (2D) hybrid perovskites enables the realization of high-efficiency 2D perovskite solar cells.
A study of gold nanospheres and nanorods shows that, even without internalization, they are very efficient for siRNA delivery and inducing gene silencing in mature plant leaves.
Photoluminescence blinking is a ubiquitous phenomenon that detrimentally reduces emission stability and quantum yield. Now, an all-optical method, which employs ultrafast mid-infrared pulses, can effectively suppress the blinking of single CdSe/CdS core–shell quantum dots.
A combination of quantitative optical spectroscopic techniques and synchrotron nanoprobe measurements enable a visualization of the nanoscale chemical, structural and optoelectronic landscape in halide perovskite devices.
De novo designed peptide with β-hairpin structure assembles to form a β-barrelled nanopore that can detect not only polynucleotides but also polypeptide chains at a single-molecule level.
A DNA nanodevice that selectively modulates the lysosomal protease activity in tumour-associated macrophages, increasing their antigen presentation ability, attenuates tumour growth in vivo.
Nanotube-mediated acquisition of immune cells’ mitochondria by tumour cells is a novel mechanism for immune evasion that can be pharmacologically targeted to potentiate cancer immunotherapies.
Supramolecular arrangement of proteins provides nanoparticles with neutrophil tropism via complement opsonization during an acute inflammation, enabling diagnosis and treatment of acute lung injury.
Dense, short hydrophobic nanochannels have been restacked from two-dimensional quantum sheets to achieve both high areal and volumetric capacitance in thick electrodes under ultrahigh rates.
Diodes exhibit non-reciprocal current–voltage relations, that is, the resistivity depends on the direction of the current flow. Now an array of Josephson junctions with large spin–orbit interaction acts as the superconducting version of a diode, where dissipation-free supercurrent flows in one direction, but not the other.
Neutrophils are the first responders in acute inflammatory events such as acute respiratory distress syndrome and tend to home to lung capillaries during acute inflammation, where they can cause tissue damage by diapedesis and secretion of specific molecules. Here the authors show that nanoparticles coated with agglutinated proteins selectively target activated neutrophils in inflamed lungs and can be used for imaging and therapeutic purposes.
Cancer cells adopt a series of strategies to evade the immune response mounted by the organism against them. Here we find that tumour cells can hijack mitochondria from immune cells by forming physical nanotubes, and suggest that inhibiting this process might represent a potential immunotherapy approach.