Editorials in 2023

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognizes a milestone for the entire nanotechnology field.

Adopting a nanoscale approach to developing materials and designing experiments benefits research on batteries, supercapacitors and hybrid devices at all technology readiness levels.

The largest nanoscience and nanotechnology conference in the world took place again after a four-year hiatus.

Ultrathin ferroelectric materials, including perovskites, hafnium oxides, and van der Waals stacks are of increasing interest because they exhibit properties that are hard to achieve in bulk and because of their suitability for low-power miniaturized devices.

Recycling plastics waste into value-added chemicals using efficient and selective novel nanocatalysts promises economic as well as environmental benefits.

Graphene, transition-metal dichalcogenides, MXenes and the other members of the flatland family are becoming a rich playground for chemists, enlarging the range of applications these nanomaterials can be used for.

The passing of Gordon Moore, an Intel co-founder, is a good time to reflect on the achievements of the semiconductors industry and how nanomaterials could allow Moore’s law to outlive its formulator.

Technological progress stems from a mutual appreciation of research and development goals.