Reviews & Analysis

This Review highlights the fundamental advantages of nanolasers and the engineering challenges for their utilization in several practical applications.

An immunotherapeutic nanoparticle spray may improve post-surgery tumour control.

Recent progress on generating electricity from the direct interaction of carbon nanostructures with flowing, waving, dropping and evaporating water is summarized.

An artificial nanostructure inspired by the sea anemone can be used for efficient removal of a wide range of water contaminants.

In a magnetic tunnel junction, Joule heat increases the voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy effect in the free layer and thereby pushes the amplification gain for microwaves beyond one.

A nanofabricated twisted topological waveguide on silicon platform enables robust guiding of light at telecommunication wavelength.

Applying a radiofrequency voltage to the junction of a scanning tunnelling microscope allows the nuclear spins of single copper atoms to be detected and different copper isotopes to be distinguished.

Single-molecule break-junctions can detect RNA strands without requiring amplification or conversion to DNA with a limit of detection in the attomolar regime.

Engineered nanomaterials are often highly reactive and readily transform to new species. New modelling capabilities incorporate these transformations into estimates of environmental exposure concentrations and associated risks more accurately.

This Review discusses recent experimental and theoretical efforts in electron dynamics in TMDC heterostructures and the relevance of these effects for potential applications in optoelectronic and valleytronic/spintronic devices.

This Perspective discusses design strategies for engineering quantum behavior in electron quantum metamaterials based on van der Waals heterostructures

Particle nanofeatures activate the inflammasome and influence immunity.

This Perspective analyses the infusion reactions triggered by nanomedicine administration and proposes a strategy to improve their mechanistic understanding and to reduce their negative outcomes.

Chemical oscillations emerge during the chemically fuelled self-assembly of a perylene diimide derivative as a result of simple feedback mechanisms.

A simple approach to spontaneously assemble malaria antigens into liposomes generates long-lasting, functional immune responses in mice and rabbits.

This Review summarizes recent progress on enzymatic and microbial hybrid systems for solar-to-fuel conversion, as well as the challenges the field is facing.

Intracellular gold nanoclusters act as photosensitizers, enabling non-photosynthetic bacteria to produce acetic acid from carbon dioxide in a more efficient and durable fashion.

Magneto-photoluminescence experiments reveal the role of dark excitons in the formation of biexcitons and charged biexcitons in tungsten diselenide monolayers.

This Perspective discusses experimental efforts and conceptual frameworks of chemical fuel-driven self-assembly.

The self-driven formation of a surface passivation layer from inorganic ligands explains unique electrical properties of nanocrystalline solids.